From the course: Photogrammetry for Product Design and AEC

Computer hardware requirements for photogrammetry

From the course: Photogrammetry for Product Design and AEC

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Computer hardware requirements for photogrammetry

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll cover computer hardware requirements for photogrammetry, both in general and specific to the package we'll be using in this course, Metashape. The key components that we want to pay attention to when specing a system for photogrammetry are the amount of RAM and the graphics card. And in both of those cases, bigger is better. In terms of an operating system, recommendations for Metashape include a 64-bit version of Windows 7, Service Pack 1 or later, macOSX Mojave or later, or a 64-bit version of Debian/Ubuntu with a core library version of 2.13 or greater. The developers of Metashape recommend either an Intel Core i7 processor or an AMD Ryzen 7 processor. While Metashape and photogrammetry in general will work on integrated graphics cards, you'll get a lot better performance with a discrete graphics card. And for Metashape, the recommendations include an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 6 series or greater with CUDA support or an AMD Radeon R9 series or later with OpenCL 1.1. And whether we're thinking about Metashape specifically or photogrammetry in general, the more CUDA cores or shader processors you have, as well as the more VRAM you have, the better your performance will be. In terms of RAM, 32 gigs is the recommended amount for Metashape but you can get by with less. And essentially the amount of RAM will cap the number of photos you're able to process in a photogrammetry project. So for example, if you have four gigabytes of RAM, you'll be limited to around 30 to 50 photos. If you have 16 gigabytes of RAM, you'll be limited to about 300 to 400 photos and so on. Those are some key guidelines for computer hardware specs for working in Metashape but this should also easily apply to most other photogrammetry packages as well.

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