Would an eGPU improve S/Spy performance?
Ben & Co,
I noticed that today's release of 10.13.4 supports external GPU (eGPU). Would S/Spy benefit from this? For machines with Thunderbolt3, would this maybe be more cost effective than replacing the entire machine?
"External GPUs provide extra graphics processing power for graphics-intensive applications. eGPUs are able to accelerate apps that use Metal, OpenGL. and OpenCL. "
thanks in advance.
I noticed that today's release of 10.13.4 supports external GPU (eGPU). Would S/Spy benefit from this? For machines with Thunderbolt3, would this maybe be more cost effective than replacing the entire machine?
"External GPUs provide extra graphics processing power for graphics-intensive applications. eGPUs are able to accelerate apps that use Metal, OpenGL. and OpenCL. "
thanks in advance.
Comments
Any additional cameras beyond 16 will need to be proceed by the CPU, and in this case the performance of the CPU becomes relevant.
So, @rdforbes, if you are using many more than cameras than 16, then you will certainly get a big increase in performance capability with a 6-core CPU vs a 4-core CPU. The other area in which you will benefit from a 6-core CPU is if you are frequently streaming multiple cameras simultaneously via SecuritySpy's web interface.
To view cameras from one Mac on a different Mac, please see this section of the user manual: SecuritySpy as remote viewing software.
As for an eGPU, as far as I can tell, there is no indication that Macs can take advantage of hardware-accelerated video encoding/decoding on eGPUs, so I don't think that SecuritySpy would benefit from this.