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acolyyte
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August 16, 2017
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AMD Ryzen Underperforming in AfterEffects

  • August 16, 2017
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So I've been put in charge of building new workstations for our creative department. After looking at several reviews and benchmarks I decided to go with the new Ryzen 1700 8 core processors for the build. After completing the first 'pilot' workstation, everything runs amazing on it, far outstripping our old computers, except for one specific use case. RAM previewing and encoding on AME are noticeably slower than our old Intel i7-4770K chips clocked at 3.5 GHZ. I was blown away by this, but after some further research it seems with Adobe ditching multi frame rendering, AE no longer scales with newer multicore chips. I'm now looking at returning the AMD chip and motherboard and getting an Intel Core i7 7740K 4 Core clocked at 4.3 GHZ.

It seems absolutely ridiculous that higher core CPU's are at a disadvantage in AE. I've tried overclocking and even downcoring to match the i7 quad specs (which seem to be the best choice out there specifically for RAM previews and encoding). Is Adobe planning on adding back in features that take advantage of higher core processors? I'm at a bit of a loss what to do here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Correct answer Szalam

See this page for benchmarks of various processors in AE.

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Szalam
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SzalamCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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August 17, 2017

See this page for benchmarks of various processors in AE.

    Warren Heaton
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    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
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    August 17, 2017

    How about use the new machines to render to something that renders quickly and is lossless.  Then use the older machines to do the H264 encode from that?

    Dave_LaRonde
    Dave_LaRonde
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    August 16, 2017

    acolyyte  wrote

    ...Is Adobe planning on adding back in features that take advantage of higher core processors? I'm at a bit of a loss what to do here.

    Yes, Adobe has a speedier AE envisioned, but it's still in the works, they aren't breathing a word about any details, and they won't say when they'll be finished.

    Helpful, huh?

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    fl2k
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    August 16, 2017

    I'm building a new PC right now, and I'm also getting an 8-core processor (AMD A8 - 8350).  I'm not sure how it will run yet, but When I get it up and running, I'll tell you if I have the same problem.  (I'm overclocking to around 6GHz, because you can speed things up quite a bit if you have liquid cooling...)

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