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Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2022 3:29 pm**

Hi,
I'm brand new on the forum and a brand new DaVinci Resolve user. I struggled to find the current (18.0.4) minimum hardware requirements for DaVinci Resolve on Intel/Windows, other than advice to read the Readme file - but this only ships with the installation files!
So - to save others struggling - here are the minimum hardware requirements for DaVinci Resolve 18.0.4 on Windows which I just got from the Readme.

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion.
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11.
• NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – as required by your GPU.

No mention of CPU minimum spec, I'm running an Intel i7-10510U from a couple of years back on my laptop with 16GB RAM and an internal SSD and it runs OK. The Blackmagic speedtest seems to run OK although as expected not showing super-quick 8K, CPU is ~8fps and GPU is ~17fps. And a quick test when launching Resolve does have a problem with my laptop graphics, but as I'm going to run it mainly on my new i11 powered desktop I'm not worried about that.

Anyway, nice to meet you all and look forward to learning more about using Resolve over the next few months. I will be taking a Resolve course at Film Oxford so should be up to speed with basic tasks in the next few weeks.
Cheers
Steve

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:41 pm**

Further update. After a bit of searching, I managed to find the DaVinci Resolve Hardware Selection and Configuration Guide here
https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/ ... _Guide.pdf
Although the filename includes Windows, it covers Linux and Mac as well. Interestingly there are also two other filenames that work, just substitute Mac or Linux for Windows in the filename. They all link to the same file. And unfortunately it is for Resolve 15, so a bit out of date. Having said that, it is very comprehensive and covers a lot of detail in how to choose your hardware and configure accessories, even down to configuring PCIe slots in Windows and Linux machines.

I have no idea how to get to the file through the blackmagicdesign.com website, if anyone knows please reply with details.
Cheers
S

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:53 am**

Those documents are on the Support page of the site. Click Resolve to filter, then in the middle column below, “Latest Support Notes” scroll down. Unfortunately, they stopped making the Support Config guides— v15 was the last.

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