I have a mostly unused RTX A2000 6GB if you're interested in something that new?

Andib:

I have a mostly unused RTX A2000 6GB if you're interested in something that new?

Note that the patch to remove encoding limits on consumer-grade cards works beautifully - https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch , might make the $100 budget much easier.

yumcimil:

Note that the patch to remove encoding limits on consumer-grade cards works beautifully - https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch , might make the $100 budget much easier.

Suggestion: Go a bit gruntier on the normal compute side of things than that if you can stretch to it. The transcoding will be fine, but everything else won't exactly sing.

And Audio transcoding, which happens often, is done on CPU.. not GPU.

Trunks2:

yumcimil:

 

Note that the patch to remove encoding limits on consumer-grade cards works beautifully - https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch , might make the $100 budget much easier.

 

Thanks, I've been doing more research and I think my best bang for buck is going to be getting an Intel Mobo & CPU (I'm currently amd) as the quick sync feature on their chips sounds quite powerful for transcoding, even the budget Celeron G6900 should be better than my current setup (rx550)

Alternatively, you could consider an Intel discrete video card like the A380. Probably offers better encode/decode capabilities than the G6900.

It'd be "interesting" to try and do it with a discrete Intel card. Very character-building, I'm sure you'd learn a lot.

I've got a P620 that I'd sell for $100 if you're keen.