Thanks for the clarification, Wayne, but I believe I am SOL. Xeon W3550 and
X5680 are both antiquated, it seems, and my hope that 24GB RAM combined
with Quadro M2000 would be sufficient was side of the mark.
Piers
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, 14:50 Wayne Shumaker, <om3ti@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 11/28/2023 12:56 AM, Piers wrote:
>
> >This (that Topaz will now focus efforts on Photo AI rather than the
> >individual tools) is what Topaz told me when I asked about upgrades to
> >Gigapixel etc.
> >
> >So I opted for the attractive Black Friday pricing on PhotoAI, and
> >downloaded many GBs of installer. On two PCs. To no avail - read the small
> >print, PhotoAI requires a CPU able to execute AVX commands (whatever they
> >are) as well as running the appropriate OS, with a capable GPU, and having
> >square miles of disk space. Rules out both PCs I have available.
> >
> >Don't waste your time as I did (srefund seems to be on offer, so I didn't
> >waste my money, at least).
> >
> >Piers
>
> Unlike past sharpening methods, all the new stuff is using some form
> of neural filter technique. AVX, "Advanced Vector eXtensions", and a
> GPU are critical for the math behind neural nets. It is just not possible
> to do well without that hardware, and writing code to mimic them on a
> basic CPU would not make sense, as the processing would turn one
> minute into an hour (my exaggerating...).
>
> AVX has been here since 2011, Sandy Bridge. AVX2 since 2013.
> How old is your PC?
>
> Maybe you need to check if there is a bios setting to enable it?
>
> WayneS
>
>
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