Best Hardware for After Effects

[svens82]

Hi,

I'm working more and more with After Effects, but recently I've been experiencing several issues:

- Audio is not in sync with the clip

-L ow performance, especially when working in 3D

- Long export times

What can I upgrade in my hardware to improve performance?

Current Hardware:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (12-Core, ~3.7 GHz)

RAM: 64 GB

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB VRAM)

Windows 11

Many thanks in advance. 

Sven

[nishu_kush]

Moving the thread to the Video Hardware forum.

Thanks,
Nishu

[John T Smith]

>GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Are you using the recommended STUDIO driver, or the 'usual default' Gaming driver?

[svens82]

I'm not 100% sure, but I guess Gaming/Creative

[John T Smith]

nVidia Driver Downloads https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us to find the Studio driver for your model card

[svens82]

I installe dthe lates version of the studio driver, but nothing changed...

[John T Smith]

Do you want me to move this discussion to the After Effects forum?

[svens82]

No, thanks.

I think the harware will be the problem.

[RjL190365]

The problem here is that old AMD AM4 platform that does not perform well in After Effects. It (in particular, the Ryzen 9 5950X) scored less than half as much as a newer CPU platform even with the most powerful GPU on the market due to its chipset I/O bottlenecking.

The only way to improve that performance is, I'm very afraid to tell you, would be to get an entirely new CPU platform with a newer-generation CPU, a new motherboard and new RAM.

[svens82]

That means a new PC 😄