Choice of a PC for CARLA

[sebastiennadler]

Hi everybody, especially CARLA's developper.

I am wondering what would be the best choice to use CARLA simulator for a small laboratory (with a limited budget). I'am wondering if this configuration Memory PC Intel Core i5-12400F 6X 4.4 GHz, 16 Go DDR4 RAM, 1TB M.2 SSD, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16GB, Windows 11 Pro (https://amzn.eu/d/eBW0lkw) would be optimal ?

Can I have an advice of a specialist to choose a hardware to run CARLA ?

Thank you so much,

Sébastien Nadler
R&D projects Leader
ASTEK

[RaviBeagle]

I am not a specialist, only a beginner, but from my usage experience I can do a comparison.
I think primarily its the memory size and capability of the GPU that matters than CPU and CPU memory.

My GPU is:

0 NVIDIA RTX A3000... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 47C P8 15W / N/A | 722MiB / 6144MiB | 8% Default

https://technical.city/en/video/Radeon-RX-6800-vs-RTX-A3000-mobile

NVIDIA RTX A3000 has 6GB GDDR memory and I am able to run CARLA 0.9.12 with EPIC settings. Of course the laptop fan is running all the time and it gets heated up a lot. A desktop with proper cooling should work better.