Best Hardware for After Effects

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May 6, 2025
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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

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RjL190365

Legend

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.