I second Warren. You see, Intel Skylake CPUs and their derivatives have not aged well at all when it comes to performance in Premiere Pro. Add to that that Intel had already placed the iGPU in all 10th-Gen and earlier CPUs into "legacy" support status, which means that compatibility problems wouldn't be fixed at all while essentially only critical security updates would continue.   As a reminder just how far even the i7-8700B has fallen, its performance with only its integrated graphics failed to even match, let alone surpass, an original Apple Silicon M1 chip which came out in 2020 while consuming far more electrical power than any Apple Silicon CPU. ... View more

Like Averdahl stated. Some Windows laptops actually use mobile-device-class components (and not true x86-64 components) to begin with. The trouble is that many lower-end Windows laptops are powered by CPUs such as a Qualcomm Snapdragon or an Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium (all replaced in name by just the "Intel Processor" designation), which either do not meet minimum hardware requirements or are flagged as "mobile device CPUs".   And that's not to mention that ARM versions of Windows are currently not supported at all by Adobe desktop programs. Only the x86-64 version of Windows is supported. And if your laptop has a low-end CPU, it may not support AVX2 instructions which are now required to even download or install 2024 or newer versions of the Adobe video programs at all. ... View more

What are the specs of your Mac? And what year is that model from (as released by Apple, not when you purchased it)?   And assuming that your Mac is new enough, is there any way that you can update its macOS version to 12.x.x or later?   That is all because you can no longer obtain any version of Premiere Pro that's compatible with 10.15.x any more since all such versions were made permanently unavailable in October of last year. ... View more

That laptop is too underpowered overall for 4k. Overall performance of that laptop, aside from GPU effects, cannot match even that of an original base-spec M1 MacBook Air, let alone higher-end laptops or desktops.   And that is partly because CPUs based on Skylake and its derivatives such as Coffee Lake and Comet Lake (such as your i7-9750H) have not aged gracefully when it comes to performance in Premiere Pro. ... View more

Neither. Both CPUs are too old, and are no longer supported by Intel itself. Plus, the W-2135 has only 6 cores and 12 threads with much lower IPC than newer CPUs.   Moreover, the RX 480 is now depreciated to the reduced driver support mode, which signals the impending end of support lifetime for it and all other pre-RDNA GPUs.   In other words, you'd be much better off with an entirely new PC system that's equipped with a 14th-Gen Intel i5 CPU than either of those two workstation relics. ... View more

You will need an entirely new CPU platform (CPU, motherboard and RAM) in order to continue updating Premiere Pro. You see, your system's current motherboard cannot accept anything newer than your current E5-26xx v2 CPU. (Or put it this way, none of the CPUs that are compatible with your motherboard support AVX2 instructions at all.)   P.S.: New RAM is required for any newer CPU platform because the DDR3 RAM that's currently in your PC is completely incompatible with current CPU platforms. (As in that DDR3 RAM will not even physically fit into, let alone work electrically with, the DIMM slots of any current-gen motherboard.) ... View more

I am sorry to tell you this, but AMD itself has depreciated all remaining pre-RDNA GPUs to a reduced driver support model. Driver updates for GPUs such as yours will no longer be updated on a monthly basis - but instead, only when critical fixes are needed. In other words, this support status is AMD's equivalent of Apple's "vintage" support status.   GPUs older than the RX 400 series, including all of the R5, R7 and R9 parts, are now obsolete. ... View more

Well, that choce may be fine for gaming. But video editing utilizes the GPU in a completely different way than games do. Hence my response: AMD simply refuses to support any newer version of OpenCL than it already does, and Adobe has no known current plans to support what replaces AMD's implementation of OpenCL while it may soon require a newer version of OpenCL just to even enable its GPU acceleration at all.   More specifically, AMD still supports only OpenCL 2.0 on its gaming GPUs while everybody else (Nvidia and Intel) already supports OpenCL 3.0. ... View more

Here is the problem:   On your computer system, your CPU has only eight performance cores but 16 efficiency cores. And the way Windows scheduler works, all background tasks will automatically get shifted to the much lesser performing efficiency cores (in other words, Premiere or Media Encoder must be kept fully open for best performance with your system). Older CPUs, as well as all ultra-expensive workstation/server CPUs and all current AMD CPUs, have only performance cores – no efficiency cores; thus, background tasks will remain at full performance with those CPU   And the Windows 11 scheduler cannot be set to circumvent this behavior AFAIK. And if it weren't for its very high idle power draw I would have kept the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X that was previously in my main PC instead of upgrading to its current Intel i7-12700K.   So, if you intend to keep rendering in the background, then you simply have the wrong CPU for the job. ... View more

Between the two, go for the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. You see, AMD has depreciated OpenCL (which is now stuck on OpenCL 2.0, which is now 12 years old, for its gaming GPUs) in favor of the new ROCm API. And since there are currently no known plans for Adobe to support ROCm for GPU acceleration, the next major version release of Premiere Pro may require OpenCL 3.0 or higher support, thereby locking the Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) to the software-only rendering mode when an AMD GPU is installed. ... View more

Yep. The Radeon RX Vega M graphics is a separate chip that's embedded into the Intel Kaby Lake G CPU package. And Intel had completely discontinued all support for Kaby Lake G, outside of archived drivers, at the end of March of last year. Worst of all, generic AMD graphics drivers are completely incompatible with these on-package GPUs. A driver must be downloaded from Intel's Web site for that series of GPUs. ... View more

Hardware limitations dictated by the GPU manufacturers themselves, as I mentioned many times. Nvidia, AMD and Intel just don't care about h.264 any more as they all treat it as a "legacy" codec at this point. ... View more

There is some, but not a lot. And some of the footage that you're working with forces everything onto the CPU no matter which software you're using to edit.   The biggest difference you'll se is in 10-bit 4:2:2 HEVC footage (which you apparently are not using at the moment), where only the iGPU (in your case) currently supports for hardware decoding. Nvidia currently supports only 4:2:0 or 4:4:4 for HEVC decoding and encoding but not 4:2:2; however, Adobe currently does not permit H.264 or HEVC exports in anything other than 4:2:0 even with software-only encoding. ... View more

You will want to replace your PC's CPU, motherboard and RAM with something newer before you install any newer versions of the Adobe Creative Cloud programs. You see, Microsoft support for Windows 10 will end completely in October of next year unless you pay Microsoft a high fee for continued security-only support for an additional three years. In accordance with Microsoft's support policy, the next major version of the Adobe programs (which will be released this coming Fall) will become the very last version of the Adobe programs to be compatible with Windows 10 at all. Windows 11 will soon be required in order to continue using Adobe software.   And that's not to mention that Intel had completely ended all support and servicing for the first version of Socket LGA 1151 (the 100- and 200-series chipsets) last month. ... View more

It's not Adobe that made that decision. It's all of the GPU makers which dictated that. They are restricted to 8-bit SDR 4:2:0 for hardware encoding support for H.264. Adobe merely went by whatever Nvidia, AMD and Intel told it to do.   You must use HEVC (H.265) in order to have hardware encoding for 10-bit or HDR exports. ... View more

It may be because AMD has depreciated support for the OpenCL API in newer driver versions in the transition towards a different open-source GPGPU API which none of the NLE video editing programs currently support at all. As a result of this depreciation, some upcoming versions of Premiere Pro may no longer support AMD GPUs at all, which may result in the MPE renderer becoming permanently locked to the software-only mode whenever an AMD GPU is installed. ... View more

In addition to what Peru Bob stated, it could be that the OpenCL API itself just isn't as performant as CUDA (which unfortunately is restricted to Nvidia GPUs), such that some of the rendering features that were hardware-accelerated with CUDA instead gets sent straight to the CPU (in software-only mode) with OpenCL.   In other words, the RX 6700 XT might have been more performant than a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in raw compute performance but the OpenCL API itself was holding it back. ... View more

In this case, get the 4070 (which, BTW, has 12GB of VRAM, not 8GB). 8GB of VRAM may not be enough for 8k video editing, especially with more than a single layer of video and any number of GPU effects applied. Also, the 4060 is IMHO not powerful enough for 4k, especially with any number of GPU effects. ... View more

This is very similar to what Microsoft is currently doing to its Windows operating system itself. When Windows 11 first came out, it officially could not be installed on a system without TPM 2.0 support. Although there is a modification that permitted installation of that OS on some older PCs, the next major servicing update will completely block most PCs released prior to 2009 from ever having Windows 11 installed because they lack certain CPU hardware features that the OS installation and operation now requires.   As for your Mac Pro, it is just about obsolete: Intel had completely discontinued all support and servicing for the 2013 Mac Pros' CPUs in 2020, while the AMD FirePro GPU support has virtually ended in June 2021. Plus, the 2013 Mac Pros will become depreciated to "vintage" support status this coming December. And already, you officially cannot update its macOS beyond Monterey, which technically is the absolute oldest version of macOS that Premiere Pro 2024 supports (subject to minimum hardware requirements, of course). ... View more

Your graphics card might be failing, especially its onboard VRAM. That GTX 970 is, like, nine years old already, and is on the cusp of becoming depreciated to "legacy" support status by Nvidia itself. This depreciation may come in a matter of weeks, if not days.   And hardware makers are under no obligation at all whatsoever to fix a card beyond its base warranty period.   Your best solution is a new graphics card. However, if you're planning to continue to use that 10-year-old CPU for a while longer, then don't waste your money on anything higher than a 60-performance-level GPU such as an RTX 4060 since that 10-year-old quad-core CPU will then become a severe bottleneck to anything higher. ... View more

In addition to what Warren stated, there is a 13-inch M3 MacBook Air.   Neither of the MacBook Airs have any system cooling at all whatsoever, so the CPU in both Airs will throttle down significantly in the middle of a rendering job, such that the performance might fall below that of your current M1 MacBook Pro.   Unfortunately, the only sigificant hardware upgrade at this current time would actually be larger and heavier than your current MacBook. The direct replacement for that MacBook Air with Touch Bar is actually the base M3 (non-Pro) version of the 14" MacBook Pro, with fewer USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 ports than the M3 Pro version of that same MacBook Pro. ... View more

Your installed version of Windows 10 is not a general release build. It is an insider (aka beta) build, which is not officially supported at all by Microsoft. Only general release builds are supported by all video editing programs. ... View more

Both the GPU and the CPU are quite good. I would like a higher-res monitor than 1920x1200, especially if you're going to work with 2k or higher-res video.   On the other hand, if all of your video work is no higher than "FHD" (1080p), then that laptop would more than suffice. ... View more

Thank you for the specs. At that price you're stuck between a rock and a hard place (as Warren Heaton mentioned). Despite the presence of a recent-generation (albeit low-end) discrete GPU, that Firefly is hardly any faster than a just-recently-discontinued base-spec M1 MacBook Air to justify its price point that's nearly double what the old M1 Air had sold for (that is, it just barely outperformed that MacBook Air judging by the single result for that configuration in the Puget Systems PugetBench for Premiere Pro results list).   And even the now-cheapest M2 MacBook Air that took over the old M1 Air's price point (since the M3 MacBook Airs have arrived) would outperform that HP Firefly laptop in Premiere Pro (except for GPU effects rendering).   It's all because prices for most individual hardware components have crept upwards in recent years, causing a regression in the relative performance-to-price ratio on new PCs. ... View more

What is your exact model of MBP? The 15" or 16"? Both of those were 2019 models with discrete Radeon GPUs of different GPU generations.   And what is the exact GPU inside your MBP (not counting the Intel UHD Graphics or your eGPU)?   And by the way, Adobe does not support more than two different GPUs simultaneously in any event. And as I stated, Apple does not allow the user to disable any of the MBP's internal GPUs at all, making any eGPU useless for Premiere Pro in this case. ... View more

Scratch what I said in my previous post. Premiere Pro has trouble with three completely different GPU devices in any system (PC or Mac). It is likely that your MBP has its own discrete GPU in addition to the integrated Intel graphics, both of which are enabled. And in the case of your MacBook Pro, the discrete AMD Radeon graphics chip is of a completely different GPU architecture than your external GPU (in this case, the internal GPU is of either the GCN5 or the RDNA1 architecture while the eGPU is of the RDNA2 architecture - all three of which are completely incompatible with one another hardware-wise). In this instance, the eGPU will not be recognized at all in Premiere Pro. There is absolutely no fix at all whatsoever. Apple does not give you a choice; there is absolutely no way at all to disable either of the internal GPUs. ... View more