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Hello

I use DaVinci Resolve 15 with a 2016 13’ MacBook pro laptop.
It work fine with 1080p prores project. But when I try to play with effects in fusion it become extremely slow.

I’m thinking about purchasing the BMD egpu in hope to try to boost the performance even in some 4K projects or h264 compressed codecs.

I know for sure that I will get a big boost on the color page (noise reduction, motion blur, etc... )

But does anyone ever tried an egpu with Fusion inside Resolve or Fusion 9 ? Will I get a significant boost ? Do fusion benefit now from Metal or Opencl acceleration with egpu ?

Thanks for your feedback.

No, Fusion doesn't benefit as much. You'll have no fun with that laptop.

Do you think the latest 2018 15' Macbookpro can handle better Fusion inside resolve ? it's more on the CPU . ?

Thanks

Well, better is relative. In general, I would say that Apple has no laptop at this time that can compete with those heavy and power hungry PC gaming laptops for Resolve/Fusion. For serious compositing work, rather get a desktop, in particular if 4K is on your horizon.

The best iMac with 4 i7 cores and one internal Radeon 580 Pro plus the eGPU and quite some extra RAM is nice (and still cheaper than an iMac Pro).

If you stick to HD timelines, a mid level MacBook Pro with the eGPU is OK for Resolve and limited work in Fusion.

Ok. Thanks for your advice.