Maybe, but I wasn't thinking of Intel's profit. The question was what might be a bigger selling point in a home lab, QuickSync for transcode related tasks (your Plex/Jellyfin machine for example, which would also work with most Nvidia GPUs and some AMD ones), or OOB manageability for your entire home lab especially if it's composed of multiple machines and IP KVMs quickly become cumbersome.
You would need an actual GPU, though. Massively increasing cost, power usage etc. without providing any real value in return for many use cases and AFAIK HW transcoding with Plex doesn't even work properly with with AMDs iGPUs?
The N100 can transcode 4k streams at ~20w while costing barely more than a Raspberry Pi.
Yeah, I’d love to use AMD cpus for my Plex/Homelab/VM/unraid system but when you’re building one for home use, every watt matters and an Nvidia GPU, while nice, is hard to justify just for transcodes.
I feel like my Dad saying “turn off the damn lights” now that I gotta pay the ‘light bill’ on a machine that runs 24/7 with spinning disks.
