Uli Plank wrote:Are you sure it's the GPU? Might rather be the limited RAM that's making Fusion slow on M1.
How much you gain from a 3070/80 depends very much on the task. Temporal processes like NR or optical flow profit a lot, stabilization much less.
It's definitely the GPU, at least in Resolve Studio.
Returned my M1 MBP after like... 20 hours. Really just not something I consider usable - at least for my uses.
Nick2021 wrote:Uli Plank wrote:In laptops many high-performance GPUs get throttled due to heat and/or for battery life.
I think a 3080 desktop calls for 300 watts of power. That's just the GPU. Laptops don't need to have that much power even plugged in.
A laptop 2060 Max-Q uses a lot less and is still exponentially better than the M1 iGPU. Frankly, I think it's laughable to compare that to a discrete desktop card.
The ASUS TUF in that graph is a budget gaming laptop ($8-900'ish).
Uli Plank wrote:In laptops many high-performance GPUs get throttled due to heat and/or for battery life.
I use a G14 for editing and the thing doesn't even come close to throttling, like... ever. I can edit on that thing all day and it will never be thermally limited. Doesn't even make much noise..
Battery life is a problem on any portable form factor, unless you use mobile components... but those will not give you the same performance (specifically in the realm of GPUs).
Having said that, I am seeing a few posts on this BMD forum and on Reddit where people using a 3060, 3070 and 3080 seem to be saying that even those GPU's don't seem to offer significant advancement over lesser powered GPUs, for example:
Resolve is probably the least-economical NLE someone can use. You get less value out of the same hardware using Resolve compared to something like Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. It utilizes hardware well, but the base requirements are too high. So, you often run into a situation where upgrades simply aren't delivering the performance gain you'd expect [for the cost invested in obtaining them]... which effectively creates a yearly upgrade cycle.
Instead of paying for Resolve upgrades, you instead pay for new GPUs to squeeze more performance out of your machine - even while other NLEs fly with the GPU you had 2 upgrades ago - effectively causing them to cost less, despite having higher initial prices and associated upgrade costs.
A lot of upstarts (or people looking to save money) are attracted to Resolve [Studio] because it's "Free" or "Cheap," but that's a very surface level [read: naive] manner for evaluating cost.
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Unlike Intel in the CPU space, neither AMD nor Nvidia seem to be stagnating much in the GPU space. The only sucky thing is the availability due to the shortages, which has caused prices to double (or more).