DaVinci Resolve 17 - Hardware Recommendations

What would you recommend on CPU and GPU use with DaVinci Resolve 17?

[Peter Chamberlain]

What sort of work will u do? Clip sources, Resolve, frame rate, audio needs, and Fusion?

What sort of work will u do? Clip sources, Resolve, frame rate, audio needs, and Fusion?

I will be working on SHORT FORM VIDEO (1 - 3 mins) for social media and will be also be interested in created SHORT STORY video.

hi peter

it's time for a new configuration guide for DR16 and DR17 !

Hey,

thats what i'm also interested in.
I am unable to work with video footage which has higher resolution than 1080.
I upgraded my RAM from 16 to 32 GB and thought that i could now do it, but it doesn't work.
Found out in the forum that the new nvidia driver is causing carshes, so i switched to studio drivers.

But i'm unable to even watch 2.7k video footage in davinci resaolve 17 (free version) - no transition/effects etc. just plain footage from the gopro. if i have multiple simple cuts in the footage (short clips) its often producing lags /freeze frame although sound is playing fine, and some clips later its resume with the video. Watching clips with transitions in preview is also not possible for me due to lags during the playback.

Timeline proxy mode on half resolution helped a bit, render cache also little bit, but its eating up my drive space - so i can't use it. What do i need to use davinci resolve smoothly?

my specs are:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (3.20 GHz)
32 GB DDR4
GeForce RTX 2070

Heard once in a video that there is performance difference between the free and studio version Davinci resolve - is that true? Does it have maybe something to do with codecs like HEVC?

EDIT: Realized that the most problems occur when using 2.7k@120fps (H.265 codec). 2.7k@60fps works better


Thanks!