Quick Sync is Intel's hardware video encoder, built into the iGPU. It's why a $150 Intel box can transcode Plex streams that would pin a much beefier AMD chip, which has no equivalent. Every machine here has it. The little N-series parts sip power while juggling a few streams; Core and Ultra chips take on many more. Sorted by idle draw, because a media server never clocks off.
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