That should be totally fine for 4k video playback.
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That's good to hear. Thank you :)
I've watched 4K Youtube on that cpu without issues.
Should be overpowered, only thing I'd recommend is having 2 channels of ddr4.
it will be enough for YT playback, since streaming services don't support PCs
I was thinking of running jellyfin, and have been experimenting with it for the last few days.
What do you mean by streaming services not supporting PCs? I've had both HBO Max and Prime running perfectly on Linux.
by not supporting PCs, I meant 4K/Dolby Atmos/HDR streaming (except netflix, which gives you HDR and Atmos if you use their shitty windows app)
Oh, I see. To be honest, I never really cared about HDR, but as far as I know it's not supported on Linux at all.
@crunchpaste
@mrquantumoff
HDR is working on some games AFAIK, but last I checked that was about it so far
Work *is* being put into it though
The important thing you want to look out for is hardware decoding.
This iGPU supports h264 and h265, so you should be fine with pretty much everything you throw at it. It does not support AV1, but adoption will take quite some time so I wouldn't bother.
When AV1 eventually gets mainstream you can just put a cheap (non-"gaming") GPU in there for 50$ or so.
So yea, you will be fine.
Video playback needs less hardware than you think. $35 Raspberry Pi's with a little ARM SoC can easily play 4k.
Really you're more limited by what codecs you plan to play and whether the iGPU supports hardware decode for them. For example, on the 2400ge you mentioned, the Vega 11 graphics core is built in GCN 5.0.. Looking at other specs sites, hoping they're accurate, show that Vega 11 supports hardware decode of most major video formats that you'd try to play.. If there's hardware support you'll have zero issues.
For any codecs not hardware supported you'll be CPU core limited, however, I think you'll find even Zen+ cores in an APU are capable of more than you think.
Thank you for the detailed explaination.
Somehow missed the 11 and for a second I thought you wanted to put a Vega 7 in a mini PC just for video playback 😅
But a Vega 11 should be fine. It's mainly about the video acceleration chip a GPU has built in and less about its overall power in computing.
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