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woooei
woooei
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August 7, 2018
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Best processor for After Effects and Premier Pro

  • August 7, 2018
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Hello,

I want to buy a new windows laptop, for editing video in After Effects and Premiere Pro. I'm wondering which processor I should choose:

- i5 or i7? Does that make a big difference?
- Intel U-series or H(Q)? Does that make a big difference?

I contacted a lot of computer shops and manufacturers. But they all advise something different. So I thought it would be useful to ask it to Adobe and it's users themselves.

Thanks in advance!

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David Arbor
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August 7, 2018

Go for the i7.

"U" means "Ultra-low power"

"HQ" means "High Performance, Quad Core"

The i7 builds are likely to be HQ. For After Effects, you'll want a fast, single-core clock speed, and the i7s are higher performing than the i5s.

woooei
woooeiAuthor
Participating Frequently
August 7, 2018

Thanks davidarbor!

In my research, I found a lot of i7 U-processors (like i7-8550). Will they perform less than a i7-7700HQ (for example)?

I found the specifications, but I don't know if it makes a big difference for Adobe Programme's.

open?id=1JgipoSehdcyCUOgezVt5SbBZ_IiG4sZw

I understand After Effects doesn't use the multiple cores. Does Premiere Pro use them? And Photoshop?

Szalam
Community Expert
SzalamCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 8, 2018

After Effects does use multiple cores. In fact, the UI and the renderer run on entirely separate threads (as of the CC 2015 release).

Now, what doesn't use as many cores as people would want is the rendering. Some effects are multithreaded (such as the grain effects and camera shake deblur) and the C4D renderer is fully multithreaded for rendering the 3d geometry it creates, but a lot of the rest of AE doesn't make use of multiple threads while rendering. Now, a growing amount of AE does render on the GPU (which is massively multithreaded), but that's not relevant to a discussion about which CPU to get .

In general, for After Effects, a higher clock speed is much more important than how many cores a processor has.

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