Upgrading my quadro k2000 with a 1050ti or a 1060

I am starting with Davinci Resolve Free version.
I am thinking in changing a Quadro k2000 for a Nvidia 1050ti or a 1060 6gb since they are much powerful but I have no idea in which ways they would improve the performance of the program.
Is there a benchmark or something similar to check the improvements of such an upgrade? How could I tell the difference in advance?

[Peter Chamberlain]

Resolve users the GPU extensively so u want the best u can afford, and the more GPU ram the better.

Is a 1080ti in your budget? Compare the CUDA core and memory count to the 1060.

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.

For 4K works is a Graphics card with at least 8 GB vRam recommended. A Graphics Card upgrade will only improve the speed of the image processing. It is done in the CUDA cores of the Graphics Card. Here is a link to some general CUDA benchmarks for different Graphics Cards:

https://browser.geekbench.com/cuda-benchmarks

The Quadro K2000 only have a score of 18521. And much more CUDA performance is required.

Regards Carsten.

Resolve users the GPU extensively so u want the best u can afford, and the more GPU ram the better.

Is a 1080ti in your budget? Compare the CUDA core and memory count to the 1060.

No, 1080ti is too expensive. My options are 1050ti or 1060. I believe I will go with the 1060. I also wonder if a pc laptop with dual graphic card would use both of them even though they are not sli graphic cards. For example, the integrated with the intel cpu and a dedicated nvidia.

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.

For 4K works is a Graphics card with at least 8 GB vRam recommended. A Graphics Card upgrade will only improve the speed of the image processing. It is done in the CUDA cores of the Graphics Card. Here is a link to some general CUDA benchmarks for different Graphics Cards:

https://browser.geekbench.com/cuda-benchmarks

The Quadro K2000 only have a score of 18521. And much more CUDA performance is required.

Regards Carsten.

It seems the 1050ti or the 1060 are deffinately better that the quadro k2000 for Resolve. So there is no point in keeping the k2000 just for the 10bit output right?
When you say image processing, what do you mean exactly? rendering? or applying the effects in the ui in real time?

Thank you all for your replies

Hi.

I wonder what the price difference between the GTX 1060 and the RTX 2060 is in your country?
As the CUDA performance difference is huge.

When I in my previous post wrote that image processing is done in the GPU, do I mean editing and grading.

You don't tell us what format HD or 4K/UHD and codec h.264/h.265 you expect to use?
Or if you some time in the future intend to buy the Resolve Studio version?

The reason I am asking is, that if you want to edit 4K, only in the Free version of Resolve can an AMD RX580 8 GB be a better choice than the GTX 1060 6 GB.

Regards Carsten.

The regular 1060 is 3GB and won't work for 4K. The regular 1050 is 2GB. GPU speed makes almost no difference in the free version of Resolve once you are in the 10xx series so vRam is what you want just to get it going. The 1070 has 8GB and can be found for $200 if you hunt.

The free version also only uses one GPU for rendering, the slowest one since the monitor is typically plugged in the fast one. Better off having one GPU and disabling the discrete one. Also frees up shared ram.

Hi.

I wonder what the price difference between the GTX 1060 and the RTX 2060 is in your country?
As the CUDA performance difference is huge.

You don't tell us what format HD or 4K/UHD and codec h.264/h.265 you expect to use?
Or if you some time in the future intend to buy the Resolve Studio version?

The reason I am asking is, that if you want to edit 4K, only in the Free version of Resolve can an AMD RX580 8 GB be a better choice than the GTX 1060 6 GB.

Regards Carsten.

My footage is recorded in 4k@30fps/24fps and 1080@30fps/60fps and render to 1080@30fps/24fps. At the moment I am using the free version of Davinci Resolve. I would like to buy the studio version in the near future.
The 2060 should be a better choice but I can get a 1060 or a 1050ti easily. I'll go with a 1060. I am thinking of buying Davinci Resolve Studio.

The regular 1060 is 3GB and won't work for 4K. The regular 1050 is 2GB. GPU speed makes almost no difference in the free version of Resolve once you are in the 10xx series so vRam is what you want just to get it going. The 1070 has 8GB and can be found for $200 if you hunt.

The free version also only uses one GPU for rendering, the slowest one since the monitor is typically plugged in the fast one. Better off having one GPU and disabling the discrete one. Also frees up shared ram.

I had considered the 1070 but my PSU won't allow it.

Thank you all for your replies

I would like to buy the studio version in the near future

Hi.

As you are thinking of buying the Studio Version of Resolve, will I not recommend a AMD Graphics Card as the Studio version have Hardware Encoding/Decoding of some formats of h.264/h.265 only with a nVidea Graphics Card. Here is a link to the nVidea API used.

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-vid ... ECFeatures

And just to be sure. I hope you are looking on a GTX 1060 with 6 GB, as smaller amount of vRam NOT is good for 4K.

Regards Carsten.

And just to be sure. I hope you are looking on a GTX 1060 with 6 GB, as smaller amount of vRam NOT is good for 4K.

Regards Carsten.

I will definitely get the 1060 6GB. Thank you for the information.

I'm using a 350W supply and bought a SATA to 6+2 GPU adapter. However, when I upgrade to Studio from the free version the GPU might tax the PSU to much. I'll see. It's an annoying non standard HP PSU. I'm also using the 1070 mini which is shorter but I don't plan/need to OC it.