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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by miller_joe on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:39PM (#20308981)
There might be meaningful differences in the hardware encode/decode for video. In the Plex community for example it seems like Intel CPUs are the best bet. They support a lot of codecs and can service multiple transcode streams. Consumer Nvidia GPUs are limited to 2. I don't think Plex supports hardware transcoding on AMD Ryzen or discrete GPUs at all right now. I haven't really looked into why yet, and could likely just be a software support issue in Plex.

This, unfortunately, would be a deal breaker for my home-server use case, although I'm very happy AMD is finally competitive again, overall.

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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by toast0 on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:16PM (#20309218)
The Zen2 chips being released and discussed here don't have a GPU. The Ryzen 3000 series APUs being released soon are using last year's Zen+ CPU architecture; and are only 4 cores, so not super comparable to a $2000 Intel CPU :)
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