Is my 2010 Mac Pro sufficient for Adobe Premiere?

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April 6, 2020
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I recently acquired a Mac Pro (Mid 2010) and am running High Sierra with the following specs:

Processor: 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Memory: 24 GB 1066 MHz DDR3

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB

I tried running the latest version of Adobe Premiere and it ends up performing ridiculously slowly, eventually I get the spinning wheel of death and have to force quit. I know nothing about graphics cards and such. Do I need to update my graphics card to be able to use Premiere? Or would it help to run a previous version of Premiere instead? Any input on what I can do to my comptuer to get it to run adobe properly is much appreciated.

I traded a 2015 iMac with 32GB of RAM for this Mac Pro and now I'm wondering if I should have kept the iMac instead. It seemed to run Premiere just fine.

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typ41072781

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The 2010 Mac Pro is very expandable. With a few upgrades (particularly CPU and GPU) you'll be able to get this thing performing much better than your former iMac. Do the research, there is lots of threads and YouTube videos on upgrading these things.

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RjL190365

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But then, the discussion starter would be very limited in the CPU generation. The 2010 Mac Pro's CPU socket cannot accept anything newer than a Westmere Xeon X56xx series in the long-obsolete LGA 1366 socket. Newer workstation CPUs require LGA 2011 of two different generations, and later LGA 2066. None of those sockets are at all compatible with one another.

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RjL190365

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You should have kept the iMac instead, in this case:

You actually downgraded in both performance and compatibility with newer programs when you did the trade. That single quad-core CPU is actually slower and weaker overall than even a cheapo dual-core CPU of recent times. And that HD 5870 is not Metal-compatible, so you have absolutely no GPU acceleration at all whatsoever.