Adobe Premiere Pro
Industry-standard professional video editing software. Uses both CPU and GPU simultaneously via the Mercury Playback Engine.
Adobe Premiere Pro is the industry-standard non-linear video editor used by filmmakers, broadcast editors, content creators, and studios. The Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) uses NVIDIA CUDA or AMD OpenCL to accelerate effects and real-time playback on the GPU.
Category: Video Editing | Developer: Adobe | Platform: Windows, macOS
- CPU: Fast multi-core + high clock speed. Intel i9-14900K or AMD Ryzen 9 7900X recommended.
- RAM: 32 GB for 4K editing; 64 GB for 8K or Premiere + After Effects simultaneously.
- GPU: 8 GB VRAM. Consumer RTX fully supported. RTX 3070/4070 sweet spot.
- Storage: Separate NVMe SSDs for OS and media.
What is Mercury Playback Engine? +
Mercury Playback Engine (MPE) is Adobe’s GPU acceleration framework in Premiere Pro. It uses CUDA or OpenCL to accelerate effect rendering, colour grading, and real-time playback.
Premiere Pro vs DaVinci Resolve — which needs more GPU? +
DaVinci Resolve is more GPU-dependent — its entire colour processing engine runs on GPU. Premiere Pro is more CPU-balanced. For pure colour grading, DaVinci benefits more from GPU investment.
We build video editing workstations with fast multi-core CPUs, 32–64 GB RAM, RTX GPU, and dual NVMe drives for smooth 4K editing.
