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MahaB82A
January 11, 2022
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Old Graphic Card & Latest Premiere Pro

  • January 11, 2022
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I have a latest Premiere Pro. I like to install a recommended Graphic Card (GC) for that. As I have a new Dell computer I spoke with Dell. They say GC for my computer is out of stock, instead Dell made an offer which is year 2017 refurbished one Nvidia GT 1030.

 

Some of you might be using old GC for latest version of Premiere Pro. I like know your experience.  

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MahaB82A
MahaB82AAuthor
January 12, 2022

Do you have any idea how to get a compatible  GC in the market?  

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 11, 2022

In short: you wont have MPE hardware. Premiere will default to Software only.

MahaB82A
MahaB82AAuthor
January 11, 2022
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In short: you wont have MPE hardware. Premiere will default to Software only.


By @Ann Bens

I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAY THIS LINK GIVES SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR PREMIERE PRO

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html

 

Legend
January 12, 2022

This is a updated list. Some card will be in and some will be out. If there is a access to 2017 list, the card might be there.


Guess what? The GT 1030 has never been on the list of either "recommended" or "supported" GPUs because it is missing one or more processing features that help enhance performance and quality. Specifically, the GT 1030 is based on the GP108 chip that does not have a hardware H.264 or HEVC decoder or encoder at all, forcing all decoding and encoding on your CPU.

 

Worse, the GT 1030 is not compatible with any of the Studio Drivers at all. Only the Game Ready Drivers are compatible. The Studio Drivers for GeForces require a minimum 128-bit VRAM bandwidth - but the GT 1030 has only a 64-bit VRAM bandwidth. The Studio Drivers also require hardware NVDEC and NVENC support both present and enabled - something that the GT 1030 and all other GP108 chip-based GPUs do not have at all  (these hardware decoders and encoders are completely missing from the GP108 chip).

 

AFAIK the Premiere Pro 2017 recommended GPU list (now no longer available at all on Adobe's Web site) has not been updated at all since the very first version of Premiere Pro CC (2014): Its recommended GPU list for GeForces did not go past the GTX 780. The GT 1030 is newer, about the same age as the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB that is on the Adobe recommended (or supported) GPU list. The GT 1030 is based on a new low-end Pascal chip with less features and less performance, and is not a rehash of a Kepler- or Fermi-generation low-end GPU.