Poor Adobe Premiere performance on Threadripper

jphm95 · June 5, 2020

Hi,

Looking for some advice, we've just switched from a 2010 Mac pro to a Threadripper 3970x/RTX 2080 Super build with 64GB of Memory, and the switch has been poor to say the least.

We're only dealing with 1080p footage but we've seen usability drop as we've moved from the Mac across to the Threadripper with an increase in dropped frames sometimes even on single clips with no effects.

The reason we switched was predominantly due to the fact that the Mac was starting to struggle with 5/6 camera multi-cam footage but the Threadripper struggles to manage it even to a level on par with the 10 year old Mac.

Both systems are running the same up to date version of CC and the Threadripper has NVMe SSDs for footage, whilst the Mac is still coping with HDDs. Even on exporting we're not seeing the gains we expected.

We've run a number of benchmarks to make sure the HW is not the issue and they all came back with the expected performance, even a dip into DaVinci Resolve performed as expected.

I know Premiere is known for poor optimization but I'd at least expect the 3970x to do better than a 10 year old Mac.

Any ideas on what we could try to get a usable experience out of our new kit? and just to note we've tried fixes such as turning CUDA on/off, messing with the Nividia control panel, transcoding all h.264 footage

desetefa · July 8, 2020

Hi! I'm using a Threadripper 1950X and am also disappointed with the performance. (GeForce 1070, 32GB RAM, NVMe)

Do you use the Markers panel at all? I want to upgrade to a 3900X and a lot of the reason is that the Markers Panel is unusable, so slow it might as well be a slideshow. I'm not sure tho, if it's an AMD vs. Intel thing (the markers window runs decently well on my i9 Macbook Pro) or if it's just that the Threadripper 1950X has bad single core performance. (Scores 30 points lower than my Macbook Pro on Cinebench R20).

Do you use the markers pane at all? I'm trying to see if it will actually run better with an upgraded CPU or not, especially an upgraded AMD CPU.

Thanks!!!