Does Select By Location use graphic card hardware acceleration?

Bud — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:02:42 GMT

I’m trying to learn more about why Select By Location performs better than spatial SQL queries.
Why are spatial SQL queries so much slower than Select By Location?

In a related post, a commenter suggests:

[Your desktop mapping application] may use graphic card hardware acceleration to solve the problem, so you may be comparing apples to oranges.
https://stackoverflow.com/posts/comments/133894626?noredirect=1

Does Select By Location in ArcGIS Pro use graphic card acceleration?

Re: Does Select By Location use graphic card hardware acceleration?

JohnWatt — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 05:58:45 GMT

Possibly - my GPU jumped from 6% to 27% for a split second doing a spatial selection. But there may be other things (spatial indexes, topology, reprojections) that help GIS with geographic/graphic queries.

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Does Select By Location use graphic card hardware acceleration?

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