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marg

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Photoscan Peformance on Dell server without GPU
« on: September 25, 2015, 11:25:04 AM »
Hi,
just wanted to know if anybody has got experience running photoscan for aligning and point cloud generation on a server with no GPU. The server is a Dell r520 with 2*6 core Xeons with HT. It also features 96 GB of RAM. It will be running Ubuntu. How will the performance of this system compare to a regular desktop machine with dedicated GPU (like an i7 GTX 980 combo with 16 GB RAM)
Any ideas?

Alexey Pasumansky

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Re: Photoscan Peformance on Dell server without GPU
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2015, 06:51:08 PM »
Hello marg,

GPU is used only for the depth maps estimation (sub-step of Build Dense Cloud stage), so the presence of GPU will not give any effect on the Align Photos stage.
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Alexey Pasumansky,
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Re: Photoscan Peformance on Dell server without GPU
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2015, 11:05:29 AM »
So does that mean that particular step (which is very important for me) will not work at all, or will it just be slower?

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Re: Photoscan Peformance on Dell server without GPU
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2015, 04:00:29 AM »
Just slower than the same machine with a high speed GPU. But it may be faster than some machines with GPU.

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Re: Photoscan Peformance on Dell server without GPU
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2015, 09:19:23 AM »
Ok, I'll try it then, thank you!