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Re: [OM] News from Topaz

Subject: Re: [OM] News from Topaz
From: Wayne Shumaker <om3ti@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 07:50:32 -0700
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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