Skip to content
Main Navigation Puget Systems Logo
  • Solutions
    • Content Creation
      • Photo Editing
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • Adobe Lightroom Classic
        • Adobe Photoshop
        • Stable Diffusion
      • Video Editing & Motion Graphics
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • Adobe After Effects
        • Adobe Premiere Pro
        • DaVinci Resolve
        • Foundry Nuke
      • 3D Design & Animation
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • Autodesk 3ds Max
        • Autodesk Maya
        • Blender
        • Cinema 4D
        • Houdini
        • ZBrush
      • Real-Time Engines
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • Game Development
        • Unity
        • Unreal Engine
        • Virtual Production
      • Rendering
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • Keyshot
        • OctaneRender
        • Redshift
        • V-Ray
      • Digital Audio
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • Ableton Live
        • FL Studio
        • Pro Tools
    • Engineering
      • Architecture & CAD
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • Autodesk AutoCAD
        • Autodesk Inventor
        • Autodesk Revit
        • SOLIDWORKS
      • Visualization
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • Enscape
        • Lumion
        • Twinmotion
      • Photogrammetry & GIS
        • Recommended Systems For:
        • ArcGIS Pro
        • Agisoft Metashape
        • Pix4D
        • RealityScan
    • AI & HPC
      • Recommended Systems For:
      • Data Science
      • Generative AI
      • Large Language Models
      • Machine Learning / AI Dev
      • Scientific Computing
    • More
      • Recommended Systems For:
      • Compact Size
      • Live Streaming
      • NVIDIA RTX Studio
      • Quiet Operation
      • Virtual Reality
    • Business & Enterprise
      We can empower your company
    • Government & Education
      Services tailored for your organization
  • Products
    • Puget Mobile
      Powerful laptop workstations
      • Puget Mobile 16″
    • Puget Workstations
      High-performance desktop PCs
      • AMD Ryzen
        • Ryzen 9000:
        • Small Form Factor
        • Mini Tower
        • Mid Tower
        • Full Tower
      • AMD Threadripper
        • Threadripper 7000:
        • Mid Tower
        • Full Tower
        • Threadripper PRO 7000WX:
        • Full Tower
      • AMD EPYC
        • EPYC 9004/9005:
        • Full Tower
      • Intel Core Ultra
        • Core Ultra Series 2:
        • Small Form Factor
        • Mini Tower
        • Mid Tower
        • Full Tower
      • Intel Xeon
        • Xeon W-2500:
        • Mid Tower
        • Xeon W-3500:
        • Full Tower
    • Custom Computers
    • Puget Rackstations
      Workstations in rackmount chassis
      • AMD Rackstations
        • Ryzen 9000:
        • R132-4U
        • R550-6U 5-Node
        • Threadripper 7000:
        • T121-4U
        • T120-5U
        • Threadripper PRO 7000WX:
        • T141-4U
        • T140-5U (Dual 5090s)
      • Intel Rackstations
        • Core Ultra Series 2:
        • C132-4U
        • Xeon W-3500:
        • X131-4U
        • X141-5U
    • Custom Rackmount Workstations
    • Puget Servers
      Enterprise-class rackmount servers
      • 1U Rackmount Servers
        • AMD EPYC:
        • E200-1U
        • Intel Xeon:
        • X200-1U
      • 2U Rackmount Servers
        • AMD EPYC:
        • E120-2U
        • E140-2U
        • Intel Xeon:
        • X240-2U
      • 4U Rackmount Servers
        • AMD EPYC:
        • E280-4U
        • E281-4U
    • Comino Grando GPU Servers
    • Custom Servers
    • Puget Storage
      Solutions from desktop to datacenter
      • Network-Attached Storage
        • Synology NAS Units:
        • 4-bay DiskStation
        • 8-bay DiskStation
        • 12-bay DiskStation
        • 4-bay RackStation
        • 12-bay FlashStation
      • Software-Defined Storage
        • Datacenter Storage:
        • 12-Bay 2U
        • 24-Bay 2U
        • 36-Bay 4U
    • Recommended Third Party Peripherals
      Curated list of accessories for your workstation
  • Publications
    • Articles
    • Blog Posts
    • Case Studies
    • HPC Blog
    • Podcasts
    • Press
    • PugetBench
  • Support
    • Contact Support
    • Onsite Services
    • Support Articles
    • Unboxing
    • Warranty Details
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Careers
    • Contact Us
    • Enterprise
    • Gov & Edu
    • Our Customers
    • Press Kit
    • Puget Gear
    • Testimonials
  • Talk to an Expert
  • My Account
  1. Home
  2. /
  3. Hardware Articles
  4. /
  5. DaVinci Resolve Studio – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Performance

DaVinci Resolve Studio – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Performance

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Matt Bach
Always look at the date when you read an article. Some of the content in this article is most likely out of date, as it was written on December 30, 2020. For newer information, see our more recent articles.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Test Setup
  • Raw Benchmark Results
  • Overall DaVinci Resolve Performance Analysis
  • GPU Score Analysis
  • How well does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB perform in DaVinci Resolve Studio?

TL;DR: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB performance in DaVinci Resolve Studio

Overall, the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a very solid GPU for DaVinci Resolve. At most, the RTX 3060 Ti trails the RTX 3070 by just 8%, but can be as much as 2x faster than the AMD Radeon 5700 XT. This also makes the RTX 3060 Ti faster than any AMD GPU we have tested to date, besting even the Radeon 6800 XT which costs significantly more. This makes it a terrific option for those on a tighter budget.

Introduction

Over the last three months, NVIDIA has been doing a rolling launch of their new GeForce RTX 30 Series video cards, culminating in the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB which just recently hit the market. While gaming is almost always a major focus during these launches, professional applications like DaVinci Resolve are becoming increasingly important for NVIDIA's GeForce line of cards.

DaVinci Resolve (especially the Studio edition) is known in the industry as having excellent GPU-acceleration support – greatly benefiting from a powerful video card. We are especially interested in how the RTX 3060 Ti in particular will perform as it is in previous articles, NVIDIA's RTX 30 series cards were able to out-pace everything from AMD. The RTX 3060 Ti, however, is the most affordable RTX 30 series card from NVIDIA to date, so it will be interesting to see how it stacks up against the latest GPUs from AMD.

DaVinci Resolve Studio GPU Performance Benchmark - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB
Image
DaVinci Resolve Studio GPU Performance Benchmark - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB
Open Full Resolution

If you want to see the full specs for the latest GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD, we recommend checking out the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series and AMD Radeon RX Graphics Cards product pages. But at a glance, here are what we consider to be the most important specs:

VRAM Cores Boost Clock Power MSRP
Radeon 5700X 8GB 2,560 1.9 GHz 225W $399
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB 4,864 1.67 GHz 200W $399
RTX 3070 8GB 5,888 1.70 GHz 220W $499
Radeon 6800 16GB 3,840 2.1 GHz 250W $579
Radeon 6800 XT 16GB 4,608 2.25 GHz 300W $649
RTX 3080 10GB 8,704 1.71 GHz 320W $699
RTX 3090 24GB 10,496 1.73 GHz 350W $1,499

While specs rarely line up with real-world performance, the biggest thing to note is that the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti is at the bottom end of the product stack from NVIDIA and has the same exact MSRP as the AMD Radeon 5700 XT. So, from a price-to-performance standpoint, that will be the card to beat for NVIDIA.

Note that the current supply is so poor that you will be lucky to find many of these cards for anywhere near the MSRP. However, we typically use the MSRP as a baseline for price in order to rule out fluctuations due to different brands, sales, and scarcity. The actual cost you will likely need to pay for either an AMD or NVIDIA card is likely to be quite a bit different, so keep that in mind as you read this article.

CTA Image
DaVinci Resolve Workstations

Puget Systems offers a range of powerful and reliable systems that are tailor-made for your unique workflow.

Configure a System!
CTA Image
Labs Consultation Service

Our Labs team is available to provide in-depth hardware recommendations based on your workflow.

Find Out More!

Test Setup

Listed below is the specifications of the system we will be using for our testing:

Test Platform
CPU AMD TR 3970X 32 Core
CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3
Motherboard Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI
RAM 4x Crucial DDR4-3200 16GB (64GB total)
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 OC 10GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16GB
AMD Radeon RX 6800 16GB
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB
Hard Drive Samsung 960 Pro 1TB
Software Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (Ver. 2009)
DaVinci Resolve Studio (Ver. 16.2.7)
PugetBench for DaVinci Resolve (Ver. 0.92.1)

*All the latest drivers, OS updates, BIOS, and firmware applied as of December 1st, 2020

To test each GPU, we will be using the fastest platform currently available for DaVinci Resolve – most notably the AMD Threadripper 3970X. Since Resolve can utilize the CPU heavily in some workloads, this should minimize the impact of the processor and allow each GPU to perform at their fullest potential.

For the testing itself, we will be using the 0.92.1 version of our PugetBench for DaVinci Resolve benchmark. If you wish to run our benchmark yourself, you can download the benchmark and compare your results to thousands of user-submitted results in our PugetBench database.

We will be using the "Extended" preset that includes both 4K, 8K media as well as specific GPU Effects and Fusion tests. Using 8K media with the RTX 3060 Ti (and other GPUs with only 8GB of VRAM) is actually not a good idea due to the "out of GPU memory" errors you would likely encounter, but our benchmark does not load the Resolve UI which means that the VRAM load is much lower; allowing GPUs with just 8GB of VRAM to successfully complete the 8K tests.

Raw Benchmark Results

While we are going to go through our analysis of the testing in the next section, we always like to provide the raw results for those that want to dig into the details. If there is a specific task you tend to perform in your workflow, examining the raw results is going to be much more applicable than our more general analysis.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB DaVinci Resolve Studio GPU Performance Benchmark
Image
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB DaVinci Resolve Studio GPU Performance Benchmark
Open Full Resolution

Overall DaVinci Resolve Performance Analysis

While many reviewers like to solely look at things like temporal noise reduction (often to an unrealistic degree) or OpenFX that heavily utilize the GPU, we first want to start off by looking at the overall performance we saw from our DaVinci Resolve benchmark with each GPU in order to show what most users would likely experience in their day-to-day work.

Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Previous Next
System Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Gallery Image
Previous Next

Looking at the Overall Extended Score, the new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti does very well; scoring within a few percent of the more expensive RTX 3070 and previous generation RTX 2080 Ti.

Compared to the AMD GPUs we tested, the RTX 3060 Ti is even more attractive. Not only does it beat the AMD Radeon 5700 XT by a large 30%, but it even manages to best the Radeon 6800 and 6800 XT by over 10%. The 6800 (XT) does have the advantage of having twice the VRAM, although that typically is only a consideration for those working with 6K+ timelines. And at that point, however, most users will likely want to use the RTX 3080 due to how much faster it is compared to the AMD GPUs.

Bear in mind that this looking at the Overall Extended Score which measures the performance in all of our tests – including a number that can be CPU bound. To get a better idea of the maximum performance difference between these cards, we should hone in on the "GPU Effects" portion of our benchmark which looks at tasks like TNR and various GPU-accelerated OpenFX.

GPU Score Analysis

DaVinci Resolve Studio GPU OpenFX Noise Reduction benchmark performance NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB
Image
DaVinci Resolve Studio GPU OpenFX Noise Reduction benchmark performance NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB
Open Full Resolution

The GPU effects portion of our benchmarks looks at the performance of individual GPU-accelerated effects such as temporal noise reduction, film grain, lens blur, optical flow, face refinement, and more. In our testing, these effects easily show the largest benefit from having a powerful GPU, which means that they should give us the best look at the maximum performance gain you may encounter from each of the GPUs we are testing.

In this test, the RTX 3060 Ti continues to out-perform all of the AMD GPUs we tested. It may be only ~7% faster than the significantly more expensive Radeon 6800 XT, but the RTX 3060 Ti is just shy of 2x faster than the Radeon 5700 XT.

Compared to the higher-end NVIDIA GPUs, the RTX 3060 Ti is of course at the bottom of the stack (as it should be). However, the RTX 3070 is only about 8% faster which is about right considering it has a $100 higher MSRP. The RTX 3080 and 3090 are really where NVIDIA takes off from a performance standpoint, with those cards being 54% and 78% faster than the RTX 3060 Ti respectively.

How well does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB perform in DaVinci Resolve Studio?

Overall, the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a very solid GPU for DaVinci Resolve. At most, the RTX 3060 Ti trails the RTX 3070 by just 8%, but can be as much as 2x faster than the AMD Radeon 5700 XT. This also makes the RTX 3060 Ti faster than any AMD GPU we have tested to date, besting even the Radeon 6800 XT which costs significantly more. This makes it a terrific option for those on a tighter budget.

If you need more performance, the RTX 3080 and 3090 are of course going to be significantly faster than the RTX 3060 Ti, but for just $399, the RTX 3060 Ti holds its own very well. Especially if you do not use many OpenFX or noise reduction, you may opt to use the RTX 3060 Ti over the more powerful (and expensive) cards in order to devote more of your budget to a more powerful CPU, more RAM, or faster storage.

As always, keep in mind that these results are strictly for DaVinci Resolve. If you have performance concerns for other applications in your workflow, we highly recommend checking out our Hardware Articles (you can filter by "Video Card") for the latest information on how a range of applications perform with the latest AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as with different CPUs and other hardware.

CTA Image
DaVinci Resolve Workstations

Puget Systems offers a range of powerful and reliable systems that are tailor-made for your unique workflow.

Configure a System!
CTA Image
Labs Consultation Service

Our Labs team is available to provide in-depth hardware recommendations based on your workflow.

Find Out More!

Related Content

  • Impact of PCIe 5.0 Bandwidth on GPU Content Creation Performance
  • NVIDIA 5060 Ti vs. AMD 9060 XT for Content Creation
  • NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Content Creation Review
  • Puget Mobile 16″ Laptop (2025) Product Showcase
View All Related Content

Latest Content

  • Impact of PCIe 5.0 Bandwidth on GPU Content Creation Performance
  • Network-Attached Storage Guide
  • NVIDIA 5060 Ti vs. AMD 9060 XT for Content Creation
  • Unreal Engine 5.6: Faster Open Worlds, Smoother Animation, Better ICVFX
View All
Tags: AMD, DaVinci Resolve, NVIDIA, NVIDIA vs AMD, Radeon RX 5700 XT, Radeon RX 6800, Radeon RX 6800 XT, RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070, RTX 3080, RTX 3090

Who is Puget Systems?

Puget Systems builds custom workstations, servers and storage solutions tailored for your work.

We provide:

Extensive performance testing
making you more productive and giving better value for your money

Reliable computers
with fewer crashes means more time working & less time waiting

Support that understands
your complex workflows and can get you back up & running ASAP

A proven track record
as shown by our case studies and customer testimonials

Get Started

Browse Systems

Puget Systems Mobile Laptop Workstation Icon

Mobile

Puget Systems Tower Workstation Icon

Workstations

Puget Systems Rackmount Workstation Icon

Rackstations

Puget Systems Rackmount Server Icon

Servers

Puget Systems Rackmount Storage Icon

Storage

Latest Articles

  • Impact of PCIe 5.0 Bandwidth on GPU Content Creation Performance
  • Network-Attached Storage Guide
  • NVIDIA 5060 Ti vs. AMD 9060 XT for Content Creation
  • Unreal Engine 5.6: Faster Open Worlds, Smoother Animation, Better ICVFX
  • Unreal Fest 2025: Highlights from Orlando
View All

Post navigation

 Adobe Premiere Pro – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti PerformanceGPU Rendering – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Performance 
Puget Systems Logo
Build Your Own PC Site Map FAQ
facebook instagram linkedin rss twitter youtube

Optimized Solutions

  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Solidworks
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Machine Learning

Workstations

  • Content Creation
  • Engineering
  • Scientific PCs
  • More

Support

  • Online Guides
  • Request Support
  • Remote Help

Publications

  • All News
  • Puget Blog
  • HPC Blog
  • Hardware Articles
  • Case Studies

Policies

  • Warranty & Return
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Delivery Times
  • Accessibility

About Us

  • Testimonials
  • Careers
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Newsletter

© Copyright 2025 - Puget Systems, All Rights Reserved.