DeepLabCut Workstation Entry Model (June 2025 Edition)

This is the optimal workstation configuration for DeepLabCut, which is widely used in animal behavior analysis and neuroscience research.

DeepLabCut handles high-resolution videos and large amounts of image data, so the VRAM (video memory) on the GPU is important. By using the GPU, learning and inference processing becomes faster than when using only the CPU.

Computer Hardware:
Ideally, you will use a strong NVIDIA GPU with at least 8GB memory. A GPU is not necessary, but on a CPU the (training and evaluation) code is considerably slower (10x) for ResNets, but MobileNets are faster (see WIKI). You might also consider using cloud computing services like Google cloud/amazon web services or Google Colaboratory.

Reference: How To Install DeepLabCut — DeepLabCut

This configuration uses the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K, which provides a good balance between core count and clock speed, as well as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX5070 12GB.

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