hello everyone, creating this thread to ask about what laptop i should get for HD video editing specifically using DaVinci. i dont want an Apple, so I’ve been eying the Acer Nitro V Gaming Laptop with Intel Core i9-13900H Processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. is this a good choice? also, im hesitant about NVIDIA’s whole boasting about their card using AI driven graphics, would this somehow affect my future work in a negative way like image smoothing on HD TVs or is this something that’s avoidable? the laptop also has 16 gigs of RAM, would i need to get larger RAM too like the G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series (XMP) DDR4 RAM 64GB (4x16GB)? i’m a dummy when it comes to this stuff, so any help would be appreciated.
I’m not much of an editor (kden-live), but usually lots of RAM and a fast SSD are the main things for decent performance. The CPU/GPU is used most heavily for rendering the final video in my experience. If you are not rendering out a super long video too often, then most modern many core CPUs should be good. Maybe DaVinci has more utilization of CPU/GPU when editing than Kden. I’d focus on lots of cores (vCPUs), RAM and the fastest SSD you can get (PCIE vs SATA).
noted! would you say that the acer’s 512GB Gen 4 SSD and its intel processor is good?
I was able to find that it is PCIE SSD, so it should be pretty good. The cpu also looks pretty good from a quick glance. I’m more of an AMD person so the different core types sort of gives me some pause.
Total Cores: 14
number of Performance-cores: 6
number of Efficient-cores: 8
Total Threads: 20
So it would seem like this means you only have 6 full power cores 🤔