I just bought a PC and my 4k editing in premiere is still rough.. help plz

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January 28, 2020
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I just bought this PC and was hoping it would make editing in 4k easier but without proxies it's still skipping when i'm going through clips in a sequence. I'm more than willing to upgrade parts of the PC but i'm not entirely sure what's causing the slow down. Here are my specs:

Intel i7-9700K, 32GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD + 2TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 500W Bronze PSU

I know my videocard isn't great but from everything I've read and heard the videocard isn't that important when just scrubbing through footage in premiere without effects. I have my scratch disk on my SSD NVME m.2 drive so i feel like the write speed should be the problem. and the CPU and RAM should be fine. Any ideas what I could/ should invest in so that I can scour through my clips without proxies? Any help is greatly appreciated!

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John T Smith

Community Expert

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/PugetBench-for-Premiere-Pro-1519/
-Benchmark test program available for Premiere Pro CC2019 and CC2020

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RjL190365

Legend

As of the latest version 0.86b of that benchmark program, only Premiere Pro 2020 is supported.

And I did run the Standard preset of that benchmark on my current system. And given that my GTX 1060 6 GB card produced a much lower overall score with heavy GPU effects than my current AMD Ryzen R7 3800X did with heavy CPU effects, the discussion starter's GTX 1060 3 GB would not even run the Puget Systems' benchmark properly (which means that if the benchmark were to have run at all, the scores would have been skewed substanbtially lower due to the benchmark being forced to run in MPE software-only mode for nearly the entire length) because it does not have enough VRAM to support the testing (it requires 4 GB or more VRAM just to run at all). Even the discussion starter's i7-9700K's score with heavy CPU effects is significantly higher than the GTX 1060 6 GB's score was with heavy GPU effects.

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RjL190365

Legend

Actually, the GPU's relative performance should closely match that of the CPU for best performance in Premiere Pro. In your case, although the i7-9700K is not a great CPU for video editing, that GTX 1060 3 GB card is even worse: It is seriously mismatched to the CPU. In fact, that GPU is only about half the relative overall performance of your CPU. And couple that with the fact that the amount of VRAM on that card is less than the minimum that Adobe recommends, and your system might have ended up running out of usable VRAM.

In other words, your GPU is effectively choking off your CPU. In fact, an underpowered GPU can - and does - prevent a CPU from ever becoming fully utilized even when the job demands it.

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Qengineering

Inspiring

So, your "scratch" is on the same drive as your operating system and applications?

Define Scratch for us - Media Cache, Peak Files, actual media (video) files, etc...

It's recommended to NOT use your System/Application storage for your media or cache.