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April 18, 2025
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PREMIERE & MEDIA ENCODER GPU ISSUE - 2025 version

  • April 18, 2025
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HI! Is there any way to enable the different GPU options without going through File > Project Settings > General? Because all my options are currently disabled.

Of course, my Imac is an old one with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4 GB graphics card.

 

Thanks!

    Correct answer Ann Bens

    Your card (2013) is too old for 2025.

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    RjL190365
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    April 18, 2025

    I agree with Ann. Your GTX 780M is obsolete for several years now. It is a mobile Kepler GPU that Nvidia had already completely discontinued driver support for five years ago, with the very last driver being version 425.31 in mid-2019. All recent versions of Premiere Pro now require a driver version higher than 560.xx just to even be supported at all.

     

    In addition, Apple no longer supports CUDA at all beginning with OSX 10.14 (Mojave). And Apple has completely removed OpenCL support in the last couple or so major macOS versions. So, whichever setting that is listed inside the grayed-out selection box will be your default rendering setting (usually Metal, but sometimes software only depending on the GPU) because Adobe has depreciated software-only rendering beginning with version 25.2 of both Premiere Pro and Media Encoder.

     

    In other words, you are at the mercy of Apple. Adobe merely had to comply with the demands of the hardware manufacturers.

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      oToLandAuthor
      Participant
      April 22, 2025

      Did you know if is working with xeon w3 Ghz on imac pro (late 2017)?

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      RjL190365
      Legend
      April 22, 2025

      Only Metal will be available as of the last two major versions of premiere Pro, in your case. And as of version 25.2, you can no longer select software-only rendering within Premiere Pro or Media Encoder. Software-only rendering is available in Premiere Pro only in troubleshooting mode. OpenCL is no longer available at all on Macs running the newest-supported version of macOS; therefore, your rendering mode is permanently locked to the Metal GPU acceleration mode.

      Ann Bens
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      Ann BensCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      April 18, 2025

      Your card (2013) is too old for 2025.

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