Can Adobe Premier Pro 2020 run on AMD Ryzen 5 - AMD Radeon Vega 8 (integrated graphic card)?

[Jonathan5FC8]

Hello,

I've had a look at your system requirement page for Adobe Premier Pro 2020 at https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html and it show all the graphic card that support Adobe Premier Pro. However since I've to buy a company laptop for my company, they have ask me if this laptop Lenovo ThinkPad T14s AMD Ryzen 5 with integrated graphic card:"AMD Radeon Vega 8" will be supported by Adobe Premier Pro? OR they will need to go with a laptop with a high end GPU graphic card on this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html ?

I would like to know so that I don't waste the company money on buying a laptop that can't even run the Adobe Premier Pro software for video encoding at 1080HD and 4K.

Your system requirement page doesn't show this new mobile graphic card type so I need your answer to my question?

Please advise?

[RjL190365]

It will be excruciatingly sluggish. For 4k, expect that PC to take hours, if not days, to render even a few seconds of video.

And how much RAM that system will be equipped with? If it comes with only 8 GB of RAM, that system will choke very badly to the point of almost becoming completely unusable for any type of video editing. You see, no integrated craphics card has its own discrete graphics memory that's totally separate from the main system RAM. Instead, the integrated graphics steals gigabytes of system RAM for itself. And if there isn't a sufficient amount of system RAM left after the integrated graphics steals the amount needed for a given video processing (rendering and/or encoding) job, the entire PC will crash well before the export job is finished, requiring a hard reboot of the system.

Which is exactly why I warned other potential buyers that no system with only integrated graphics is suitable at all for video editing.

Put them all together, and you would just be wasting your company's money on something that you effectively can't use for the job that you're trying to do.

[John T Smith]

Not recent, but some ideas in this

Laptop https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-hardware/best-laptop-for-running-premiere-pro/td-p/9525675
-and cooling https://www.amazon.com/AICHESON-Cooling-Notebook-MacBook-Computer/dp/B07CGMHP24/

[RjL190365]

And I forgot to mention that the IT department's planned ThinkPad 14s Ryzen 5 laptop cannot be ordered with more than 16 GB total of RAM, and that the amount of RAM ordered with that system is permanently locked, and cannot be upgraded at all. The IT department would have to order that laptop with the Ryzen 7 instead of the Ryzen 5 just to be eligible to order it with 32 GB of RAM.

So, knowing IT, its machines will likely be ordered with just the base, bare minimum amount of RAM, which is the reason for my first reply. It will choke very, very badly in the middle of a video rendering or exporting job, and if the system crashes and reboots before the rendering or exporting is complete, then you will have to start the whole render over again as the partial export will then become unusable.

[Jonathan5FC8]

Thanks you all, your feedback is really helpful and it is the answer that I was looking for.

RjL190365 - you are correct the bare minium requirement of the laptop will be coming with 8GB memory so I can understand that the device will choke. You mention that I need at least a AMD Ryzen 7 with a i7 CPU and 32GB RAM memory for Adobe Premier to run successfully. So if I suggest to my company to buy the Lenovo ThinkPad T15 that will come with i7 CPU, 16GB RAM memory and with a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce MX330 2GB GDDR5, this should be able to run the Adobe Premier Pro and do some decent video encoding on 1080HD or 4K? I don't think the company is willing to go for 32GB memory, 16GB is their limit. If video encoding on 1080HD is enought on 16GB alongside the GPU power of the Nvidia 2GB GDDR5 memory should be able to work?

Please advise if this setup is OK or Not? 

[RjL190365]

You misunderstood me when I stated something about the Ryzen 7 and 32 GB of RAM. I merely mentioned that that's what's available in that particular model (as custom-configured).

On the other hand, that T15 with the MX330 cannot perform hardware H.264 or HEVC encoding at all (that means, all encoding will be entirely on the CPU) because the MX330 does not have a hardware encoder at all (owing to the Pascal-generation GP108 chip that it uses). In fact, none of Nvidia's MX GPUs have hardware encoding capability whatsoever (the NVENC encoder is either disabled or missing at manufacturing level).

[Jonathan5FC8]

Hi RjL190365,

Thank you very much for your insight into my problem,

I greatly appreciate your assistance and helpful information.

Your explanation make perfect sense now as to why the MX330 model was not listed on Adobe Premier system requiremnt page as it is not a supported device to be use with the Adobe Premier. 

You have provided me with the satistification answer that I was looking for.

This case can now be closed..