You would be looking at over $800,000 for a 16 GPU system. Resolve was the first DaVinci colour corrector to use off-the-shelf graphics processing units (GPUs – basically the chips on your computer’s graphics card) rather than racks and racks of dedicated hardware, and that $200 grand bought you just a single GPU. When Blackmagic Design bought DaVinci last year, the cheapest Resolve system was about $200,000.
The 2007 performed the task half as fast as the 2000 machine, even though its specification had improved in line with Moore’s Law. The most famous test of this was done in 2008, when the same tasks were performed in Office 2000, on a PC from 2000, and in Office 2007 on a PC from 2007. Basically, every generation of software bloats out enough to easily compensate for the increases in processing power. Moore’s law is pretty well known, but there is a less well known, compensating law – called the Great Moore’s Law Compensator (TGMLC). Though I was a computer nerd, it was a place I studiously avoided. Interestingly the human operators were deemed expendable in the event of a fire, the doors locked automatically and the computer room was flooded with an inert gas, snuffing out the fire, and the lives of any unfortunate person who couldn’t get to the single cupboard of breathing apparatus. My mobile phone now has processing capabilities that would embarrass the mainframe I used at University, and that filled the top floor of a tower block, needed its own air-conditioning unit and three people just to keep it running. Gordon was talking about transistors, but the rough upshot is that, for a given price, computers get twice as powerful about every two years. Resolve’s Color WindowIn 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore made an observation that, a few years later, became known as Moore’s Law.
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