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Wed Nov 14, 2018 1:32 am
Hi all,
This applies to multiple sub-forums here so I am cross-posting this.
I am running a desktop computer that I built in 2009. Last year I upgraded the CPU to the best I could get for my X58 motherboard, the Xeon X5690, and upgraded my RAM to 48GB of DDR3. I also have a GTX 1070 that I purchased last year. Recently I overclocked the CPU and it is stable at ~4.5 GHz.
Point is, I have a powerful 6-core tower with a CPU that is 7 years old.
I would like better performance out of Resolve and Fusion, but I don't think my current CPU is being fully utilized by Resolve/Fusion so I can't say whether an entirely new computer will actually speed up rendering.
I know that theoretically a modern CPU with the same clock speed and number of cores/threads should seriously outperform my current CPU because a modern CPU can handle more calculations per clock cycle.
However, since my performance bottleneck seems to be my VRAM, I need to know if a second GPU would help more than a new CPU/mobo/RAM.
When I run Task Manager and watch my performance graphs while working in Fusion/Resolve, at no point is my CPU hitting close to 100% utilization. It tends to hover around 50% at most, and that's on all 12 threads.
It's also not hitting the max memory that Resolve can use, I think it's set to use 32 GB and at most it uses around 30 GB.
The one metric that I can see maxed out consistently is my GPU Memory Utilization, it's often utilizing the full 8 GB of VRAM.
[[I'm not home now but when I get home (and get my internet working again) I will take screenshots and add them to this post to illustrate what I'm saying.]]
So here's what I'm wondering: Will a modern CPU/RAM upgrade improve my render times in Fusion and Resolve more so than a second graphics card?
Essentially, I don't feel that it's worth building an entirely new computer if it's not currently hitting 100% CPU utilization because that makes me believe the bottleneck lies elsewhere.
I would really appreciate any thoughts on the subject.
Thank you!
This applies to multiple sub-forums here so I am cross-posting this.
I am running a desktop computer that I built in 2009. Last year I upgraded the CPU to the best I could get for my X58 motherboard, the Xeon X5690, and upgraded my RAM to 48GB of DDR3. I also have a GTX 1070 that I purchased last year. Recently I overclocked the CPU and it is stable at ~4.5 GHz.
Point is, I have a powerful 6-core tower with a CPU that is 7 years old.
I would like better performance out of Resolve and Fusion, but I don't think my current CPU is being fully utilized by Resolve/Fusion so I can't say whether an entirely new computer will actually speed up rendering.
I know that theoretically a modern CPU with the same clock speed and number of cores/threads should seriously outperform my current CPU because a modern CPU can handle more calculations per clock cycle.
However, since my performance bottleneck seems to be my VRAM, I need to know if a second GPU would help more than a new CPU/mobo/RAM.
When I run Task Manager and watch my performance graphs while working in Fusion/Resolve, at no point is my CPU hitting close to 100% utilization. It tends to hover around 50% at most, and that's on all 12 threads.
It's also not hitting the max memory that Resolve can use, I think it's set to use 32 GB and at most it uses around 30 GB.
The one metric that I can see maxed out consistently is my GPU Memory Utilization, it's often utilizing the full 8 GB of VRAM.
[[I'm not home now but when I get home (and get my internet working again) I will take screenshots and add them to this post to illustrate what I'm saying.]]
So here's what I'm wondering: Will a modern CPU/RAM upgrade improve my render times in Fusion and Resolve more so than a second graphics card?
Essentially, I don't feel that it's worth building an entirely new computer if it's not currently hitting 100% CPU utilization because that makes me believe the bottleneck lies elsewhere.
I would really appreciate any thoughts on the subject.
Thank you!