PC requirements

ScannedReality Studio requires a PC that fulfills the following specifications:

PC requirements
	Minimum	Recommended
Graphics card	GTX 1000 series or later Nvidia card, having 12 GB memory	RTX 3000 series or later Nvidia card, having 16 GB memory
Processor	Any modern CPU (with the standard x86-64 architecture)	Modern 16-core CPU (with the standard x86-64 architecture)
RAM	16 GB	32 GB
USB ports	Depending on cameras used ¹	Depending on cameras used ¹
Storage	SSD with high sustained write speed (depending on cameras used) ²	SSD with high sustained write speed (depending on cameras used) ²
Operating system	Windows 10 or later, or Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ³	Windows 10 or later, or Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ³

We recommend using a high-end CPU and GPU to minimize processing times. Notice that for video processing to run at full speed, 16 GB or more of GPU memory are required.

¹ Depending on the type and number of cameras used, the PC needs to have sufficient suitable USB ports to connect all cameras. Please see the documentation page for the camera type that you plan to use for details. In particular, be aware that USB ports may share bandwidth internally, which means that the number of cameras that can be used may be lower than the number of available USB ports.

² For recording videos, one or more disks with a sufficient sustained write speed to write the data of all cameras are required. Please read the important note below on what to watch out for when evaluating disks.

To determine the required write speed of the disk, see the documentation page for the camera type that you plan to use. This speed depends on the number of used cameras as well as on their settings, particularly the image resolution and frames-per-second.

Modern NVMe SSDs are sufficiently fast for recording MJPEG streams of 10 Azure Kinect or Femto Bolt cameras at their highest resolution. Should you have slower disks, it might be worth considering a RAID configuration to increase their overall speed.

Important

When choosing a disk, make sure to check for its sustained write speed, which in-depth reviews of the disk will typically test for, but which might not be clear from the disk’s marketing.

Many disks advertise a high write speed while not stating clearly that this speed only applies to non-sustained workloads. They are unable to keep this high speed up over longer periods of time, soon falling back to a very slow write speed.

While this behavior is irrelevant for typical office or gaming tasks where it is not necessary to write high volumes of data at once, it is strongly relevant for recording high-bandwidth uncompressed video data as ScannedReality Studio does, making such disks unsuitable for this task.

³ Due to camera SDK limitations, Femto Bolt cameras can so far only be used on Windows.