Upscaling video takes days, is this normal?

[raverke95]

I had a Full HD movie in my collection with an overall bad picture quality.
Reading around, I was tipped about Topaz video AI.
I installed this on my M2 Max MacStudio and let him do the trick.

This conversion gave a very well output, but it took around 5 days to do this.

Never did this upscaling with AI tools before. The movie playing time is about 2 hours.
I was wondering if this 5 days processing time is normal?

[Selur]

Not a Mac user.
Assuming the movie has 2hrs@25fps and it takes 100hrs to convert,.. so it's converting with 0.5fps.
That seems slow assuming it's not cpu only but uses some ai chips, but comparing it to a current NVIDIA GPU on Windows.
Looking at a benchmark os an M3 Max, which should only less than 20% faster iirc.:

Topaz Video AI v5.0.0
System Information
OS: Mac v14.03
CPU: Apple M3 Max 128 GB
GPU: Apple M3 Max 96 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 12.76 fps 2X: 07.77 fps 4X: 02.79 fps
Iris 1X: 08.39 fps 2X: 04.90 fps 4X: 01.86 fps
Proteus 1X: 12.93 fps 2X: 08.66 fps 4X: 02.35 fps
Gaia 1X: 03.24 fps 2X: 02.42 fps 4X: 01.83 fps
Nyx 1X: 05.12 fps 2X: 05.09 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 11.14 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 12.07 fps APFast: 53.47 fps Chronos: 04.42 fps CHFast: 07.24 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 13.44 fps

source: https://community.topazlabs.com/t/video-ai-5-0-x-user-benchmarking-results/67354/9
the speed might be correct.

You can run the benchmarking (Process > Benchmark, or, Ctrl/Cmd + B) and compare it to the results in that thread to know for sure,...

Cu Selur