New computer - After Effects slow - Performance used 5%

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Hi,To speed up my work, I recently bought a new computer. Unfortunately After Effects (and illustrator) are running slower(!) then my old pc did. I use the fastest SSD possible for my files, scratchdisks, databases, caches and all. I have GPU power enabled, without any result. Also my computer is only using 5% of its CPU power and 19% of its memory. What am I doing wrong? Please help.                Processor:      AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor          (16 CPUs), ~3.4GHz                   Memory:      65536MB RAM          DirectX Version:   DirectX 12Card name:                     NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 TiSincerely,Gijs

Mylenium · Accepted Answer

What am I doing wrong?You bought a new computer without asking beforehand. That's all there is to it. There's a gigazillion threads on this forum that explain how limited AE is with parallel processing and multithreading and how it baerely uses any GPU. You are looking for something that doesn't exist and there is no magical switch that can fix it for you. You simply bought an Edsel. The same could be said for Illustrator - most of its operations are single-threaded even, so it never uses any extra CPU cores. Any additional slowdowns may also be caused by GPU compatibility issues, but perhaps you can fix at least those by updating the graphics driver.Mylenium

֑nubnubbud · Answer

big oof.you probably got something with a lot of cores, a beefy GPU, and 64 gigs of RAM...and yep that seems the case. minus the GPU.believe it or not you could do worse. After Effects is a 1993 program. that means for two computers with equal speed and transistors, the one with more cores is going to be much slower, because AE will only use one per frame at a time. I highly suggest getting the latest 4-core CPU from intel like an i3-13100. Not sure how the others in the line up will work because they have multiple core sizes. maybe efficiency cores (which are locked to 1 thread) are faster for AE. the i3-13100 has 4 cores, but new dense archetecture means if you turn off hyperthreading, it should be faster than a lot of even higher cost cards for AE specifically.AE is from like 30 years ago. it hates today's hardware (which you seem aware of, getting a 1080.) I would turn off GPU btw. it's unstable. AE was never made for it.

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