GPU and GPU Driver requirements

Understand how Premiere Pro uses your GPU to boost playback, rendering, and export, and learn how to keep your video drivers updated.

In Adobe Premiere Pro, your computer’s graphics processing unit (GPU) plays a crucial role in accelerating various video editing tasks, significantly improving performance.

Here's a breakdown of its primary functions:

• Hardware-accelerated decoding: Speeds up playback of popular formats.
• Rendering your timeline for playback and export: This includes effects and general compositing.
• Hardware-accelerated encoding: This speeds up export to certain popular formats.
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning processing: Sensei ML features, including Scene Edit Detection, Transcription, and Caption generation, run on GPU or dedicated ML hardware.

To ensure good performance and reliability, it is important to have a recent GPU driver installed in your operating system. Occasionally, an upgrade to a new version of Premiere Pro might require that you install an updated video driver. In addition, if Adobe is aware that a specific driver version may be incompatible with our applications, you will see a System Compatibility Report appear on application launch.

Check the OS documentation and ensure you have an updated video driver. If an IT department manages your computer, check with them first before installing a new driver, as some organizations manage driver installations centrally.

Updating video drivers on Windows

Video drivers for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs can be updated using Windows Update. For information on using Windows Update, refer to the documentation from Microsoft.

Updating video drivers on macOS

Video drivers for Macintosh computers are updated as part of macOS system updates. To update your macOS version, refer to the documentation from Apple.