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Hi, This message might be a duplicate, not sure, so sorry if it is. I'm buying a computer and confused about the graphics card that will be more appropriate for video editing (AMD vs. Nvidia). Do you know which card works best for video editing? Thank you.

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Mandy321 wrote: I'm buying a computer and confused about the graphics card that will be more appropriate for video editing (AMD vs. Nvidia).

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.

4K videos have 4 times the pixels of HD. And for 4K is the absolute minimum 6 GB of vRam on the Graphics Card, but minimum 8 GB of vRam or more are recommended.

Both AMD and Nvidia graphic cards works with Resolve. And I am sorry to tell you, that there are a general shortage of both brands of graphics card, due to in increasing value of the crypto valuta. In many places are people generating their own crypto valuta ( mining ). And for that purpose people are buying all the graphic cards they can get.

You don't tell us if you you consider a laptop or a desktop?
But a desktop is a much better choice for Resolve.

Regards Carsten.

Choice depends also on the OS you intend to run.

Related question - looking for thoughts.
I am getting ready to order an Editing box now. I am thinking of AMD Ryzen 9 (3900XT) with is a 12 core CPU. Together with an 12GB Nvidia RTX3060 GPU card.

Question is would you trade down the CPU a bit and go to a bit more GPU grunt?
Recommendations for alternate GPUs, what works well.

Last question thoughts on RAM? 32GB or 64GB?
TIA
Mayy

Hi, Thank you all for your help. The following are two computers to choose from - The first one cost less than the 2nd one; will this one work well with DaVinci Resolve? I appreciate your input, please. Thank you.

XPS DESKTOP
10th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-10700 processor(8-Core, 16M Cache, 2.9GHz to 4.8GHz)
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit English
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 SUPER™ 6GB GDDR6
16GB, 1x16GB, DDR4, 2933MHz
1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
500W Night Sky Bezel Chassis including optical drive

THE SECOND CHOICE IS:

XPS desktop
10th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-10900 processor(10-Core, 20M Cache, 2.8GHz to 5.2GHz)
Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, English
AMD® Radeon™ RX 5700 XT with 8GB GDDR6
32GB, 2x16GB, DDR4, 2933Mhz
2TB M.2 PCIe NVME SSD + 1TB SATA 7200RPM HDD
500W Mineral White Bezel Chassis including optical drive

smunaut wrote:Choice depends also on the OS you intend to run.

The OS is Windows 10 Pro. Thanks.

MattFry wrote: I am thinking of AMD Ryzen 9 (3900XT) with is a 12 core CPU. Together with an 12GB Nvidia RTX3060 GPU card.

Hi.

I think this AMD Ryzen 9 (3900XT) with is a 12 core CPU. Together with an 12GB Nvidia RTX3060 GPU card is a much better choice, than the ons with Intel CPU's

Regards Carsten.

Thank you all for helping me. Mandy