I have a brand-new Dell Precision 7875 (Aug '24). It was supposed to be built to handle Davinci Resolve Studio. Unfortunately, it was designed by someone without any knowledge of Davinci Resolve including the minimum standards. I ended up with a 2GB AMD Radeon Pro W6300 graphic card. I’m told to take it out and put in NVIDIA. But three Dell tech specialists and one salesperson later, I don’t have a consensus. One tells me the RTX 4070 will fit or the RTX 4090, the other says “NO!” The RTX 6000 or the 5000. Another says no the RTX A4000 or ADA. I’ve already learned my lesson by taking the counsel of my IT guy and that’s how I ended up with the 2GB graphic card and a Ryzen Pro Threadripper Pro 7945WX. I see here that NVIDIA is working on AI with Dell. Surely there is someone out there that can help a creator install the right hardware. When the Dell salesperson said she’d have to look into it and then sent me an email for a NVIDIA card for over $8000, I was shocked! I’m not making movies. But I am making 33–45-minute videos with some Fusion and color grading. Who knows what I could achieve with the right equipment. I appreciate any and all who can give me some guidance. Thank you.
The 5090 FE is going to launch on January 30th. It’s a two slot 32GB VRAM card with an MSRP of $1,999. I personally believe that will be one of the best cards for creators as long as you have the space and a power supply that can handle it.
Hey, I just came across this and hope you didn’t spend a ton on a GPU. I’m a colorist who has a cloud startup and I’ve built a ton of systems for Resolve in the last decade. For Resolve it’s GTX/rtx all the way, unless you’re going to containerize / virtualize Resolve.
You want to have a balance of GPU & CPU. IMHO the 5090 is a bit overkill for your processor, especially considering the power requirements. On the budget side is recommend a 3070, especially if you’re tight on space, they are pretty small, plenty powerful and a good balance for your CPU. You won’t notice a difference between that and a 5090 on your rig unless you’re working on something ridiculous like 8k raw at full debayer with effects like denoising, the extra VRam and power would come into play then, but if you’re working on like 4k ProRes with a handful of nodes the 5090 will offer no advantage.
The 3080/90 and 4070 - 4090 are great too, just be sure the cards are double width and not triple, unless you have room for it. The 80/90 are typically 3 slots wide and longer