Cheap GPU for HEVC/x265 transcoding

Alun

I want to convert around 2.5TB of video to HEVC/x265 using Handbrake but my current desktop CPU (i5-4460) doesn't support hardware HEVC encoding and is therefore pig slow, so I was looking around for a cheap as possible add-on GPU, second-hand preferably, to speed things up. Any suggestions as to what to look for? It's only a temporary measure so I don't want or need some fire breathing multi-fanned monster.

Skerries

from what I can see you would need at least a GTX950 for dedicated support

here is a GTX960 for €60

https://www.adverts.ie/graphics-cards/msi-gtx-960-2gb/17911930

ED E

Forget it.

The point would be to save some space yeah? Well transcoding is a bad idea for once, using an NVidia GPU to do it another bad idea (it can only do HEVCLite for lack of a better description). If you dont have the CPU horses to use ffmpeg properly (unaccelerated) then don't bother.

K.O.Kiki

Skerries wrote: »

from what I can see you would need at least a GTX950 for dedicated support

here is a GTX960 for €60

https://www.adverts.ie/graphics-cards/msi-gtx-960-2gb/17911930

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/technical/video-nvenc.html
Looks like you need a 1050 or newer.
€90 in CEX

On the plus side, it uses less power than GTX 960.