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patrikl
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February 25, 2020
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AMD 5000M Graphics not supported?

  • February 25, 2020
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Anyone know when AMD 5000M series will be supported?

I use a MacBook Pro with 5300M Graphics and the card is not in use when Mercury Playback Engine GPU (Metal) is used. I have to use OpenCL, and this is slower on new Mac's right?

Thank you 🙂

Patrik

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R Neil Haugen
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February 25, 2020

By "not in use", what do you mean? As in for playback, where a GPU isn't normally used in Premiere, or for use on GPU-accelerated effects like Warp, frame-resizing, and color, where Premiere actually uses the GPU?

 

Neil

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
February 25, 2020

This video stuff makes stills work look like playdoh. And compared to most amateur work, pro stills work seems complicated. Yea. I know. 40+ years as a stills pro portrait photog here. Coming up on 7 in video. My oh my ... the complexity of video software and the gear it needs is way past that of stills.

 

In Premiere, the CPU/RAM subsystem is the heart of the computer and the process. Premiere uses that as the central hub, and calls on other subsystems as it needs them to do specific things. The GPU uses a very different math and coding set, so ... it's used on things on the GPU Accelerated Effects list.

 

Which is primarily major frame resizing (Warp stabilizer, 4k on 1080 sequence) and color/tonal effects that have the GPU-accelerated lego block in the Effects panel. Such things as Lumetri there.

 

When your CPU gets to such things, it calls on the GPU as needed for that moment of the sequence.

 

Now ... depending on the relationship of the gpu to the CPU on that system, the CPU may call on the GPU for other things. Such as on say laptops with onboard graphics chips, the laptop CPUs are designed without internal graphics capabilities so they depend on the onboard chip for things that a desktop CPU would do on its own. From comments I've seen elsewhere, some of the AMD CPUs seem to call on an AMD GPU in a similar fashion at times. Way outta my league.

 

Neil 

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