Intel + Nvidia or AMD?

[antoniods97]

Hi everyone, sorry for my English, for an occasional use of Premiere or Photoshop, is it convenient (portable) configuration Intel Core i5-1035G1 + Nvidia MX 350 2GB or AMD Ryzen 7 4800U with integrated GPU?

[Sumeet Kumar Choubey]

Hi antoniods97,

We would need more info to be able to understand if these systems can perform properly while running Premiere Pro. Please let us know the amount of RAM and the storage system that you will be using. Aso, let us know the type of media files (format/codec, frame rate and frame size) you will be working with.

Thanks,

Sumeet

[antoniods97]

16GB DDR4 3200MHz
SSD 512GB M.2 2280, PCIe-NVMe, TLC

The type of media files (I think): MP4 H264 max60fps

What would be the most i could get? Both from intel + nvidia and amd?

[Peru Bob]

Also, what type of media (file type and codec) will you be editing in Premiere Pro?

[antoniods97]

I think MP4 H264 (1080p) if possible

[Peru Bob]

I've moved this to the Video Hardware forum.

[antoniods97]

Okok, I'm sorry

[Peru Bob]

No need to be sorry.  I edited my reply above.

[RjL190365]

If those laptops only come with 8 GB of RAM, then there is not much that you can do with either one: In those configurations, both would be completely unsuitable for any kind of video editing whatsoever.

If on the other hand they come with 16 GB, then the Intel system would perform a bit better due to its discrete GeForce GPU. (The 10th-Generation ultra-low-power 4-core/8-thread Ice Lake Intel i5 CPU is about as powerful, performance-wise, as a 6th-Generation regular-power Intel i7 Skylake mobile CPU.) However, the GeForce MX350 is like a GeForce GTX 1050 with half the memory bandwidth (and thus half the memory throughput), and may also have NVENC encoding disabled at manufacturing level. That defeats the purpose of the new NVENC/VCE hardware encoding feature that's forthcoming in a future version of Premiere Pro. AMD's APUs without a discrete GPU added almost always choke completely in video editing, especially with 4k content (they will play back such content in a simple video player, but editing software is a totally different story).

[antoniods97]

16GB of RAM, I don't care about 4k videos, I limit myself to 1080p if possible.

[RjL190365]

Then yes, go with the Intel configuration that you listed above. While AMD's CPU may look better on paper, the integrated graphics for some reason either gets allocated an insufficient amount of system RAM to do its job properly or steals so much system RAM that would have left the rest of the system with an insufficient amount of RAM to work properly.

And while you're at it, those laptops should come with a 250 GB m.2 PCI-E SSD (rather than a slow HDD) as standard equipment. You should supplement that laptop purchase with a USB 3.2 Generation 2 external SSD so that you can make more efficient use of the video editing software. A single SSD that's used for everything will not run such software efficiently.

[antoniods97]

Would have a 512GB M.2 2280 SSD, PCIe-NVMe, TLC.

Thanks a lot for the advice.