Hardware Articles

What H.264 and H.265 Hardware Decoding is Supported in Premiere Pro?

Posted on by Matt Bach

Premiere Pro supports hardware-based decoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) which can significantly improve performance with these codecs, but not all “flavors” of these codecs are supported depending on the bit depth and chroma subsampling used. In addition, support can change depending on the capability of the hardware in your system. In order to determine exactly what is supported, we decided to do our own testing to see exactly what types of H.264/5 media has hardware decoding support in Premiere Pro.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB Content Creation Review Featured Image

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB Content Creation Review

Posted on by Matt Bach

AMD has launched their new Radeon 7000 series of GPUs, including the 7900 XTX. NVIDIA has long had a lead for many content creation workflows, however. Is the new 7900 XTX fast enough to make AMD a viable alternative to NVIDIA?

Topaz AI Suite CPU and GPU Benchmark Performance Testing Analysis

Topaz AI: CPU & GPU Performance Analysis

Posted on by Matt Bach

Topaz AI is known for how exceptionally well they can iomprove images and videos, but they can be very hardware intensive. Exactly what CPU and GPU will give you the best performance?

7x NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU Performance Scaling

1-7x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU Scaling

Posted on by Matt Bach

Introduction About a month ago, NVIDIA began rolling out their new RTX 40 series GPUs, starting with the GeForce RTX 4090 24GB. The RTX 4090 is an incredibly powerful GPU, and in our content creation review, it easily blew past anything else on the market. In that same article, we included test results in both

Intel Core i9 13900K: Impact of MultiCore Enhancement and Long Power Duration Limits on Thermals and Content Creation Performance

Intel Core i9 13900K: Impact of MultiCore Enhancement (MCE) and Long Power Duration Limits on Thermals and Content Creation Performance

Posted on by Matt Bach

Intel’s 13th Gen processors bring terrific performance across the board, but many modern processors have been criticized for their high power draw and heat output. However, we have found that most CPUs only operate at these high temperatures when the motherboard BIOS is allowed to automatically overclock the processor above the official Intel specifications. Does running them at reference speeds impact performance, and how much of a difference does it make for thermals?

13th Gen Intel Core Processors Content Creation Review

13th Gen Intel Core Processors Content Creation Review

Posted on by Matt Bach

Following AMDs recent release of their Ryzen 7000 Series desktop processors, Intel is fighting back with their own launch of the Core 13th Gen processors (code named “Raptor Lake”). Unlike AMD’s launch which moved to a new socket and added support for DDR5, the 13th Gen CPUs are a drop-in upgrade for the 12th Gen processors since they share the same socket and existing support for DDR5 memory. Even though the base platform is largely unchanged, however, we still expect some big performance gains in a number of content creation workflows.