Puget Bench Support for Premiere & After Effects 27.0

Posted on November 11, 2026 (November 10, 2026) by Matt Bach | Last updated: November 10, 2026

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Introduction

Adobe is currently rolling out the latest 27.0 versions of both Premiere and After Effects. To support these releases, we’re also publishing minor updates: Puget Bench for Premiere Pro 2.1.1 and Puget Bench for After Effects 1.2.0.

While these benchmark changes primarily update project files for proper compatibility, there are a number of improvements and bug fixes in the new Premiere and After Effects versions worth noting.

Adobe Premiere 27.0

Among the various changes and improvements in Adobe Premiere 27.0, two of them affect performance benchmarking – both related to ARM.

First is the addition of GPU support for NVIDIA RTX Spark™ devices. Previous versions were unable to detect the RTX Spark GPU, preventing Premiere from functioning properly.

The second change is also related to ARM, but covers both RTX Spark and Snapdragon: the addition of RAW codec support on Windows ARM devices. This includes Cinema RAW Light, ARRIRAW, N-RAW, and R3D, but, unfortunately, does not include Sony X-OCN. As a result, Puget Bench for Premiere can now be run on all Windows ARM devices using the “Standard” benchmark preset. The “Extended” preset still cannot complete due to the lack of X-OCN support.

Adobe After Effects 27.0

Like Premiere, Adobe After Effects 27.0 adds full support for NVIDIA RTX Spark devices.

In addition, it fixes a bug from After Effects 26.5 affecting compositions that use the Advanced 3D rendering engine (as exposed in our benchmark by the “3D Camera Explode” test). This issue prevented the Extended benchmark preset from completing on Windows-based devices. With this issue resolved, Windows devices can now run and complete both the Puget Bench for After Effects “Standard” and “Extended” benchmark presets.

Full Update Notes

Puget Bench for Premiere Pro 2.1.1

Added support for Premiere 27.x
No significant changes to tests or scoring

Puget Bench for After Effects 1.2.0

Added support for After Effects 27.x beta
Minor adjustment to the Tracking composition to account for new UI warning when applying tracking to a non-precomped layer
No significant changes to tests or scoring

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