I'm taking down my big Supermicro server to save energy and moving Plex/Jellyfin/*arr to a spare 10th gen Intel NUC with SSDs. Performance is fine for DirectPlay media to my SHIELD and mobile devices, but the onboard GPU power is limited and struggles to even transcode some 1080p media – let alone 4K. Does anyone have experience using eGPUs in a Thunderbolt chassis with a NUC and can you share what worked or didn't work for you in terms of hardware and configuration?
Edit: this is an i7-10710U with NVMe storage and 32GB of RAM, running Windows 10 with all the latest drivers directly from Intel.
I edited the post to mention that this is Windows 10, but I'm not at all against installing Arch instead if it improves performance.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/
Take a look, at the bottom there's a way of seeing if it's used.
You should be golden, you should be able to handle it trivially, especially with your chipset.
Oh wtf, hmm, I don't know, let me check online, never tried on windows.