• Adobe Premiere Pro

  System Upgrade for Premier Pro CC2017

  Posted by Steve Adams on November 11, 2018 at 4:16 pm

  I’ve been made aware (by John Pale here) that my six-year old Dell T3600 is woefully lacking the hardware Adobe recommends for PP CC2017. The processor is a 3.0 GHz quad-core XEON, which seems close to the “6th generation” Intel CPUs recommended, that have quad cores and run at less than 3.0GHz, so it seems like I’m ok there. And I can upgrade my memory from 8GB to the 32GB recommended, so that’s not a problem. But the GPU chip I have is only 512MB where Adobe recommends 4GB. Can I just buy a new graphics card with a 4GB GPU and plug it into my box? Has anyone done this and found a card that works especially well with PP CC2017?

  Thanks for any help.

  Steve Adams replied 7 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Todd Perchert

  November 13, 2018 at 3:12 pm

  GTX 1050’s are around $150 now. Pretty inexpensive. 1060 around $200. And up and up.

  But here’s Adobe’s requirements: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cc-gpu-card-faq.html

  Note, they do say on that page, if a card isn’t listed, you can assume it works fine if it meets their requirements:
  The card was released in the year 2014 or afterwards
  It has the minimum amount of graphics processor VRAM required for Photoshop (512 MB). The recommended amount of VRAM is 2 GB or more, though.
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  Todd Perchert

  November 13, 2018 at 3:14 pm

  Oh, and with those cards and that computer… I am assuming you don’t have anything plugged into either one of your PCIe 3.0 slots. If you do, you may not get full performance out of the card.
  TC
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  Steve Adams

  November 13, 2018 at 6:43 pm

  Thank you for that information! By the way, the link you provided seems to be for Photoshop rather than Premier Pro. I think the Premier Pro link mighjt be https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements/2019.html#gpu-acceleration.

  Thanks

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