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February 16, 2025
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Intel Arc A750 Not Properly Used in After Effects, Media Encoder & Premiere Pro

  • February 16, 2025
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Hello everyone,

I'm currently using an Intel Arc A750 GPU with an Intel i5-13500F processor. I thought this would be a great combination, but I'm facing a lot of performance issues in Adobe applications.

  • After Effects & Media Encoder: The GPU is not being fully utilized, even though I have enabled all necessary settings. Rendering times are unexpectedly long.
  • Premiere Pro: Initially, it wasn’t working at all, but now it runs sometimes. However, I still face issues when importing files from After Effects.

I have tried:
✅ Setting GPU acceleration to OpenCL
✅ Adding Adobe apps in Windows Graphics settings
✅ Updating Intel Arc drivers & Adobe apps

Despite all this, I still face performance issues. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

1 reply

jefubbudu
Inspiring
February 16, 2025

Adobe's software, at least the good ones  are all older than GPU's in general. I'm convinced all GPU code in them is basically a hack, considering how low level you need to go to use them effectively.

nishu_kush
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 17, 2025

What kind of performance issues are you getting? Can you share a screen recording that shows the problem? How much RAM is installed on your machine? After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Media Encoder only use GPU with GPU-enabled effects and actions. I hope that makes sense.

Let us know.


Thanks,
Nishu

jefubbudu
Inspiring
February 19, 2025

That's the entire issue. They claim After Effects uses GPU when everything but the most simple plug and play effects aren't even 16 bit, let alone work on GPU. Turning off hardware acceleration simply makes it more predictable and stable, and honestly isn't slower by any significant margin. I've been keeping with the changelogs, so I know better than to risk my employment on a subscription software. We use CS6 here, because it's faster, and none of the newer features are useful if you actually know what you're doing. Also mocha is great.