CPU power needed for DSDPlus

[ronenp]

What cpu power needed to decode n smoothly DSDPlus with RTLSDR dongle ? on a notebook ?
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[br0adband]

Can't speak for anything less than a Core 2 Duo (P8700 @ 2.53 GHz here) but when I'm doing a decode with DSD+, be it P25/DMR/MOTOTRBO/NXDN/etc, I see the decoder using 5-8% CPU and that's in situations with both slots/channels being decoded for voice content simultaneously; one slot/channel is about 4-5% typically, and this is with SDR# providing the audio signal. If you're just using a true discriminator tap to DSD+ I'd guess it should be about the same without the overhead of the SDR program on top.

I've seen reports from other people that use DSD+ with Atom-powered Netbooks without issues so it may work just fine with those, I just don't own such hardware for testing purposes. I have an older Pentium-M laptop around here someplace but I don't use it much anymore, could break it out and copy over my SDR# folder (where all my SDR-related stuff is located) and do some testing if needed, but I'd hazard to guess it would still be able to handle it just fine.

If you're using such a machine for multiple things at the same time then obviously it won't do as well, but dedicating a Netbook for decoding purposes alone should be workable. Any CPU made in the past 4-5 years should easily be able to handle DSD+ without issues (Intel Atoms and AMD Zecate APUs, low end Intel Celerons and Pentiums, AMD APUs, etc).

 

[racingfan360]

Can confirm that I can run multiple instances of DSD+ easily on a Intel Atom N450 1.66GHz running WinXP, but that's running with a tapped scanner as input, not a dongle.

DSD performance on this same netbook wasn't great when running on WinXP, but worked perfectly running ubuntu.

Anybody have any experience of running DSD+ on a windows tablet running Win 8 or RT? I could see that working well out and about with a scanner/usb sound card.