# Low processing speed despite powerful machine

**URL:** <https://community.pix4d.com/t/low-processing-speed-despite-powerful-machine/23366>\
**Category:** PIX4Dmapper\
**Created:** [July 26, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/low-processing-speed-despite-powerful-machine/23366 "2022-07-26T08:04:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![cprendes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@cprendes](https://community.pix4d.com/u/cprendes)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/low-processing-speed-despite-powerful-machine/23366/1 "2022-07-26T08:04:16Z")

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Good morning:

We are using a work station for the data processing of our multispectral camera Micasense RedEdge. The workstation has a Xenon i9, NDVIA RTX A2000, SSD hard disk and 16 GB RAM. Theorically these characteristics are more then enough to process the data, however the speed is really low (i.e: example, we spend 3 days to procces a flight with 5800 images). Is there any reason why Pix4D is not taking all the advantage of our machine? I mean some configuration/driver issue we could review in order to fix the problem?

Thanks in advance

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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:** [July 26, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/low-processing-speed-despite-powerful-machine/23366/2 "2022-07-26T13:15:19Z")

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Hi @cprendes,

The following article shows the minimum and recommended hardware and software requirements.

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I would suggest for very large projects (1000 - 2000 images at 14 MP)at least 64 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD Free Space. The 16 GB RAM I would say is not enough. Also PIX4Dmatic is recommended for large projects like the one you are referring to. Have you tried processing in PIX4Dmatic?

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:** [July 27, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://community.pix4d.com/t/low-processing-speed-despite-powerful-machine/23366/3 "2022-07-27T00:01:08Z")

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Your workstation is not nearly powerful enough to process larger projects. I just processed a micasense RedEdge-P project with 8,500 images. It took about 5 hours. I have a virtual workstation with the following specs: 56 cores AMD EPYC CPU, 128gb memory, Tesla T4 GPU, NVME SSD drive. It’s not nearly as fast as the high-end workstations recommended by Puget Systems, but it works well.