FAQ: Everything you need to know about GPU use in Premiere Pro

In Premiere Pro, the GPU can be used to process multiple things like GPU accelerated effects, image processing, playback and lot more.

Certain Intel GPUs are also used to process h.264/HEVC codecs faster using the Hardware-accelerated Encoding/Decoding. This video explains that process:

• Often we have a lot of questions of about the GPU and GPU utilization like
  • What is processed by the GPU Accelerated renderer?
  • What are the system requirements for GPU Accelerated renderer to work?
  • How to enable Mercury Playback Engine (GPU Accelerated) renderer?
  • Why am I seeing activity on the integrated Intel® GPU and not the dedicated GPU?
  • Why is my GPU utilization low?
  • To get the answer to all these questions please refer to this article.
    • GPU Accelerated Rendering & Hardware Decoding/Encoding 

• If you have a supported GPU and your GPU is not working properly with Premiere Pro or if the GPU related features are not available. Consider doing a clean installation of the GPU drivers.
  • Here is how to do it.
    • NVIDIA (Windows) - https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/drivers-video-win-nvidia.html 
    • NVIDIA (macOS) - https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/drivers-video-macos-nvidia.html 
    • Intel (Windows) - https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/drivers-video-win-intel.html
    • AMD (Windows) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEtInDWjw70