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June 21, 2020
Question

Adobe Premiere Pro 14.3.0 not Using AMD Vega 11 GPU

  • June 21, 2020
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Hello

 

Following is my system configuration

 

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with Radeon Vega 11 Graphics

MB: Asrock B450M Steel Legend

RAM: 16GB DDR4

HDD: 512 NVMe

OS: Win 10 Pro

 

I am trying to edit a 4K video, following details from VLC player.

 

Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)

 

Premiere Pro is not utilizing the GPU and only the CPU is being used for playback of the video in Premiere Pro. However when I use VLC mediaplayer, the GPU seems to be doing most of the work and the CPU is running at 4-5% approx. 

 

How can I get Premiere Pro to utilize the GPU? 

 

Under Project settings : Mercury Play Back Engine OpenCL is selected. 

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Legend
June 24, 2020

I have just seen a new result with your CPU and integrated GPU setup (albeit with a different motherboard, chipset and storage configuration). As it turned out, the extremely poor scores that I saw were with a lesser Ryzen 3 G-series APU and Vega 8 graphics. The one with the 2400G and Vega 11 graphics scored fairly respectably, with the biggest bottleneck being the export score (probably because that system had a slow HDD instead of an SSD for the projects/media/exports drive). Live playback score was typical for a 4-core/8-thread CPU that was three years old (the vintage that the original Zen architecture dated from). Your 2400G, despite being numbered in the 2000-series, actually used the first-generation Zen architecture of the Ryzen 1000-series CPUs. Similarly, the Ryzen 3000G series used the Zen+ architecture of the 2000-series CPUs rather than the Zen2 architecture of the non-G 3000-series CPUs.

 

I hope this helps you match the GPU to your CPU.

Legend
June 21, 2020

I am very sorry to tell you this, but Premiere Pro does not currently support decoding of H.264 or HEVC video with a discrete GPU or a non-Intel GPU. You will need VCN decoding support for that 2400G. Until Adobe implements that, you are currently stuck with software-only decoding.

Participant
June 22, 2020

Hi, 

 

Thanks for the reply and for clarifying. So if I were to get a Nvidia GTX1650 based card will this be resolved? Or my being on a AMD processor will still be a problem. 

 

Considering H.264 is pretty much a stadard these days, this looks like a rather large miss by Adobe. 

 

 

Legend
June 22, 2020

Adobe does not currently support NVDEC either. Only Intel QuickSync is currently supported at all for decoding.

 

However, since version 14.2, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder can use most discrete Nvidia and AMD GPUs for exporting to H.264 or HEVC.