CPU and GPU benchmarks

[Super_Saffer]

Interesting stuff! I have a few questions:

What sort of performance could I expect from an Nvidia 970m with 6GB DDR5 Ram?

How can I test that photoscan is using the GPU?

How many CPU cores should I disable for this card? Just 1?

Should I use the Intel 4600 gpu, built into my i7?  As far as I know, it uses system RAM.

I have http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8278s-clevo-p170sma-p-6985.html

Thank-you!

[igor73]

You can check the performance of the card in the Agisoft  console.  Its reported there once the dense cloud has finished processing.  The recommnedation is to diable 1 core per GPU.  So in your case disable 1 core.  By default one core should already be disabled.  For fast cards such as 980 and Titans the recomendation is to disable all cores as the GPU is faster than the CPU, at least that is how i have understod it. 

No idea what performance your card has.  980 is around 900 milion samples per sec i have herd so a bit less than that.  Test it and report back.   You can also disable  all cores and test the  same data set again and see if you get an iprovement. 

[Super_Saffer]

Will do!

My laptop also has a build in Intel HD 4600 gpu.  Should I enable this as well?

[Super_Saffer]

You can check the performance of the card in the Agisoft  console.  Its reported there once the dense cloud has finished processing.  The recommnedation is to diable 1 core per GPU.  So in your case disable 1 core.  By default one core should already be disabled.  For fast cards such as 980 and Titans the recomendation is to disable all cores as the GPU is faster than the CPU, at least that is how i have understod it. 

No idea what performance your card has.  980 is around 900 milion samples per sec i have herd so a bit less than that.  Test it and report back.   You can also disable  all cores and test the  same data set again and see if you get an iprovement.

Also, which numbers should I be looking at? Testing now.  I already noticed that Photoscan was using the Intel4600, instead of the 970m.  Changed that in the NVIDIA control panel, and it's running off the 970m now.  I've disabled 2 cores, and am testing with 52 cameras, that are geo-referenced. Testing a high accuracy dense cloud.  I'll disable only 1 core next, and see what the difference is.

[UPDATE]  With 2 cores disabled it completes the task in 1991.04 seconds.  With 1 core disabled it completes the task in 1837.46 seconds.

[igor73]

Try to disable all the cores and see what happens.  How many million samples per second do you get? The console will report that is you scroll up a bit. 

[Super_Saffer]

With all cores disabled, and 53 cameras it builds a high quality dense cloud in 1722 seconds, and at 595.855 samples per second.

With 1 core disabled, and 53 cameras it builds in 2075 seconds, at 539.855 samples per second.

Does this mean that my GPU is faster than my CPU?  Should I leave all cores disabled?

[igor73]

Yes i think you have a fast enough GPU to leave all cores disabled.  You seem to get better performance that way.   Very good result for a laptop. 

[Super_Saffer]

Wow! The new 900m series is within comparable distance to the desktop cards.  I've been very impressed with its gaming ability so far.

Can you explain to me how the processing works?  I see that even with all cores disabled the CPU still gets used.

[igor73]

Sorry , only know how to use the software but sill learning.  The developers have to answer that.  Alexey maybe can explain a bit more? 

[Wishgranter]

the CPU need to prepare data for GPU... adn it need to move it to GPU.

The M version of Nvidia is now almost at 80-90% to the desktop counterpart... seach on http://www.anandtech.com/tag/gpus

[Super_Saffer]

the CPU need to prepare data for GPU... adn it need to move it to GPU.

The M version of Nvidia is now almost at 80-90% to the desktop counterpart... seach on http://www.anandtech.com/tag/gpus

Great, thanks!

Ja, I've seen how close the performance gap is getting.  Great news for us mobile workers!

[mwittnebel]

Dear Community

I have started to crate a table for recording the results of this thread. Maybe you could create there a good overview for all Agisoft Users. (maybe you could also write down your experience in other wiki topics/pages)

http://wiki.agisoft.com/wiki/Hardware

[Wishgranter]

hi MWittenebel
here its almost al together so just look from beginning for numbers...

[nazg]

Dear Community

I have started to crate a table for recording the results of this thread. Maybe you could create there a good overview for all Agisoft Users. (maybe you could also write down your experience in other wiki topics/pages)

http://wiki.agisoft.com/wiki/Hardware

It would be even better if you said what is the meaning of the numbers, because it's not obvious that they are million samples/sec. To be honest it took me sometime to figure it out.
I will try to launch a test with our new dual k5200 setup to add a new input in the table.

Best,

[bairlangga]

Hi, I am new to the forum, this will be my very first post and i choose to revive this "necro" thread in the hope that it would be updated every time. Since i believe it is one of the utmost important topic for processing in agisoft. Knowledge is power, and processing power IS power.

Anyway, due to inherent randomness in workload and workflow i suggest from now on to use PugetBench data and flow to standardize the result and makes it apple to apple comparison. Here is my result on my laptop with AMD Ryzen 5980HS 32GB RAM and RTX3080 Laptop (16GB VRAM) running on Windows 10, internal GPU disabled in Metashape..

PugetBench Standard
Agisoft Metashape Professional Version: 1.8.5
CPU: AMD64 Family 25 Model 80 Stepping 0, AuthenticAMD
Number of GPUs Found: 2
GPU Model(s): AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (gfx90c), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU
Project: Rock Model
Align Photos: 32.0
Build Depth Maps: 17.9
Build Dense Cloud: 16.0
Build Mesh from Dense Cloud: 27.9
Decimate Mesh: 4.6
Build Texture: 24.7
Total Processing Time: 123.1
Project: School Map
Align Photos: 27.7
Build Depth Maps: 54.9
Build Dense Cloud: 41.4
Build Tiled Model: 241.6
Build DEM: 2.7
Build Orthomosaic: 48.1
Total Processing Time: 416.4

PugetBench Extended
Agisoft Metashape Professional Version: 1.8.5
CPU: AMD64 Family 25 Model 80 Stepping 0, AuthenticAMD
Number of GPUs Found: 2
GPU Model(s): AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (gfx90c), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU
Project: Park Map
Align Photos: 668.5
Build Depth Maps: 891.4
Build Dense Cloud: 806.5
Build Tiled Model: 3240.0
Build DEM: 36.8
Build Orthomosaic: 676.1
Total Processing Time: 6319.3
Project: School Model
Align Photos: 484.1
Build Depth Maps: 515.6
Build Dense Cloud: 989.1
Build Mesh from Dense Cloud: 192.2
Decimate Mesh: 44.8
Build Texture: 335.2
Total Processing Time: 2561.0

Please continue this thread. If i found positive feedbacks I will also post some other hardware combination results mainly from my other PC.