Premiere CS6 perfomance lacks behind on MBP

[Dennis Radeke]

[Morten Ranmar] “But regarding the GPU questioning, the program does opt me to choose Mercury GPU acceleration in Project settings, even though my GPU apparently is not supported.”

512MB of RAM does not meet the minimum requirements for GPU acceleration. You really need 1GB of RAM (maybe 768MB) to get any kind of performance boost. Internally, we could flag it to truly turn it on and our testing showed that it didn’t give you boost. If you’ve done the ‘hack’, then you can probably light it up but you just won’t really see any performance improvement.

I tend to think that Apple goes light on GPU RAM because in most use cases it doesn’t need it and the RAM takes up space in a tight enclosure and creates heat which makes the design form a problem. I could be very wrong though – that’s just my personal opinion.

Hope this helps,
Dennis – Adobe guy