Adobe Premiere Pro acceleration generally gets love from Nvidia’s CUDA and Intel’s QuickSync, but AMD has joined the party, too.
The company blogged on Tuesday morning highlighting that the recent Adobe 14.2 update added AMD GPU support to its Media Encoder. Support means Ryzen 4000 laptops (and probably the recently announced Ryzen 4000 G desktop chips) will be Premiere Pro ready.
Alexander Blade Davies’ blog post said the latest Premiere update uses AMD’s Advanced Media Framework to enable hardware acceleration of H.264 and HEVC encoding.
Davies tested a Ryzen 7 4800U on a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7, encoding a four-minute Apple ProRes 4444 4K 60P QuickTime video rendered using the YouTube preset on the laptop. Using the CPU to encode the video, Davies said the export took 17:22. With GPU encryption enabled, the time was reduced to 12:20.
The blog post also details the performance of the Ryzen 7 4800U to a Ryzen 5 4500U on an HP Envy x160 15z and HP Envy x360 13.
AMDConsidering that the Yoga Slim 7 weighs 3.1 pounds, and also considering the resolution and video quality settings and the codec it is processing, that’s not bad. Four years ago, that kind of laptop would have taken forever to accomplish this task.
For those wondering how much bump a Ryzen “H” class and discrete GPU would take, Davies showed the same export that runs on a Dell G5 15 SE, which features a Ryzen 7 4800H with a Radeon RX 5600M GPU. An MSI Bravo 17 was tested with the same Ryzen 7 4800H and a Radeon RX 5500M. Surprise: A discrete GPU is even better, as are the less thermally constrained design of these laptops.
AMDNo wonder: AMD did not say how laptops would work against Intel CPUs or Nvidia GPUs. AMD is likely to release the numbers to assure video editors that Premiere Pro no longer exclusively means Nvidia and Intel acceleration for encoding.
