Choosing a GPU for Your Homelab: iGPU vs Used Enterprise Card vs Consumer Card
“Do I need a GPU for this” comes up constantly in homelab planning, usually attached to one of two very different goals: hardware-accelerated transcoding for Plex or Jellyfin, or running local AI workloads like Ollama or Stable Diffusion. Those two goals point at completely different hardware, and buying for one when you actually need the other is one of the more common expensive mistakes in this hobby. Here’s how to figure out which category you’re actually in before you spend anything. ...