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GTX 1060 6GB on x2 PCI-E 3.0 for video transcode - bottleneck?

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Should be fine, transcoding shouldn't require anywhere near full bandwidth - and especially if you're just lightly transcoding here and there I wouldn't worry about it.

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I got a server, for future upgrades, I'm limited on PCI-E slots. I'm wondering what kind of penalties I might see if any If I run the GPU on x2 PCI-E 3.0 lanes. For gaming yeah, I see obvious concerns. However this GPU is used exclusively for (rare) video transcoding for a PLEX/Emby/Jellyfin server. Is transcoding video going to saturate those lanes enough to cause major issues? The CPU with be a 5950x soon once I get it installed so Im also thinking in the rare cases I need to transcode, the CPU can just suck it up and get it done. But I do already have GPU. Anyone know how much bandwidth transcoding video will use?

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Should be fine, transcoding shouldn't require anywhere near full bandwidth - and especially if you're just lightly transcoding here and there I wouldn't worry about it.

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