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Observatory => General Discussion => Topic started by: Aelfwine on April 01, 2019, 01:35:44 PM

Title: Using an eGPU with Observatory?
Post by: Aelfwine on April 01, 2019, 01:35:44 PM
Has anyone tried running Observatory using an eGPU? If so, does it make a noticeable difference in image/stack processing time?

Thanks,

Carl
Title: Re: Using an eGPU with Observatory?
Post by: Sander Berents on April 07, 2019, 12:30:29 PM
I didn't. I doubt right now it will make a big difference though because the current bottlenecks in the image processing pipeline are disk I/O and some parts that are still running on the CPU. Observatory uses OpenCL internally and I think you may start seeing a difference when it gets support for Metal, because that is also when I intend to remove some of the current inefficiencies that occur when applying multiple adjustments to an image (a left-over from the time one could apply the adjustments in any order).

Sander