Seeking spec recommendations for optimal performance (Premiere Pro)

[Ivan Eldredge]

Hi,

Regarding your current specifications and the projects you are currently processing, you are absolutely overdue for an upgrade. Here are my recommendations:

Motherboard & Processor: You would benefit from upgrading to a modern Intel i7 or i9 (13th Gen) or AMD Ryzen 7 or Ryzen 9 processor. Those processors can handle 4K footage and heavy practical effects a lot better, not to mention they can offload that activity from your graphics processing unit.

RAM: 16GB of RAM is low for your current workload. When working with 4K footage, you would want to get to 32GB–64GB of DDR4 (or DDR5 depending on your new board). The minimum recommended speed would be 3200MHz or higher.

Storage: You should consider replacing your current HDD drive with a NVMe SSD (500GB–1TB), which would allow for faster read / write speeds, and would greatly benefit high-resolution footage. You could always keep the HDD for general storage or backup, but you would need an SSD for editing.

Graphics Processing Unit: Your current graphics processing unit (GTX 750T) will not keep up with the actual needs for video editing. You might want to upgrade to something like an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or 4070 with a minimum of 8GB of VRAM performance. This will allow for future performance in rendering and using GPU accelerated effects.

Power Supply: Be sure to check if your power supply unit (PSU) could handle the individual specifications of the new parts, mostly the added power consumption of the new graphics processing unit.

Cooling: Be sure to think about cooling. If you’re upgrading to a higher performance CPU and GPU you will want a really good system (air or liquid cooling) as cooling is critical to system stability for high-action edits.

Overall, these recommended upgrades would increase your editing performance significantly, and provide future performance consideration for editing over the next couple of years.

Best,

Ivan Eldredge

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Ellis,

Ivan makes some very good points.

I would suggest that you’ll want a minimum of 64GB Ram (as fast as you can get it).
Minimum Intel i7 processor, i9 is even better.
1TB SSD drive for boot and software + 4TB for media.
NVidia ADA (A.I.) board.
You may need to look at your monitor, and upgrade that to 4K.

Depending on budget, you may want to consider buying a pre-built system. Some like HP, offers up to 5 year next day fix or swap for a fraction (10%ish) of the price of the PC.

For more info, we had earlier this year a very informative discussion:
https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/pc-for-premiere-in-2024/#post-2454645

Hope that this helps?

Atb
Mads

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[David Bowen]

If you’re looking for something to handle heavy lifting with graphics that’s also future-proofed to a reasonable degree, you’re going to need to get a bit spendy. I’d highly recommend either building your own machine or at least using a supplier that lets you customize your desired build that they’ll then make for you. Never buy a pre-built at any big box retailer.

Main Component $$ Priorities, in order: CPU, RAM, SSD, ((GPU)).

*CPU*

Go with Intel over AMD for CPU as Adobe takes great advantage of Intel’s Quick Sync tech.

Wait for 15th gen Arrow Lake to come out — should be Q4 of this year. Do not buy 14th Gen Raptor Lake, they’re terrible.

Get a -K or -KS designated i9 CPU for the future proofing. More $, but more better.

Intel’s CPUs have iGPU (which is how it supplies Quick Sync) so unless you buy a CPU with an “F” designation (those don’t have iGPU), you won’t need to buy a dedicated GPU. This saves you mucho dinero.

*RAM*

More RAM is better than faster RAM. Get 64GB+ — don’t settle for just 32GB; especially if you’re editing 4k. While DDR5 is nice and fancy, DDR4 is perfectly fine. While speed is important, you’ll get better performance going with moderate-speed 128GB than top-of-the-line-speed 64GB.

*SSD*

I say SSD and not Storage because there is no option but SSD. SSD only and the more TB the better.

*GPU*

Not Necessary! You will want an Intel i9 -K or -KS chip to take advantage specifically of the Quick Sync functionality that the Adobe suite loves so very much. Quick Sync vs. even a high end AMD GPU is night and day. If you have a dedicated GPU AND a CPU with integrated graphics (iGPU), the CPU will switch off the iGPU functionality and utilize the dedicated GPU by default. You’ll lose tons of performance specifically with the Adobe suite.

There are ways around this to make the GPU and iGPU play nice together, but it’s complicated. You’ll need to spend some time reading up on it – and you’ll need to figure out if a custom built PC bought online can provide that functionality or if you’ll have to DIY it yourself.

This is, of course, an ideal setup for the Adobe suite. You may find that you want a dedicated GPU for specific 3D-modeling programs like Maya, but like I said that will require fairly extensive research on your part to pull off.

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