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Review on πŸ’» PNY Quadro P400 Graphics Card by Jason Gopinath

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Huge improvement in video encoding speed

I bought it for one reason only: hardware video encoding. A pain in the southernmost region to work out the ffmpeg commands to complete the task, but once that was done there was a huge speed improvement. FYI:=============# Create a "HWtranscode" function function HWtranscode() { for f in *.ts; # nividia hardware transcoding do ffmpeg -hwaccel cuvid -i "$f" -vcodec h264_nvenc -profile:v 2 -g 30 -qp 26 -c:a ac3 "${f%.ts}.mp4 "; done}============= As far as using it as a graphics card, it seems to be enough to power two of my 24 inch Dell monitors. I can't find any other specific improvements. The tiny keys required are also a problem in the southernmost region. Update September 2018: No issues and I use it occasionally to control a 42" Visio TV as well as two Dell computer monitors. I noticed that someone commented on the quality of the video encoding. This is controlled by encoding options. You can do anything from low quality and high speed to high quality and low speed. I tried something in between. These are the cables I use. I needed a 10 foot and a 6 foot cable. They work and are relatively thin. I tried some others that did NOT work. DP-DVI Cable 10ft Laptop Computer Video Cord to TV or Projector 2-Pack - Black

Pros
  • Weight
Cons
  • Some minor issues