works strangely well for plex and has a strange perk within a windows server 2019 dc hyperv environment.
I purchased this for plex transcoding within an r7610.This machine is also a hyper-v host to my homelab. I'm mentioning this as it comes into play later in the review.
It installed easily, windows took note of it instantly, however I did still need to download the drivers from nvidia's website, which was easy enough to install.
Initially there was a Nvidia qvs 310 in the machine with this k10, however I found that the system tried to use both gpu's at the same time ( k10 and the qvs) which actually ended up bottlenecking the k10.
I pulled the qvs out, and i have found something that I can't quite explain. Unfortunately, there aren't any drivers for actually viewing the performance or use of the k10, and even using speccy or gpu-z still do not show any sort of metrics HOWEVER every single VM in my environment is using literally any of my cpus. I have no idea why this is, as this is not a co-processor, but it is the case for me.
This system does NOT support h265 transcodes, but it appears to be a powerhouse for h264 and I would actually recommend this to someone who wants to transcode h264,and happens to have a server capable of powering and cooling a dual slot card like this.
This card is not the transcode king for plex, in the sense that it is unable to transcode anything aside from h264, however the fact that it has 2 dedicated chips for transcoding media means that it does what it does well. I literally could not beat the performance to price for this card, and find it to be a great value if you're not yet in a place in your life to drop the 350 that you need spend to get a quadro p2000 like the Plex community wont shut up about.