• DaVinci Resolve

  Will more RAM add some gain in performance?

  Posted by Ola Haldor voll on February 8, 2011 at 3:14 pm

  I’m on a basic specced Mac Pro 2009, Two Quad 2.26GHz 6GB RAM, GT120 and GTX285. I’m wondering if more RAM would help? I’m sure it won’t do “magic”, but would I benefit from it? I see in the Activity Monitor I have in the dock that RAM fills up very quickly, even though I’m not seeing any significant performance issues, except with RED RAW.

  Illya Laney replied 15 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Paul Jay

  February 8, 2011 at 10:12 pm

  It depends if the software you are using can run 64 bit. If yes it can adress more RAM.
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  Sascha Haber

  February 9, 2011 at 5:17 pm

  No, I went from 6 to 24 last week and it feels the same.

  But, I can keep other stuff like Storm or Nuke open at the same time with Ram previews loaded and Resolve is still happy.

  A slice of color…

  DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
  Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
  RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
  GTX 285 / GT 120
  Extreme 3D+ WAVE
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  Ola Haldor voll

  February 9, 2011 at 7:27 pm

  Thanks, appreciate the feedback. I think I should spend those $$$ in some SAS storage then. Bigger, faster, better!
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  Illya Laney

  February 9, 2011 at 11:06 pm

  I love Storm by the way. So much potential there. I hope the Foundry releases a full NLE in the future.

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