New Mac Pro with AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

[PowerMike G5]

With the new Mac Pro imminent, does anyone know how the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo will be treated as in Premiere on MacOS?  As in, will it be seen as a single GPU or a dual GPU?

For example, I know Premiere only uses one GPU for accelerated playback in a setup with multiple GPUs, but what about in this instance, given the 2 GPU dies are on a single board?  Any insights would be helpful as I decide which one to purchase shortly.

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[Amoniak_Amoniak]

Hi PowerMike and everyone.

Did you receive your new MacPro 2020?  I am, too, about to buy this machine.  But, I really want to configure the machine for After Effects.  I have a few questions.  Is someone could answer?

-Is adobe AE and Premiere use the heart processors mostly for rendering, before the video card?  If yes (it is what I think), it would be better to buy a big processor before a dual video card?

-Should I install the MacOS Mojave in it instead of leaving Catalina (it would be delivered with Catalina certainely).

The set up I would order is :

-Processor 16 cores (my budget is limited)

-AMD Radeon Pro Vega II (not Duo), I will plug an OLED 4K monitor, Plus an Imac 27 inches in Target mode as a working screen.

-32 Gb of memory (but I would buy 8 x 8GB more) for a total of 96 GB.

-Because I am working with Adobe, I would not buy the Afterburner card.

Is something looks akward in this set up?

Thanks a lot.

[jub80]

We get a new Mac Pro (2019, Macos 10.15.2) with a Radeon Pro Vega II (32 GB) and Premiere 2020 is NOT working:

"Adobe Premiere Pro could not find any capable video play modules. Please update your video display drivers and start again"

I installed the last Premiere Version, the app starts, without an error, but there is no video output from the Blackmagiccard.

[cjpmsp]

Exact same issue here. 😞

[nyfeman]

Oh my god YES!!! ME TOO! Farking several $K machine and AE and PP DO NOT WORK AT ALL!

[EnricoTirotta]

It's a terrible situation. We have a mac pro 28 core with 2x vega ii duo, we are waiting Metal api support from adobe, autodesk, side fx and maxon. After 8 months, no one release out something good 😔

[DiacriticalOne]

I have a weird combination of problems. Premiere Pro (2020) is usig the GPU for rendering H.265 4k video, but if I pass it on to Media Encoder so I can do other work, that product will only use software encoding (no metal). Two big issues with that: first, I can't do anything else when Premiere Pro is doing the export of media and second, Media Encoder takes almost 10x as long to encode video becuase it cannot access the GPU and throws everything to the CPU. This is on a Mac Pro w/Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, 16-core and 214GB memory. It worked when I first got it, but it's a problem now.