To be clear - Your Mac has BOTH the Intel 530 and the AMD.  When the machine is only using the Intel, it will only show that card in the "About This Mac" view: When the AMD card is active/in use, it will show up with the Intel card.  The way to show this is to: 1: Close any open "About This Mac" screen 2: Open Adobe Premiere (and open a project, and have it set to OpenCL for rendering) 3: Go back to "About This Mac" You should then see something like: ... View more

I would be hesitant to guide you any direction.  I am OK with betas, but I am very comfortable wiping my machine and getting back to non-beta, if needed. ... View more

thx.  I just finished a hour long export that included some straight footage and a long after effects composition.  No problems. ... View more

Just an update for everyone on my current experience. Below is my basic machine specs, and importantly, the OS version. I have jumped into the beta program, and I updated the machine to 10.12.3 Beta 4 last night. Since that time, I have been able to use Premiere, with OpenCL rendering, and things are working without crashing.... so far.  I am not going to tell you all is great quite yet, as I'll need to spend a lot more time editing.  Here's to hoping Apple has this resolved. ... View more

Adding myself to this thread.  I have the latest & greatest MBP touchbar with the top AMD 4GB vid card.  This is actually my second laptop, as apple has already replaced it once.  new one has the exact same issue - lockup in premiere within a few minutes of use, with the red/green screen freak out.  Really frustrated at this point. ... View more