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by bane 281 days ago
You may want to check that your Xeon may already support hardware encoding of AV1 in the iGPU. I saved a bundle building a media server when I realized the iGPU was more than sufficient (and more efficient) than chucking a GPU in the case.

I have a service that runs continuously and reencodes any videos I have into h265 and the iGPU barely even notices it.
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jazzyjackson 281 days ago
Looks like Core Ultra is the only chip with integrated Arc GPU with AV1 encode. The Xeon series I was looking at, the 1700 socket so the e2400s, definitely don't have iGPU. (The fact that the motherboard I'm looking at only has VGA is probably a clue xD)

I'll have to consider pros and cons with Ultra chips, thanks for the tip.

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jeffbee 281 days ago
What recent Xeon has the iGPU? Didn't they stop including them ~5 years ago?
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