Specifications

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DAVINCI RESOLVE FOR MAC - CERTIFIED CONFIGURATION GUIDE
GUI Monitor
The Resolve GUI is optimized for 2560x1440 screen
resolution but will work with a MacBook Pro 15- inch
Hi-Res (1680 x 1050) Widescreen Display and also
1920 x 1080 and higher screen resolutions. If you
are using the Macbook Pro 15" with Retina display,
select the "Scaled for more space" mode. Mac Pro
users can connect a second monitor to the GUI GPU
and within the Resolve application place the video
scopes on this monitor.
Graphics Processing Unit
The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) provides
the backbone to Resolves industry leading
performance. Resolve requires a powerful GPU as
all image processing is performed in 32 bit floating
point precision. You can use the same GPU for the
GUI but this will of course limit the GPU ability to
process images in real time.
We generally recommend the fastest GPU or GPUs
with the most GPU RAM that you can afford within
the limits of the supported hardware.
DaVinci Resolve 10 will operate on both CUDA and
OpenCL based GPUs and in the current model Mac
Pro you can use an ATI/AMD GUI GPU and NVIDIA
CUDA image processing GPUs.
PCIe and Thunderbolt
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Expanders
The 2012 MacPro offers connection to an external
expander chassis via its PCIe interface. This permits
extra GPUs to be installed for use by the unique
processing controller in DaVinci Resolve. While
there are a number of expanders available on the
market only a few have been tested and certified for
use with DaVinci Resolve.
Please refer to the PCIe Expander details later in this
guide for details.
At this time there are no Thunderbolt expanders
certified for use with GPUs however you can use a
ThunderBolt expander for a fibre channel adapter,
storage interface or raid controller, video card or
even a Red Rocket. The shopping list later in this
guide details tested models and configurations.