Render times slow with ASRock Intel ARC A380 Challenger ITX 6GB

[FlackTVCorp]

Hello everyone, I am new to all of this, so please forgive me.  I have Adobe Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements bundle bought at Staples.  Install went fine. All of the latest drivers for this Intel ARC card is up to date.  My question(s) is: How much should Premiere Elements be utilizing my GPU and when? For example, I open up the performance monitor and watch it on another monitor when I am working, applying effects, etc. I don’t see much activity for both the GPU but I do see a lot of CPU activity. I was wondering if it is possible, to give me an example of what render times should be in the scenario below. Again, this is a rough scenario, plain jane if you will. 

Note: I did look in settings and I noticed that all the selections are check marked for GPU processing. I believe there are three.  The INTEL word is greyed out w/ the check mark as well. So, I see it is set to render with my GPU.

Scenarios:
I placed five videos shot on a go-pro like camera at the lowest 720P FPS. Together it is a 19:30 minutes.  I did the “export” option with the GPU options UNCHECKED. It took about 6 minutes.
Then I re-check the options so that it would render using the GPU.  The result was the same time to render. As it was rendering, I watched the performance monitor and the GPU was like hardly even used. Like 15-20% - I would expect that when using just the CPU, the CPU cranks at 100%. Why is the GPU not doing its job?

What times can I expect? Are there charts out there to look at with examples of systems w/ specs to compare render times? I understand  there are a lot of additional variables that can change things.

Any help you ca offer would be great. I thought rendering a 20 min video would be a lot faster. I haven’t even added any effects, transitions, etc.

Setup:
OS: Windows 11 Pro
GPU: ASRock Intel ARC A380 Challenger ITX 6GB OC GDDR6 CPU
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700x 8-Core, 16 Thread
Memory: CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz
SSD: Kingston NV2 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe Internal SSD | PCIe 4.0 Gen 4x4 | Up to 3500 MB/s | SNV2S/1000G

Thanks: FlackTV

[John T Smith]

You don't mention your version... for my PrElements 2021 (2025 is current) rendering is only to make the video play smoothly on the timeline... not for exporting

Even the 'big version' Premiere Pro only uses the GPU for 'some' effects, not for everything

[Ann Bens]

(Render) Export time depend on a lot of stuff such as codec. Cameras such as gopro produce an edit unfriendly codec. e.g. editing H.265 will add to the export time.

Export is also depended on whether is has to use the cpu or gpu for specific tasks.

If you are on 2025 post screenshot project settings/general and Preferences/Media.

[tomek398]

Which version do you use?