GPU and GPU driver recommendations for Premiere Pro

Learn about the GPU and GPU requirements for Premiere Pro

After updating to Premiere Pro, there may be driver issues, and you must upgrade your driver.

To avoid such issues, we recommend installing the latest Studio driver for the supported NVIDIA GPUs:

• Studio driver for GeForce GTX/RTX desktop GPUs
• Studio driver for GeForce GTX/RTX notebook GPUs
• Studio driver for RTX/Quadro desktop and notebook GPUs

NVIDIA has stopped releasing Studio Drivers for the 900 series and below. For these GPUs, you may use the latest Game Ready Drivers.

Also, NVIDIA has ended support for Kepler mobile GPUs. If you're using one of these devices, the system compatibility report In Premiere Pro alerts you that your driver must be updated. However, there are no driver updates for this series.

Some of the driver issues that you could face are:

• Green, pink, or purple streaks after importing a file or in the exported file. Fix the Green and pink video in Premiere Pro.
• The renderer option is greyed out when you navigate to File> Project Settings > General.
• Intermittent crash while editing.
• No previews, garbled previews, frame drops, or performance issues, including slow playback or frame glitches. This article explains what’s needed for using CUDA, Intel, and Apple Metal GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro.

How Premiere Pro works with dual GPU systems

If you are using a system with dual GPUs, then:

1. Premiere Pro with Open CL: Premiere Pro first checks for the Intel/AMD driver.
2. Premiere Pro with CUDA: Premiere Pro first checks for the NVIDIA driver.