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Agisoft Metashape => General => Topic started by: Ludwig Hilger on September 07, 2016, 10:28:53 AM

Title: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: Ludwig Hilger on September 07, 2016, 10:28:53 AM

Hello,

we have been running Photoscan Professional on the following system for the past two years:

- 12 core i7-3970X @ 3.5 Ghz
- MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760)
- AMD Radeon R9 200 / HD 7900 Series
- 64 GB RAM
- 1000 W power supply

I am planning to substitute the AMD for a 8GB GTX 1080. Does that make sense to you or does that not fit to the other components and does the software already support the new Nvidia?

thank you!

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: slawomirkrolewicz on September 07, 2016, 11:33:06 AM

Hi,

you can used ssd disk to improve performance (for example Samsung SAMSUNG NVME SM951 512GB);
Best Regards,
SK

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: Alexey Pasumansky on September 07, 2016, 12:11:23 PM

Hello Ludwig,

We have tested GTX 1080 on some sample projects and the performance compared to Radeon HD7970 is improved on about 20-25% (http://wiki.agisoft.com/wiki/Hardware). However, more VRAM will allow to handle high-poly models more smoothly in the Model view.
By my experience, GTX 980Ti is the most effective in terms of performance/price. It may be also reasonable to use a couple of older graphic cards (like GTX 780Ti or Radeon R9 290x) to improve the performance.

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: Ludwig Hilger on September 07, 2016, 12:51:44 PM

Alexey, thank you very much! This will also save money!

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: Ludwig Hilger on September 07, 2016, 12:58:31 PM

is it possible and/or will it be worth it to keep the AMD and run both the r9 and gtx 980ti at the same time? The MSI has two graphic card slots...

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: Alexey Pasumansky on September 07, 2016, 02:12:30 PM

Hello Ludwig,

I think it could be quite problematic to have both AMD and NVIDIA cards installed at the same time as it could affect the overall system stability.

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: GrinGEO on September 07, 2016, 07:23:58 PM

Could be interesting to make run 2x GTX 1060 6 GB Ram. They are low price and very good and have a very low power consumption compared to AMD Radeon.

Driving 2 of these should give your very good performance.

btw your CPU is a Six Core with 12 Threads...

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: Ludwig Hilger on October 11, 2016, 02:32:05 PM

Hello,
i have put in the GTX 980Ti and it runs beautifully. It turns out that I have a spare GTX 660. Does it make sense to put it in additionally?

thank you!
Ludwig

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: Ludwig Hilger on October 20, 2016, 10:59:21 AM

any thoughts? Sorry if this is a noob question....

Title: Re: How to most efficiently update this system?
Post by: Alexey Pasumansky on October 20, 2016, 12:19:22 PM

Hello Ludwig Hilger,

You can use another GPU for additional boost during the depth maps estimation process.