SightHound + Intel Avoton?

[beeftube]

Hey there Sighthounders,

Anybody have any experience with SightHound on the Intel Avoton processors, specifically the Octa-core model? I'm considering putting together a dedicated VM host -- one of those VMs would be dedicated to running SightHound -- but I'm curious how much these processors could realistically handle.

For a frame of reference, I'm currently monitoring a 1080p stream and a VGA MJPEG stream on an Ivy Bridge i5-3750k. My CPU sits around 14% utilized on my desktop -- granted, I have a few other things running on the same machine. That's pretty decent.

I'm planning on expanding to potentially 3 x 1080p streams and 2 x VGA streams. If I use dumb math and scale this linearly (probably not accurate at all), I'd expect somewhere between 40-50% CPU usage.

I understand that a Core i5 is a beefier processor than the Avoton -- however, I'm still curious if anybody has any real world experience with them. I'd love to know if I could dedicate something like 4 Avoton cores to a SightHound VM and have acceptable performance with a few 1080p streams before I spend any money on such a thing. The power usage of the Avoton processor compared to the Core i5 is appealling.

Any experience?

[Devin]

Hi beeftube,

I cant speak to the Intel Avoton processors specifically, though this website is useful in comparing processor power: http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

We have a few examples of machines (with specs) running various amounts of cameras, with which you can compare against, at https://www.sighthound.com/support/system-requirements.

Hope that helps,

-Devin

[beeftube]

Thanks as always Devin. I'd seen the real world examples page, it's helpful if a bit subjective. I wonder if there could be some kind of standardized page so people could input their hardware and how many camera streams they were processing with it -- to sort of widen the field so to speak. I realize that everybody's installation is going to be different depending on a lot of factors, but it would be interesting to see compiled results.