How is Blue Iris 6 with Intel Dedicated GPUs?

[Abula]

Hi,

I been a user of blue iris for more than 5 years, until i moved to NxWitness, but interested on doing a new Blue Iris 6 build, in the past intel iGPUs were the way to go in terms of being so efficient with QuickSync, although there were some that did believe that dedicated Nvidia GPUs were a good option as long as efficiency wasnt the goal.

Lot of things have happen since i did my last Blue Iris build, specially there were no Intel dedicated GPUs, i see in PLEX servers that they like a lot the lower end dedicated GPUs like Intel Arc A310 out of very efficient cards and much more capable than intel iGPUs, while still being very efficient.

So im wondering how is Intel Dedicated GPUs working for Blue Iris? is it worth it? or still a intel iGPU would be the best route?

 

[VorlonFrog]

Since the introduction of substreams for motion detection and alerting some time back, the choice of GPU has become less crucial. Intel QuickSync isn't really so much of a factor any longer. But seriously, there are more well-informed BI users here. Wait and see what a few of them say in the morning.

 

[wittaj]

As mentioned above, substreams is way more efficient and in fact many systems become unstable using hardware acceleration now and it is no longer recommended to use.

You would be wasting your money on a graphics card and the electricity to run it.

Using the camera AI or upgrading cameras slowly to ones with AI would be a wiser spend of the money.

The only time you would need a card for BI is if you were creating your own AI models and you had so many cameras using AI that the computer actually choked and crashed.

 

[Abula]

Thanks for both replies.

If hardware acceleration isn't recommended anymore, thus no need for Intel QuickSync or Nvidia Cuda, etc., does this mean that its better to build around AMD than Intel for a dedicated Blue Iris Server?

 

[wittaj]

The use of substreams opened up the possibility of running BI on all types of computers that it couldn't run efficiently on before.

So yes, you could build around AMD if that is your preference.

 

[Bruce_H]

Thanks for both replies.

If hardware acceleration isn't recommended anymore, thus no need for Intel QuickSync or Nvidia Cuda, etc., does this mean that its better to build around AMD than Intel for a dedicated Blue Iris Server?

I have three systems running on AMD platform, 1 of them is just using the internal AMD GPU with 6 cameras and no issues both CPU and GPU are very low usage even with the built in AI in V6!