RADEON VII Card not recommended for Adobe Premiere???

I've moved this from the Premiere Pro forum to the Video Hardware forum.

Here's the catch:

Adobe has spent much less time on the development of OpenCL GPU acceleration support versus CUDA GPU acceleration support in Premiere Pro to begin with. As a result, its OpenCL performance continues to lag behind its CUDA performance at every hardware price point, except for perhaps the very lowest performance tier.

Secondly, many of the major companies that once supported OpenCL have now either depreciated OpenCL support or stopped supporting that API altogether. And OpenCL itself is now under depreciated, if not discontinued, development. Plus, AMD and Intel have not yet found a Windows-compatible GPGPU API that was expected to replace OpenCL. As a result of all that, it would not be surprising at all that a future version of Premiere Pro would revert completely to software-only MPE rendering for all non-Nvidia GPUs in Windows, with depreciation beginning with the next major version of Premiere Pro (15.x).

Working on program stability/bug-fixes and improvements, or ... testing GPUs. Especially given how many GPUs there are, and that to test for any useful benchmark, you would need to test the every GPU on many different machine configurations ... hmmm.

No, personally, I'd prefer them to stay workin mainly on the program itself. Personal opinion, of course.

This is where Puget, SafeHarbor Computing and others step in and provide such assistance. Thankfully.

Neil

The AMD Radeon VII does get used in workstations with Premiere Pro installed.

Puget Systems included it along with the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and a range of NVIDIDA cards in this review:

Premiere Pro CC 2019: AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX
Written on March 29, 2019 by Matt Bach

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Premiere-Pro-CC-2019-AMD-Radeon-VII-vs-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-1395/#AMDRadeonVegavsNVIDIAGeForceRTXforPremiereProCC2019

Matt concludes the following in his article, "Having more VRAM than you need doesn't give you any better performance, so unless you are using a plug-in or other application that actually needs 16GB of VRAM, the Radeon VII is simply a worse choice for Premiere Pro than an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 or 2080."

They don't have a team of people testing cards. So don't assume that is an exhaustive list, it's not meant as one. That list is from the ones that either they've used in-house or have other confirmed usage or simply that the specs for the card ... generation of "architecture" and drivers, amount of vRAM, are usable by Premiere.

Note the oldest Nvidia cards ... that generation and newer for Nvidia, and the same for AMD cards. Those set an 'old gear' limit. Anything newer with acceptable amounts of RAM is fine.

Neil