Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:02 pm
I recently got a new laptop that I thought might do a passable job of video editing, but it seems to be fairly poor at the job. Well, at least at rendering output. Here are the specs:
Dell Inspiron 7586 2-in-1
i7-8565U (4 cores, 8 threads)
Nvidia MX150 GPU (2GB VRAM)
Intel UHD 620 integrated GPU
16GB DDR4-2400 dual-channel RAM
512GB NVMe SSD
15.6" 4K screen
I know the MX150 is pretty much the bottom of the barrel as far as dedicated GPU's go, but I thought it would be noticeably better than integrated graphics. However, an 11 minute 1080p video clip (Youtube preset) exported in 25 minutes. No advanced effects here, just 3 or 4 simple text titles and some cuts of the original material. The original source is a 3 hour 1080p h.264 clip recorded at 15Mbps.
Is there anything I can do to improve render performance (aside from getting a new laptop)? Looking at Windows' performance monitor, I see that when rendering Resolve is using 100% CPU, 15% - 20% of the Nvidia GPU and 15% - 20% of the Intel GPU. That's neat it can use both, but apparently it's not using both well. (Wait, is one decoding, the other encoding? That is cool.) Is there anything I can do to use either GPU more efficiently?
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Pixelslayer on Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.