Fri Apr 19, 2019 11:50 am
What is obvious to me is that BMD has not yet figured out how to scale their use of the GPU to accommodate less powerful systems, particularly laptops for which 2 and 4 GB of GPU RAM is the norm.
Good for you if you have the funds to purchase a new system each year when the next version of Resolve requires double whatever GPU memory you have this year but for many this is not an option.
I think we would all be pleased if Resolve ran faster with more GPU memory - the converse being that it ran slower with less GPU memory but still ran... The argument against graceful scaling (by some) is that they would prefer to see BMD working on new features rather than 'wasting' (their words, not mine) time developing graceful GPU memory scaling - I suggest that they can do both.
One can always hope.
Resolve Studio 16.1b3 | Fusion Studio 16.1b3 | Win 10 Pro (1903) | i9-7940x, P4000 (431.86, 8GB VRAM), 64GB RAM, M.2 boot, SSD scratch, RAID10 data | (laptop) i7-6600, M1000M (2GB VRAM), 32GB RAM, SSD OS, M.2 scratch, T3 external