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Building for Resolve Lite in a rather tight budget
First off, hi everyone!
I’m a media arts student looking to build a system for Resolve Lite, well, not just Resolve Lite. I’m also looking into Adobe Creative Suite and Media Composer Academic (perhaps).
So I’ve been reading a lot for this and I want to clear a few questions in my head before I go into building my system.
1. Resolve apparently requires two GPU’s, one for CUDA, and one for GUI. I wonder how the performance gets affected if only a GUI card is there. I’m not going to be doing anything with very large resolutions, 1080p will be as big as it gets.
2. Can one dual GPU card like a 590 be used for both the GUI and CUDA processing?
My purchases will be affected by how things are with the CPU’s in resolve.
Thanks!
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It used to be in many cases resolve wouldn’t even run on a system unless it had a dedicated gpu. Particularly on the windows side. Now with v9 this is greatly improved. So you can get away with a single card given reduced performance.
As to the 590. It would probably be more power and less performance than a single 580. It’s look at the 680 4gb or 570 2.5gb if the 580 is cost prohibitive.
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Thanks, man.
So how bad of a performance hit are we talking here when it comes to 1080p?
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I have no 590/690 experience but these cards are essentially two GPUs linked through SLI, and SLI is not supported by Resolve.
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