Photo & Video Editing Adobe Workstations

While choosing a workstation for video editing software like Premiere Pro and After Effects are often used together, they rely on your system differently.

• CPUs: Premiere Pro and After Effects are demanding on your CPU, especially when encoding and rendering previews. For the fastest export times, you need a powerful CPU. These programs are only lightly threaded during encoding, meaning they use four to eight CPU cores depending on the project. Our Adobe Creative Cloud workstations are optimized to handle this efficiently and speed up the process.
• GPUs: While a GPU doesn’t help with the actual encoding (saving a file to your computer), it can speed up processing some effects before encoding. If your project doesn’t use GPU-accelerated effects, the GPU might not be heavily involved in the export process. Our extensive testing has shown minimal performance difference between mid-range and high-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards in After Effects. The key is to choose a GPU with enough VRAM (Video Random Access Memory)—10GB or more should be sufficient for complex projects and demanding effects. Therefore, our recommendation for After Effects workstations remains NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards. Their proven track record, along with ongoing innovation, ensures reliable performance and optimal workflow efficiency.
• Multiple GPUs: Using multiple GPUs won’t significantly improve performance for scrubbing and editing footage in the timeline. However, Premiere Pro can benefit from multiple GPUs if you use the Mercury Playback Engine’s GPU-accelerated effects and need to scale footage.
• Recommended RAM Configurations

64GB RAM: Ideal for 1080p Projects
128GB RAM: Suitable for 4K Projects
256GB RAM: Best for 8K+ Projects

Choose the right RAM configuration based on your project needs to ensure smooth and efficient performance.