Since Mezzmo now supports Intel Quick Sync and NVidia NVENC, I'm interested in exploring adding this option for adding some horsepower to my Mezzmo server.

I am interested to know if anyone has any insight into what I should look for in an NVidia card?

I've started here:
https://help.elgato.com/customer/por...nc-technology-

And ended here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ocessing_units

And it seems that there is no real information on what I should select as a card. Kepler? Maxwell? Pascal? Does it matter?

Does the amount of video RAM matter? Does the processing speed even really matter, since this may be a very light load relative to rendering game graphics?

Essentially I want low power, low heat, even fanless if possible, with good performance, without spending $800 on a video card. My media server has a pretty good CPU and 16GB of RAM, and it is dedicated to Mezzmo on Windows Server 2016, so I would be looking at this to offload the video transcode processing, really.

As I understand it, some cards only support 2 simultaneous transcoding operations, some support 4.

For this kind of specialized niche, there's really not much in the way of guidance that I can find with a search. Does anyone have any links or tips?

Thanks!
hsbrown2