# Best hardware for mapper

**URL:** <https://community.pix4d.com/t/best-hardware-for-mapper/18609>\
**Category:** PIX4Dmapper\
**Created:** [June 19, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/best-hardware-for-mapper/18609 "2021-06-19T17:57:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![alessandrogiordano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@alessandrogiordano](https://community.pix4d.com/u/alessandrogiordano)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/best-hardware-for-mapper/18609/1 "2021-06-19T17:57:44Z")

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Hi, need to upgrade elaboration speed of thermal image processing to render 3d ortho and thermal representation.  
I’m with the idea to buy a big dell poweredge with an important xeon CPU, after I saw GPU is not used to much in elaboration… I’m in something wrong? There are some better solutions? Thank you for the help.

AGasset.

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**Author:** ![Nikoleta\_Dimopoulou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Nikoleta\_Dimopoulou](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Nikoleta_Dimopoulou)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/best-hardware-for-mapper/18609/2 "2021-06-21T12:33:51Z")

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Hi Alessando,

It is tough to give you a straightforward answer. The performance of the processing depends on many different factors and only once tested, we could give you an honest answer. I highly recommend you reading our article [Hardware and Pix4D](https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018823651--Hardware-and-Pix4D) and [https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/202559519-Hardware-components-usage-when-processing-with-Pix4Dfirst](https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/202559519-Hardware-components-usage-when-processing-with-Pix4Dfirst). You’ll learn a lot about all the factors. Also, you find a link to a tool with which you will be able to compare base processing speed between similar builds and components. I would also suggest having a look also in the articles below:

- [https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/202557289-System-requirements-Minimum-and-recommended-computer-specifications](https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/202557289-System-requirements-Minimum-and-recommended-computer-specifications)

- [https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002439383-Computer-requirements](https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002439383-Computer-requirements)

Best,

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Milanes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@Andrew\_Milanes](https://community.pix4d.com/u/Andrew_Milanes)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/best-hardware-for-mapper/18609/3 "2021-06-21T23:28:33Z")

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Review [this article from Puget Systems](https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Pix4D-207/Hardware-Recommendations) as well as their other Pix4D articles. It will tell you everything you need to know. I would not get a Xeon CPU. AMD Ryzen or Threadripper processors are much faster / cheaper than Xeon for Pix4D Mapper. A mid-level nVidia RTX 3000 series GPU would be sufficient as well.