Premiere is built around the CPU, with the rest of the hardware as basically assistants for it. Each of these apps is conceived of differently. Which is why, say, talking with Puget Systems about a new rig gets such different build suggestions based on how you're going to use the apps.
For instance, Resolve can utilize multiple GPUs, so a build primarily for R will have either a truly massive single GPU or quite likely two strong GPUs side by side.
But a build designed for Premiere will feature the CPU with the GPU being a major/important assistant, but secondary to the CPU.
The whole encoding/decoding thing is a hassle too. Some CPUs are built with better internals for either H.264 or some of the log/raw media, some are built with the assumption such work is going to a graphics card or chip. So on one machine, hardware encoding rocks, on another, maybe even a more spendy CPU, software encoding actually works better.
It all, gives most of us headaches, right?
So ... that's a seven year old CPU with only six cores. Unfortunately in PrPro, you can't resuscitate an older CPU with simply adding a hot GPU. I had a six core rig up until a few months back ... then went to a 24 core Ryzen, 128GB of RAM, and a 2080Ti. And my rig was only a bit over three years old. Don't know how many times I've done that migration dance. Hate it every time.
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