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Qwweb
By Qwweb
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Hey I was just wondering if anyone had experience with using ArcGIS and if so, what impacts the render times of data sets. I am currently at university and am running with a 8 year old laptop that renders a 52MB raster file in around 10-15 seconds when moving about (panning and zooming). In the next few years I am looking at file sizes that will wander into the range of 50-100GB of floating point cluster data (LIDAR and raster).

I was planning something to the tune of:

7740X

32GB RAM

GTX 1080 or 1080ti

But I am unsure of how ArcGIS allocates resources to hardware.

Thanks for any help in advance!

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honestly the 7740x will force you to get a more expensive mother board for only a marginal increase in performance, so if I were you I would just go for a 7800x or a 7700k. either go all out or save the money

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Maybe an r7 1700?

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5 minutes ago, QuantumBit said:

Maybe an r7 1700?

it depends on what other kinds of workloads he will be running.

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This is probably going to depend on which versioning of Arc you end up running this in as well as whether you end up on ArcGIS Pro or not, but in my experience, ArcMap 10.5 tends to stress the CPU a bit more than GPU.  (Running a i7 3770 with AMD HD7500 at the office).  When running ArcMap with a 9 GB GeoTiff Raster as the background, HWMonitor tends to report several cores getting above 70% usage (although not all) and GPU usage below 50%

 

I think this will probably change with ArcGIS Pro as that has built in support for DirectX and OpenGL acceleration.  Same GeoTiff on ArcGIS Pro will push the GPU usage above 50% an dI usually hit a GPU memory buffer limit...

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59 minutes ago, Qwweb said:

But I am unsure of how ArcGIS allocates resources to hardware.

Just went through a quick LAS Dataset ArcGIS Exercise (small file size) in ArcMap 10.5 with HWMonitor cleared out to see where the most activity occurred.  GPU utilization stayed at or below 20% however the CPU utilization ranged from 75 to 87% on the Cores.   

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