Premiere Pro 2020 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620

Report · Jan 13, 2020

Can anyone tell me why since upgrading to PPro 2020 I get a warning message that my graphics card driver is unsupported? It's a NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 (2Gb) and has the most up to date drivers. All previous versions of PPro I've had (last 5-6 years) haven't had a problem. It allows me to 'Continue with known issues...' and PPro is seemingly unaffected. Am I missing something? Am I taking a performance hit, or a functionality hit? Should I care?

Report · Jan 13, 2020

Yes, you should care. Below is a link for PP System Requirements. I did a quick search for 620 and it said it was a 1 GB card, maybe yours was different but the 2gb is the PP minimum, with 4gb+ recommended. If you are happy with the way it works, then great, keep going as long as it allows you. But the rest of your rig is probably from the 5 or 6 years ago or more range, so you might start thinking of your next computer.

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

Report · Jan 13, 2020

I am very sorry to say this, but your GT 620 is now officially obsolete. In fact, it was NEVER a Kepler GPU at all whatsoever; instead, it is a rebadged Fermi-generation GPU (in this case, a GeForce GT 530) whose driver support had been completely EOL'd by NVIDIA itself at the beginning of last year. The very last officially-released driver that supported Fermi was version 391.35, which was released at the end of March 2018. But Premiere Pro 14.x (2020) requires driver version 43x.xx or higher (which is completely incompatible with your GPU or any other Fermi GPU) just to be even supported at all by Adobe.

As a result of that, you will have to somehow permanently lock Premiere Pro's renderer to the MPE software-only mode - and then, be prepared for even everyday apps (that means apps which do not use the GPU at all) to run noticeably slower with that GPU than with a higher-end GPU due to the severe mismatch in the memory throughput between the GPU and the system RAM (specifically, the GPU VRAM throughput is significantly lower than that of your system's main RAM).

Report · Feb 18, 2020

Thanks both. A new GPU (at least) is on the horizon then. In the meantime I don't appear to be noticeably suffering (I'm a hobbiest user and the few games I play certainly don't tax the GPU) so whilst it lets me I'll keep going with it.