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mattyj1085

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Has anyone used a Tesla GPU in a server to offload H265 encoding?

I see you can pickup a M60 16,GB for under £200 and was hoping to use it on a CCTV server to offload the encoding.
 
mattyj1085 said:
Has anyone used a Tesla GPU in a server to offload H265 encoding?

I see you can pickup a M60 16,GB for under £200 and was hoping to use it on a CCTV server to offload the encoding.
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The GM204 that the M60 is based on is the dual NVENC version which I don't know how compatible it is.. Plenty of people used the single cpu M40's in Unraid with success.

The other aspect of the GM204 is the H265/HEVC encoder is very limited as its the first time Nvidia supported it (just)..

The popular Plex streamers options for lots of multiple streams with power efficiency were the GTX 1660 Super (TU116 so has much newer and fully featured HEVC encoding) or the Intel Quick Sync UHD 770 upwards..

The GTX 1660 is £100 or so second hand and needs patching in linux to remove the stream limit..
 
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Which CCTV system are you planning on using? Generally HD630 upwards does everything most people need for effectively zero cost, the Tesla P4 8GB (GP104 aka Pascal) is also stupidly cheap and very capable, more so than the M60 with better NVENC/NVDEC support, bonus for also passive cooling - if you have the air flow - and no external power required. Don't forget the Quadro M2000 as an option, they go for bugger all and despite what NVIDIA will tell you, supported HEVC, just not tone mapping for 10bit to 8bit which is less of an issue for CCTV.
 
Avalon said:
Which CCTV system are you planning on using? Generally HD630 upwards does everything most people need for effectively zero cost, the Tesla P4 8GB (GP104 aka Pascal) is also stupidly cheap and very capable, more so than the M60 with better NVENC/NVDEC support, bonus for also passive cooling - if you have the air flow - and no external power required. Don't forget the Quadro M2000 as an option, they go for bugger all and despite what NVIDIA will tell you, supported HEVC, just not tone mapping for 10bit to 8bit which is less of an issue for CCTV.
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You have to carful with Nvidia ‘passive’ cards. They are only passive in the sense that they rely on a couple of hundred watts of static pressure/directed airflow within the chassis.
 
jigger said:
You have to carful with Nvidia ‘passive’ cards. They are only passive in the sense that they rely on a couple of hundred watts of static pressure/directed airflow within the chassis.
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I mean, if you ignore the part where I clearly said 'if you have the airflow' and the fact that with the workload being discussed will result in only the NVENC chip doing any significant work, so the actual GPU die is basically idle, then i'd agree you have a point :)
 
Avalon said:
I mean, if you ignore the part where I clearly said 'if you have the airflow' and the fact that with the workload being discussed will result in only the NVENC chip doing any significant work, so the actual GPU die is basically idle, then i'd agree you have a point :)
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Which outside of running a server or highend workstation designed to take with these types of cards most people won’t.
 
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