Blackmagic Forum

Planning to upgrade my HP Z1 AIO workstation. What is best for Resolve Studio, Intel or AMD CPU? Also should I go with GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition ($1,897 from Amazon) or with Quadro P5000 ($1,899 from B&H)?

These guys did all the tests: https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommende ... mendations

Hi.

In Resolve the CPU is used to run the app, disk I/O, fusion, compression and decompression of codecs.
Resolve does all its image processing in the GPU on the graphics card. More CUDA/OpenCL Cores are better.

In the paid STUDIO Version of Resolve, can certain combination of Codec, Resolutions, Bit width and Chroma subsampling be hardware decoded/encoded on either a AMD/nVidea Graphics card or in a Intel non Xeon CPU.
Then you can use a little less powerfull CPU.

Resolve do all its Image processing in fp32. Quadros have its advantages in fp64. So for Resolve is there no reason to get a more expensive Quadro.

But GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is now previous generation. The new faster version is called RTX 3080 and have 10 GB of vRam. The one we all are waiting for, is the RTX 3080 Ti with 20 GB of vRam.

You don't tell us what resolution and codec you want to work with in Resolve?

But a AMD CPU will give you more performance for your money.

Regards Carsten.

If you're OK spending that much on a GPU, I'd wait for the 3090 to become available.