Buying a laptop for Premiere Pro and After Effects

[Alexandre3]

Hi folks,

I am in the time consuming process of shopping for a laptop that can handle video editing and basic to medium After Effects tasks . I need something reliable but not extremly expensive.

I've been eying:

1. A laptop that comes with a AMD Ryzen 7 3750H processor and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPU.

2. A laptop that comes with an Intel Core I7-9750H and NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650 4GB GPU.

Now, I've been researching a lot and sometimes all seems clear while at other times I just don't know what to choose.
Any advice is welcome. I am open to other options in regards to CPUs and GPUs as long as they are not the most expensive.

What should I prioritize for my usage? CPU or GPU?

Thanks,

Alex

[Alexandre3]

Hi folks,

I am in the time consuming process of shopping for a laptop that can handle video editing and basic to medium After Effects tasks . I need something reliable but not extremly expensive.

I've been eying:

1. A laptop that comes with a AMD Ryzen 7 3750H processor and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 GPU.

2. A laptop that comes with an Intel Core I7-9750H and NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650 4GB GPU.

Now, I've been researching a lot and sometimes all seems clear while at other times I just don't know what to choose.
Any advice is welcome. I am open to other options in regards to CPUs and GPUs as long as they are not the most expensive.

What should I prioritize for my usage? CPU or GPU?

Thanks,

Alex

[Guest]

If you can edge out a laptop with an Intel processor and the RTX 2060, I think you'll be very happy. The Asus ROG Strix Scar III is a very powerful, easily upgradable, and reasonably priced option. 

After Effects can only render a single frame at a time, unless you buy third party plugins, because Adobe decided to remove Multi Frame Rendering for no good reason. This means you want a processor with a high clock speed, rather than a whole bunch of cores. 

With Intel processors, you can also export with hardware acceleration in Premiere. 

[Alexandre3]

Thank you for your input. There are options of laptop that have Intel CPU and RTX 2060 GPU.

In your opinion, what would be the minimum amount of clock speed?

[Dave_LaRonde]

A word of advice:  figure out what how you intend to use it now and in the near future.  

For example, multiple streams of 8K video demand one kind of machine, simple HD demands a different one.  And After Effects always likes as much memory as you can put in it.

[Alexandre3]

That's a good point. I don't think I'll be editing 8K in the near future. 4k propably so, though I have the intention of creating proxies. Is 16gb of RAM enough, or should I go to at least 24gb?