I've recently been tasked with cleaning up point cloud data (terabytes of it), mainly for processing speed (currently "an issue", saying it's taking weeks). The ultimate goal is to process these clouds pretty much daily looking for changes (very stretch goal), but I've been given a budget to source a PC ($10k, seemingly WAY more than I could ever need), and I want to make this thing purpose built for this specific task.
Anyhow, the primary issue this PC will theoretically resolve is processing these point clouds as quick as possible, as exporting takes a long time. I am currently using a Surface laptop to test some stuff, and it's insanely slow on demo files (obviously), but it appears to be SSD limited.
What is the primary limiting reagent? I see I/O mentioned a lot, but is that RAM, drives, GPU <-> CPU communication? Seems like these issues are resolved by AMDs newest ZEN chips, especially if core speed isn't primarily relevant.