Dan Clark wrote: Is my current video card adequate for somewhat complex edits up to 4K in DR 16? Any recommended video cards?
Hi Dan.
I can't tell you any thing about graphic card requirement for resolve 16 yet, But I can tell you what I normally recommended for Resolve 15.
In Resolve the CPU is used to run the app, disk I/O and compression and decompression of codecs.
Resolve does all its image processing in the GPU on the graphics card. More CUDA/OpenCL Cores are better.
As all the image processing happen in the GPU are there two things that are important. The amount of vRam and the CUDA/OpenC Performance.
For 4K work do I minimum recommend 8 GB of vRam and in some cases more. And higher CUDA/OpenCL are better.
I don't know what kind of video files you normally work with. But some codec, resolution and bit width can be hardware accelerated in either nVidea or AMD GPU's or in some Intel CPU's, but only for the STUDIO version of Resolve. Then can you choose a Graphics card with less CUDA/OpenC Performance.
I also like to tell you that from 27. May will motherboards with PCIe 4.0 connections be introduced. And it is expected that that the first PCIe 4.0 Graphics Cards soon will follow. The PCIe version 4.0 Interface will have the double speed of the current PCIe version 3.0 Interface.
Some of these new Graphics Cards,will be produced in the new 7nm process node , that will be both faster and cheaper to manufacture.
Regards Carsten.