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G'day and welcome to the forums.
The easy anser is: It depends.
It depends on what your source material is: If it is h.264/h.265, it will limit you a lot(1)
If it is DNxHR/Prores/h.263, I don't think it will limit you. (2)
You will be severely limited by your amount of ram, much more so than your cpu. Resolve takes at minimum 4 GB of ram + the size of Resolve itself, meaning you are looking at ram usage of 5 to 6 GB.
(1): h.264 and h.265 are highly compressed formats that require a lot of CPU power to decode, meaning that editing in Resolve will be slow (ie making a change and waiting 5-10 seconds for the window to update. _Every_ single time). If you convert to an intermediate codec like (2), you will be limited by your HDD instead, but Resolve will be more responsive.
There is a thread here about the h.264 compression quality of Resolve, I would suggest reading it. The short version is to render to DNxHR and compress via ffmpeg for the best quality. That you can do overnight and get a result.