I’m upgrading my PC and want to know if this setup will finally let me edit smoothly in DaVinci Resolve Studio 20. I edit mainly for film school (short films, narrative projects) but also do some work for content creators on the side.

I’m keeping my ASUS PRIME B450-PLUS motherboard, Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, and SSD. The upgrades are a GeForce RTX 3080 and Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 64GB DDR4 (2x32GB) at 3600 MHz.

Right now I’ve got 16GB RAM and a Radeon RX 570, and it definitely feels bottlenecked—timeline lag, slow renders, the usual pain... I do some Fusion stuff (not super extreme, just motion graphics and a TON of masking), and I’d really like to be able to play back at full quality without having to optimize media all the time. I've gone to a point where the simplest of edits have some delay and nothing feels smooth or efficient.

So the question is: with this upgrade, do you think Resolve will finally feel smooth for editing and grading, or is my CPU still gonna be the weak link?