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yoshihirok
Post Prodigy
10 years ago

Hardware Sizing for Power BI Desktop ?

Are there the information of Hardware Sizing for Power BI Desktop ? I want to know the information for sizing for the computer for Power BI Desktop.   Power BI Desktop include SQL Server Analysis ...
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  • yoshihirok's avatar
    yoshihirok
    Post Prodigy
    10 years ago

    Hi, smoupre.

     

    The document seem to minimum requirement for Power BI Desktop.

     

    I want to the document for more performance for Power BI Desktop.

    like How about CPU L2 cache, How about CPU NUMA, etc.

     

    Regards,

    Yoshihiro Kawabata

    • Greg_Deckler's avatar
      Greg_Deckler
      Community Champion
      10 years ago

      Well, Desktop is just a client program for building reports. I run it on my Surface 3 Pro and Surface 4 Pro and it is very responsive. If you throw lots of hardware at it, it will be faster but I am not aware of any "these are the perfect system specs for Power BI Desktop".

      • yoshihirok's avatar
        yoshihirok
        Post Prodigy
        10 years ago

        Hi, smoupre.

         

        Yes, Power BI Desktop is Desktop client program.

        I run it on my Surface Pro 4.

         

        And, Power BI Desktop have SQL Server Analysis Services - Tabular Server in itself.

        My PC's Task Manager snapshot below

         

         

        Does Power BI Desktop's SQL Server Analysis Services support NUMA CPUs ?

        Does Power BI Desktop's SQL Server Analysis Services support over 64 GB memory ?

        Does Power BI Desktop's SQL Server Analysis Services support over 8 CPU physical cores ?

        and so on.

         

        Now, Memory module became so cheap.

        Now, CPU have a lot of physical cores.

        Now, Powerful workstation seems to build for Power BI Desktop.

         

        Regards,

        Yoshihiro Kawabata.