Graphics Card Requirements

[Fletchi]

I'm looking to buy a new laptop for use with creative cloud apps, in particular premiere pro, after effects, photoshop etc. Is the Intel Iris XE integrated graphics good enough for this? I didn't see it listed in the list of compatible graphics cards for premiere pro. The laptop I'm looking at has the following spec..

• Intel Core i7 1165G7 2.8GHz
• 16GB RAM + 1TB SSD
• 15.6" FHD Display 1920 x 1080
• Intel Iris Xe Graphics

[defaulth2572f39ayi8]

Hi! I would not recommend the Intel Iris Xe. I bought one notebook with it and all that has given me is a headache. Glitch video in the preview (and I think that it's in export video too, but very very very mild) that I cannot fix. 

[defaulth2572f39ayi8]

Thinking it better I don't think the "very" 3x is right. I should have put only two or maybe even one. Anyway, I'd not but it with Iris Xe. 

Other people had the same problem: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/are-intel-iris-xe-graphics-compatible-with-p...

[Peru Bob]

Moved to the Video Hardware forum.

[John T Smith]

This has some laptop discussion, and includes 2 recommendation links from Puget Systems... copied from Peru Bob
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-hardware/premiere-pro-hardware-articles-to-read-before-you-buy-...

[RjL190365]

Expanding on defaulth2572f39ayi8's response, I would not recommend the older Intel UHD or Iris Plus Graphics, for that matter. Nor would I currently recommend any of the AMD Radeon graphics (integrated or discrete) for Premiere Pro. You see, Adobe's implementation of OpenCL GPU acceleration remains bug-ridden, even in today's version 22.0.

This leaves only discrete Nvidia GeForce or Quadro graphics - and not just any one. Low-end versions of these GPUs neuter many of the features that higher-end models do, at every single GPU generation.

And as I stated in the past, the integrated Intel graphics (whether the old Kaby Lake-based or the newer Iris Xe) is only good for hardware decoding or encoding assist. Otherwise, they are much too weak for hardware GPU rendering.

[Andy 1968]

I know the Intel 630 IGPU on the i9 9900K is not that great but I heard the Iris IGPU is much better. Maybe you can find some YouTube videos about the new Iris IGPU.