So, let’s go over the basics and where to look for quality products, so you can have an idea of where to start or what you need. While this isn’t exactly an article about GPUs and CPUs, it’s important to understand how these tools work in relation to what Resolve needs from your computer in order to perform to the best of its ability. While the studio version is operationally stronger, you may be pleased to know the minimum system requirements remain the same. The free version and the paid studio version that hosts several additional plugins as well as operational functions that you can’t do in the free version. Now, there are, of course, two versions of DaVinci Resolve.

NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU.

Discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.

Let’s take a look at the system requirements for Linux:

NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU.

GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11.

Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.

Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later.

Now, let’s take a peep at the system requirements if you’re using Windows: quality when rendering, further improving render times up to 65%. Customers can choose to prioritize speed vs. also supports a new option on Mac computers with M1 for H.265 hardware encoding. The new processing engine uses tile-based rendering. With this massive speed increase, customers can now play back, edit, and grade 4K projects faster, and can even work on 8K projects on an Apple M1 notebook. In their press statement on the update, Blackmagic said this: For Macs with the M1 chip, Resolve will now work an apparent three times faster than before.

GPU which supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2.īack last year, with the 17.3 updates, Blackmagic included a massive improvement in Mac compatibility and rendering capabilities.

Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.

Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 12.0 or later.

Let’s look at the requirements if you’re using a Mac OS: But, if you’re looking for the requirements and then dip out, let’s make that easier for you. We will explain what these components are and some of the recommended products currently on the market. However, through recent updates with Premiere and FCPX (I’m honestly not sure what FCPX is doing over there in the corner), other programs are also starting to catch up to DaVinci Resolve. When compared to the other non-linear editing platforms out there, Resolve has always been a GPU-reliant program, whereas others were more “CPU” focused. Let’s look at this major advancement in DaVinci Resolve and tackle all the specs you need to know to work with it.

Metal supported graphics card mac pro