GPU accelleration does not seem to work in 2021

Also, be sure you buy a "cancel any time" monthly subscription, not an annual subscription with monthly payments... and also be sure you cancel before your monthly subscription renews for another month

SOME programs are available Monthly https://community.adobe.com/t5/Get-Started/Being-charged-for-a-full-year-when-i-m-on-month-to-month/td-p/10248222 - links and pictures

>Does Premiere Pro support 'real' GPU acceleration?

Sometimes

Not everything uses CUDA - and other hardware acceleration notes
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-all-about-hardware-encoding-in-premiere-pro-14-2/m-p/11150057/thread-id/272665?page=1
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gpu-in-premiere-pro/td-p/10751263
https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/GPU-Rendering-Unavailable/td-p/10726745
Not on Mac https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/Does-anyone-know-if-cuda-is-supported-in-the-latest-release-of/td-p/10715395
New cards come out faster than Adobe can test and certify... if your card has 1Gig of video ram it should work... but do be aware that video drivers SOMETIMES cause problems, so you may need to update your video driver at the vendor site

Premiere Elements does not use GPU acceleration in the traditional sense. It can't use your GPU's power to improve performance or to create a hard render of your video. It merely uses your GPU's power to soft-render certain video effects.

My tutorial shows you more details.