{"id":211857,"date":"2026-02-10T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/davinci-resolve-export-speed-test\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:45:07","slug":"davinci-resolve-export-speed-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/davinci-resolve-export-speed-test\/","title":{"rendered":"DaVinci Resolve Export Speed Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbreak.com\/we-expected-our-aed-26-000-sff-pc-to-beat-the-mac-studio-m3-ultra-it-didnt\/\">DaVinci Resolve Export Speed Test<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbreak.com\/we-expected-our-aed-26-000-sff-pc-to-beat-the-mac-studio-m3-ultra-it-didnt\/\">https:\/\/tbreak.com\/we-expected-our-aed-26-000-sff-pc-to-beat-the-mac-studio-m3-ultra-it-didnt\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-10 03:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"tbreak.com\">tbreak.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We built a custom Small Form Factor PC with an <strong>AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D<\/strong> and an <strong>Nvidia RTX 5090<\/strong>. This machine is a beast, and we expected it to eat every benchmark we&#8217;d throw at it. After all, we used the fastest consumer GPU you can buy, and a top-end CPU, crammed into an NCASE M2 that actually fits on a desk. The cost of this PC was close to AED 26,000 (about US$ 7,100) all in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside Our Ultimate Small Form Factor PC Build (RTX 5090 + Ryzen 9950X3D)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sa9G-4cYhHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then we compared it to a <strong>Mac Studio M3 Ultra<\/strong> with 256GB unified memory \u2014 Apple&#8217;s quietest flex of a workstation, that costs around AED 30,000. We ran them both through DaVinci Resolve 20 (Free), exporting H.264 with hardware encoding on.<\/p>\n<p>The SFF build won a sprint. <strong>The Mac won everything else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-machines\"><strong>The machines<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"the-sff-rtx-5090-build\"><strong>The SFF RTX 5090 build<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D<\/li>\n<li>GPU: ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB)<\/li>\n<li>Case: NCASE M2<\/li>\n<li>Cooling: Corsair 280mm AIO<\/li>\n<li>PSU: ASUS ROG Loki 1200W SFX-L<\/li>\n<li>Windows 25H2, Nvidia Game Ready 591.86<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"mac-studio-m3-ultra-256gb\"><strong>Mac Studio M3 Ultra (256GB)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Chip: Apple M3 Ultra (32 cores: 24P + 8E)<\/li>\n<li>Unified memory: 256GB<\/li>\n<li>macOS 26.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Worth noting: <strong>the SFF build is the cheaper machine here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-actually-happened-in-resolve\">What actually happened in Resolve<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"fusion-heavy-comps\">Fusion-heavy comps<\/h3>\n<p>This is the stress test \u2014 motion graphics, compositing, heavy timelines. The kind of work that exposes a machine quickly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tbreak.com\/content\/images\/2026\/02\/DaVinci-Resolve.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tbreak.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/02\/DaVinci-Resolve.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tbreak.com\/content\/images\/size\/w1000\/2026\/02\/DaVinci-Resolve.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/tbreak.com\/content\/images\/2026\/02\/DaVinci-Resolve.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 720px) 720px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mac Studio: real-time preview. SFF PC: mostly smooth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We used three real exports of videos we&#8217;ve produced and published on YouTube and Instagram, with the same settings on both machines (H.264, hardware encoding on).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Export 1: <\/strong><strong>Aion Hyptec SSR<\/strong><strong> \u2014 1-minute HD clip<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mac Studio: 00:11<\/li>\n<li>SFF PC: <strong>00:10<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SFF wins. One second. Exactly what you&#8217;d expect from this hardware on a short clip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Export 2: <\/strong><strong>Dreame Wet + Dry Vacuum<\/strong><strong> \u2014 11m:29s HD clip<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mac Studio: <strong>01:40<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SFF PC: 02:05<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where it starts getting interesting. Twenty-five seconds is a real gap on an 11-minute export. The Mac just&#8230; sustained its pace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Export 3: <\/strong><strong>GWM Tank 300 Review<\/strong><strong> \u2014 47-minute 4K export<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mac Studio: <strong>07:45<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SFF PC: 09:49<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last export took me by surprise. While the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbreak.com\/we-expected-our-aed-26-000-sff-pc-to-beat-the-mac-studio-m3-ultra-it-didnt\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DaVinci Resolve Export Speed Test https:\/\/tbreak.com\/we-expected-our-aed-26-000-sff-pc-to-beat-the-mac-studio-m3-ultra-it-didnt\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-10 03:45:00 Source Domain: tbreak.com We built&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tbreak.com\/content\/images\/size\/w1200\/2026\/02\/SFF-UGPC-2026.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-211857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-mac-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211859,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211857\/revisions\/211859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}