Fastest Current GPU setup for Resolve – Rendering HD Resolution

[Juan Salvo]

All codecs are handled on the CPU. Image processing in resolve is generally handled on the GPU, and most (meaning in variety not volume) raw camera formats in Resolve are debayered either in GPU or a combination of GPU/CPU, but not all. R3D and (i believe still) DNG are entirely CPU debayered.

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[Toby Tomkins]

Your bottleneck is CPU speed, not power, ie clock speed. When codecs, or even other parts of the encoding process are single threaded then your clock speed will quickly become the limiting factor. To break 100fps in Resolve you need to be over 4GHz in my experience. This is why overclocked i7 processors running at say 4.6GHz would be faster for transcoding/rendering certain formats in DaVinci than a dual Xeon set up (at 2.8GHz or 3.5GHz in Turbo if you’re lucky). The 6-core i7s at these speeds are phenomenal with DaVinci (-: