Graphic Card (GC)

Question

There many recommended GC for Premiere Pro. I assume “recommended” mean it is good to have such GC. Computers come with built in GC. Therefore it is good to confirm particular built in GC is not good for Premiere Pro.  
 
What are the affects you can see if GC is not good?

Andy 1968 · Accepted Answer

If your GPU (grahpics card) is weak you will get dropped frames and slow playback. The GUI of Premiere Pro is not going to turn to red, white and blue or anything super crazy. That being said you need a matched system. Don't buy an RTX 2080 if you have a quadcore CPU but then again don't buy a GTX 1060 if you have a 16 core CPU. You can use the Windows Task Manager to find the weakest link in your system as seen in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKBCzCkvBT8

Abambo · Answer

The recommended graphics cards are those that Adobe recommends and where Adobe thinks that the performance is adequate. But all also depends on the complexity of your edits and the video size that you intend to edit. 8k video takes more resources than half VGA. If your specific graphics card is not listed, you will need to interpolate, by seeing if the card with a performance level just below or just ahead is recommended.

If your graphics card is not fast enough, you will not be able to adequately edit a video.

But it's also the overall system that is important. And given the current graphics card prices, it may be a good approach to use what you have currently and see if it is still adequate. To change the graphics card afterwards in a desktop computer is not magic, even for a lesser talented hardware builder. This is not true for laptop users.

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