Will Premiere pro work well in Core i3-8th gen?

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October 31, 2019
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I am planning to buy a laptop with:

Intel core i3-8th gen ( i3-8130u)

8gn of ddr4 ram

Integrated Intel HD Graphics 620

CPU with 2.2 GHz to 4 GHz

I will be editing 1080p videos on it. Will this laptop handle the editing , color grading and other works of premiere pro efficiently ?

Somebody help me to know please.

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Correct answer RjL190365

With that laptop your editing experience will be rather frustratingly sluggish: All mobile i3 CPUs are still only dual-core, which I had already demonstrated a couple of years ago to be woefully inadequate for even 1080p/23.976, let alone 4k, video editing.

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aarav_4513

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It will work fine even i use i3 11th gen cpu with the similar specs just i recommend using of nvme ssd so that it would be fast.I even have edited 4k videos on it. I actually started liearning it now and i am making full flegid 4k videos

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Jose Paulo

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to anyone who sees this in 2023 Eveyone else is wrong, 100% you can do it, it's not gonna be as smooth as using an i5 or i7 but it can get the job done, highly recommend doing 720P over 1080 if you can tho

Conrad_C

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You replied to a 4-year-old thread, so although someone might have gotten away with an 8th gen Core i3 in 2019, it’s not a good idea today. four years later.

Everyone else isn’t wrong, the original question asked “will this laptop handle the editing , color grading and other works of premiere pro efficiently?”

You are right that it will “handle it” but everyone else is more right that it will not handle it “efficiently” which was part of the original question. For example, the ease of color grading and other key features are now highly dependent on the GPU, and 8th gen integrated graphics won’t cut it (there will be lag and low frame rates). Especially integrated graphics on only 8GB RAM! And just two CPU cores!

I know this because my previous laptop is an 8th gen Intel quad core with integrated graphics, and a Core i5, so a step up from what was asked about, and the experience in Premiere Pro was definitely marginal. It got a bit better when I attached an external GPU to it, but nothing improved the experience as much as just getting a current laptop with lots of memory, lots of cores, and decent graphics hardware.

The nail in the coffin was when you said you highly recommend 720P. That might have been workable in 2019, but today even affordable phones, action cameras, and drones capture video at 4K, and there is a wide expectation now for 2K and higher delivery. Using an old laptop is technically possible, but only really practical for people with basic, non-commercial needs and a lot of time and patience.

Some of the burden can be relieved by using proxies…but then you have to generate proxies and wait until that’s done, and proxy generation is very slow on a dual core 8th generation Core i3 with integrated graphics.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Moved to the Hardware Forum.

And I have to agree: Don't even try to use that for Premiere Pro. It won't even run Premiere Elements well.

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SAFEHARBOR11

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It will work about as well as entering a Yugo in the Daytona 500

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RjL190365Correct answer

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With that laptop your editing experience will be rather frustratingly sluggish: All mobile i3 CPUs are still only dual-core, which I had already demonstrated a couple of years ago to be woefully inadequate for even 1080p/23.976, let alone 4k, video editing.