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CPU with or without onchip GPU
I’m considering using an i5 12400F as an upgrade for my edit workstation. I currently use an old i7-33770 which has on chip GPU along with a GTX1650 card.
So my question is does Premiere Pro take advantage of both GPU card and the CPU GPU concurrently when encoding and during timeline playback (ie buy the more expensive i5 12400) or does Premiere only use one or the other GPU.
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Excuse the typo, should be:
old i7-3770
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No, AFAIK Premiere only uses one or other (hardware encoding vs software encoding). From past experience I’ve also found that if your GPU isn’t on the supported list then whenever you have GPU problems, the support team just point to that and say “Oh well, it’s not on the supported list, why did you think it would work?”
You can see the list of supported graphics cards here: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/premiere-pro/system-requirements/2023.html#graphics-cards
Even though Quadro cards are supported, Premiere doesn’t seem to get as much out of them as as the GeForce cards IMO.
Also, although Premiere will use the GPU for rendering, having a powerful CPU can also make a huge difference in interpreting visual effects, scrubbing video, caching preview files and much more. If you’re ever going to touch 4K files, I would recommend using at least an i7 processor, and if you work with 4K every day, or above 4k then personally I’d be looking for an i9 with at least 10 dual cores.
Hope that helps, PC specs are all very subjective and it can be difficult to make a decision…. all the best with your choices 🙂
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Thanks for your comments. I know the encoding is select either software OR hardware but with a CPU with on chip graphics, wondered if Premiere takes advantage of all display processors available. So uses BOTH the CPU display processors AND the PCI-E GPU. Or if you had two GPU boards would premiere take advantage of all 3. And if not how does it decide which GPU to use.
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You want to avoid using “Integrated” GPU that is part of the CPU in all cases.
Adobe Pr will use the GPU for those FX that are flagged as accelerated (blue icon folder with 3 bars and play triangle) … for timeline playback.
For encoding final output that will vary pending your settings, some options are not supported by GPU so the fallback will be CPU rendering.
This link should answer all your questions for GPU acceleration.
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/gpu-acceleration-and-hardware-encoding.html
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Many thanks for the link Rob. Just the info I’m after.
Thanks for all the help guys.
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