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Just a quick reflection... I've been on this train for a full year now, and I feel like i've witnessed a formative time for Resolve. V15 was exciting, but hard to commit to (I guess I took a leap!)... V16 was where Resolve really got serious (now we're talking about Adobe-beating stuff)... V17, well it seemed like a killer blow, but something was missing.

Until this week I was on a 6 year old workstation with a lovely Xeon and a Quadro K2200. Resolve worked. Just about. Honestly I had got used to how it worked, and sometimes how it didn't. But then...

I'm now sitting on a Ryzen 7 5800X with an RTX3070 and EUREKA. I suddenly get it. HOLY BATPANTS is this a completely different experience! Now I can see how professionals can get real work done with this software. So two reflections:

- Bravo to the BM team. Resolve has finally grown up and it's now truly matching the competition

- You really do need up to date hardware to use this software

Anyone have any other thoughts? Similar experience or no?

I'm not quite sure I believe you - perhaps if you give me your RTX3070 I'll be convinced. I'm not sure how else I could get one...

Aha! No deal! :0)

benroper wrote:I'm now sitting on a Ryzen 7 5800X with an RTX3070 and EUREKA. I suddenly get it. HOLY BATPANTS is this a completely different experience! Now I can see how professionals can get real work done with this software. So two reflections:
- Bravo to the BM team. Resolve has finally grown up and it's now truly matching the competition
- You really do need up to date hardware to use this software

It depends on the level of work you're doing. If you depend on Resolve every single day for the majority of your income, then I think it's a very good idea to invest in the best possible hardware that meets their specs and works well with the software. (And it goes without saying, on a color-managed output and a calibrated display.)

My observation is that Resolve is tailored for the Advanced Panels, and once you switch from the Micro or the Mini or the Tangent or anything else, you realize how well it was designed for the big panels. It's a whole different experience that way.

Big Panels + Big Hardware... you can get really good performance, and more than capable of doing world-class work.

What's a miracle is that you can also get some work done on much smaller systems, and it's a testament that BMD has managed to get Resolve to work -- to a point -- on laptops and small systems and old systems as well as it does. I routinely do small projects on a 16" MacBook Pro, and it does OK for conforming and small renders, things like that.