Is that a 3060Ti ... ? If so, that's got a lot more vRAM than a straight 3060.
The specs that Adobe lists for Premiere are the minimalist specs required for the app to run. Depending on your media and workflow/effects, it may take a lot more hardware to work smoothly.
Among other things, ALL metadata about the media and effects used in a project file is loaded to RAM/cache files ... and on a rig with small amounts of RAM, that means it will have to constantly shuttle data from disc cache to RAM while processing things.
The larger the project, the more assets involved, the more and heavier the effects, the worse the load will be.
For those with a rig on the lower end, you need to do a lot more things like work with proxy or transcodes during editing. Perhaps applying effects then doing a full render & replace to new video clip for heavy workloads.
Intraframe codecs like ProRes, DNx, and Cineform take a lot more space on disk. But every frame is a complete frame by itself, so the rig only needs to process one frame at a time. MUCH easier than long-GOP formats.
Interframe long-GOP formats like most mp4 files only have complete " i-frames" every 9-30 'frames' or more. In-between they have matrix data sets of 1) pixels that have changed since the last i-frame 2) pixels that will change before the next i-frame or 3) BOTH.
This requires the computer to decode up to 30 or more frames just to play ONE frame of video. It's vastly more hardware intensive, especially if your CPU doesn't have the Intel QuickSync hardware that does the specialized processing. And sadly AMD CPUs don't have the bits that Intel CPUs sometimes do.
I'm running a 3960x with 128GB of RAM, a 2080Ti and a pair of Nvme drives, one for OS/programs, the other for all cache files. Then 8 additional large fast SSD drives.
I do ok with H.264/mp4 media, but does great with ProRes, DNx, and Cineform. BRAW, ArriRaw, such things do well also.
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