Ellory Yu wrote:So my source about the 4080 was from talking with a reputable system builder of Resolve workstations and who also suggested the 4070ti super over the 4080 super or the 7900 xtx over the 4090 if on a budget which I am on a $1k budget. He pointed out to me on articles and benchmarks they did for Resolve 18.6.4 which is rather recent and the 7900 xtx had the best overall scores on relevant test. However, this also meant that the inclusion by them of the AMD 7900xtx has it that AMD drivers were no longer much of an issue as it used to be, or maybe with only certain GPUs. As I said before I’m not a hardware engineer and am making decisions based on numbers and facts from sources like Puget. Of course gaming reports are better for nvidia I think, also I am only interested in a gpu for Resolve. You might disagree with this numbers but I didn’t made them up, just sharing them. It maybe time for a second look at AMD for content creation cards. Hopefully the numbers here warrant our constructive disagreement and discussion.
You're beating a dead horse around here with some people. These benchmarks will never be accepted no matter how many media outlets say the drivers are a non issue the past few years.
It used to be that Puget was an accepted benchmark until some AMD cards came on top. Then it was real life experience that mattered and any other random metric they can come up with, moving the goalpost every time.
And you'll end up with recommendations for 3060 12GB over 7900XTXs because "CUDA" or some other random thing. No matter if you use RED/BRAW 95% of the time for example.
So its best to ignore, check the numbers, check the forum. Ask people who actually used the cards,
check the professionals, ignore the trolls.
If you're dead set on a 7900XTX then I can only share my experience. I use RED RAW, BRAW, CinemaDNG from Ursas, ArriRAW and it works very well with these formats. Resolve 18.6.1 and Adrenalin 23.9.1.
I only had a crash in Resolve that was related with one of the weird Sony XAVC flavors. Not sure if it was fixed or not in the new drivers but since it was like 30mins of footage I just converted it with ffmpeg.