Resolve Hardware Benchmarking?

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Rob Smith

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Resolve Hardware Benchmarking?

PostThu Sep 06, 2018 1:35 am

Hi all,

Looking at new system hardware - particularly given the new affordability of high-core-count CPUs thanks to the likes of Threadripper - I was wondering if money was best spent on setups with faster clock speed or higher core counts?

I know that some of the answer will be "it depends" :) but I wondered if that meant there was room for some sort of benchmark for Resolve?

Perhaps a couple projects with differing media, render times for both, can the timeline be played back in real-time? (and if not, what was the average fps), and so on...


Basically - does Resolve scale laterally enough to make investment in something like a 12c/24t processor worth it over something like a 6c/12t processor that will probably run at higher clocks?

Would you like there to be a 'benchmark mode' in Resolve to automate this?

Interested in feedback on this and any information related to other editing software too :)
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Carsten Sellberg

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Re: Resolve Hardware Benchmarking?

PostThu Sep 06, 2018 8:23 am

Rob Smith wrote: Looking at new system hardware



Hi.

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

You don't write what kind of resolution you will be using. If it only is HD or if it will be 4K/UHD?

So your coming system will also depend on the GPU and Resolution. But I will suggest you start to look at the DaVinchi Resolve 15 configuration guide:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... and-fusion

I know Black Magic Design is working on a review of this guide. But the old one is only 5 moths old and is a good place to start.

If you have further questens are you free to ask.

Regards Carsten.
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Andrew Kolakowski

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Re: Resolve Hardware Benchmarking?

PostThu Sep 06, 2018 9:47 am

12 cores is not crazy number and it should scale fine for most parts of the Resolve.
If you want to work with RED then it will definitely be used. More important is to match GPU accordingly, so you have balanced machine. If you use NR etc then you probably need 2 GPUs.
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Al Spaeth

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Re: Resolve Hardware Benchmarking?

PostThu Sep 06, 2018 11:24 am

Puget Systems says they are planning performance benchmarks for Resolve 15 soon. Don't know of any others.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/news/Puget-Systems-Newsletter---September-2018-254
I'm also waiting to see results before I upgrade
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