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Hardware Question about Power BI
what you need most is RAM. 32 GB is not bad. 64 GB will make your Power BI fly.
Hi FeVar
Thank you for reaching out microsoft fabric community forum.Yes,You're right: Power BI mostly relies on RAM and single-core performance. The Intel Core Ultra 7 258V is a newer chip with good architecture and solid clock speed, so it should handle Power BI well—even for large datasets.
A few key points:
- 32GB RAM is great. 64GB helps for really large models but isn't essential.
- More cores don’t always help—Power BI often uses just 1 core for Power Query, DAX, and visuals.
- Higher clock speed (GHz) is more important than the number of cores.
- A fast SSD also improves load and refresh times.
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what you need most is RAM. 32 GB is not bad. 64 GB will make your Power BI fly.
Hi Ibendlin,
Yes I know RAM does the trick in Power BI. But can the number of cores 4,8 or16 on a iCore 7 or 9 chip also affect performance?
I heard Power BI uses 1 core only while it runs the power query, data model or DAX.
Also that clock speed xGHz, the higher the better, makes it process faster too.
