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D3stroyah
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February 18, 2017
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Minimum Execution units for enabling Mercury Engine.

  • February 18, 2017
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Hi, every time i want to start a thread here i give up even before trying but i so hope someone will have an answer to my question since i'm sure even Adobe doesn't have one.

How many execution units on your integrated gpu are necessary to allow mercury engine to work?

I tried with my integrated from the intel 6600k, which has 24EU and it worked flawlessly.

Then i tried with my notebook with just 12EU (Atom Z8300) but Premiere told me "not enough executions units available" and it won't allow me to use it. Naturally editing in "software only" is impossible, especially on low power machines.

Do you have experience with this matter? Some Intel processors have 18EU. Will them be enough? I'm not expecting to fly, just being able to use it.

thanks!!

ps. please don't link this page because it's total crap Premiere Pro System Requirements for Mac OS and Windows​

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    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    February 18, 2017

    Fascinating ... several years of answering posts here, this is the first time I've seen someone ask about execution units in an integrated graphics processor. Will be interesting to see what answer may come.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    D3stroyahAuthor
    Participant
    February 18, 2017

    well it's quite important to know and i expected adobe to write it down in the FAQ section since the software says "not enough units", it knows something about "what is not enough". I'm not spending 1000$ on a mobile machine if a 600$ one can make me edit something on the go even at a basic level, just enabling the mercury engine. The question seems very legit to me

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    February 19, 2017

    Why aren't Execution Units discussed? An "Integrated graphics" unit is built to be used basically as part of (and reliant upon) the CPU ... it's not a completely different bit of hardware. To get accelerated graphics processing, you have to get away from the CPU and its resources.

    So most people are figuring out which dedicated graphics ... GPUs ... are best for their rig. PrPro is built to run primarily with CUDA cores ... and lacking that, OpenCL I believe.

    I went and checked about this some ... turns out my little i5 laptop has an Intel HD3000, with 6 execution units. And Mercury Playback is grayed out on this machine. In software mode, It barely runs HD ... 1280x720. 1080p is pretty much the limit, and then ... forget much in the way of effects.

    It might be possible to get Mercury Acceleration on an integrated graphics ... but I don't think I've ever heard of it.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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