Rendering speed with mini PCs and Video Deluxe. Observations.

Hardware: Ryzen 7 8745H, Radeon 780M iGPU, 24 GB DDR5 5600, NMVe SSD 2 TB. The following benchmark is relative, based on one project file (30 minute length, videos, images, titles and many image collages) that was rendered under H.265 with default settings at 1920x1080.

Hardware was under $800 CND (~550 USD) before the RAM etc. price spikes.

CPU only = 48 minutes
multi-GPU with anti-interface filter enabled = 33 minutes
multi-GPU (hence hardware acceleration) = 7 minutes

Anti-interface filter is only needed for interlace scanned videos, turned on here as to gauge its impact on rendered time.

Conclusion, cheap hardware based on AMD mobile platform renders a 30 minute project in 7 minutes. More than acceptable performance. No need for the latest and greatest CPU and GPU.