My GPU usage is low.

[Alec Ondo]

I was using Adobe After Effects and while rendering, My GPU usage was at 1% and I enable GPU acceleration. My Cpu is ryzen 7 3700x and my GPU is rtx 2060 super. Rendering is so slow and I don't know why. Please help.

[skimmilk5]

Are you using the Mercury hardware encoder? What codecs or intermediaries are you using? Some codecs can be hardware accelerated, others cannot. Some workloads benefit from GPU acceleration, others don't.

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[Alec Ondo]

I have enabled Mercury hardware encoder but it is still 1%. How do I check my Codec?

[Roswell]

After Effects doesn’t really use GPU acceleration to any meaningful extent. You should be finishing projects in Premiere where there is an abundance of hardware acceleration options.

[Alec Ondo]

What should I upgrade to incrase After Effects? Ram? I have 32gb 3200mhz xmp p 1.

 

[Roswell]

1 hour ago, Alec Ondo said:

What should I upgrade to incrase After Effects? Ram? I have 32gb 3200mhz xmp p 1.

 

Nothing, your system is fine. Stop using After Effects as a video editor as I mentioned previously and use Premiere instead. You’ll have much better results that way.

[Alec Ondo]

IS there any component that can be changed to increase speeds?

[skimmilk5]

No, like everyone else is saying, use tools like these for the purposes for which they were intended. You'll have such a better time.

 

If all you do is After Effects work (say, you're a visual effects artist that uses C4D, AE, 3DS Max, or some other compositing software), then you need both high frequency and many cores. Get something like a Xeon W Gold or Platinum, AMD Epyc, or even the higher-end Threadripper parts. You might see a slight performance bump, but it won't be anything too significant. If you do literally anything else with your computer primarily (you game, edit video, work in data analytics, machine learning, work with desktop 2D graphics), then it'd just be a colossal waste of money for equal (if not worse) performance.

 

The bottleneck in this instance is After Effects, not your hardware. It's no secret that Adobe doesn't do a great job with software optimization on a regular basis (occasionally, they release an update that optimizes better at the expense of stability because they can't do both, then everyone gets mad that the software crashes all the time and they roll the update back). Once you hit a certain "critical point," the software's actually "too slow" to keep up with your hardware. The best you can do is make sure that your Adobe suite has enough access to memory (selectable in the user preferences as a RAM budget), make sure you're not running junk in the background that you don't need, and just be patient.

[Alec Ondo]

So After effects is just slow?