Premiere 13.0 and 4th Gen Intel processor?

[pablogrollan]

Hi all!

I know the "new" requirements for Premiere CC state that you need a 6th generation Intel processor on Win 10, but has anyone tried it on older processors such as 5th and 4th gen?

I have an old i7 4771, but the rest of the system is OK: W10, 32GB RAM, GTX1070 (which is not listed as "supported" but works just as fine) and 4 SSDs to distribute the tasks.

I know I should be upgrading, but a change in processor means a change in mobo and RAM... My question is: Is the 6th gen requirement a real "condition" or do old processors work -not as fast, obviously- just like the ton of non-approved GTX Nvidia cards that work just as fine as the approved ones.

Thanks for your help!

[Ann Bens]

There is only one way to find out: try it!

[pablogrollan]

True. But then again I was trying to save me the pain of having to revert to a previous version if the incompatibility breaks all hell loose on my system.

[Stan Jones]

I am now ridiculously below spec. I have not pushed the system (except for a demanding H.264 export), but it is working. That does not mean that some features will not work.

First generation i7 930, GTX 760 with only 2GB of VRAM. Otherwise, okay: Win 10, 24GB RAM, 4K monitor.

Even more motivated to get a new computer!

[pablogrollan]

Was that on version 13.0? If so, wow! Please report if you feel it lags or doesn't perform as before.. and thank you very much!

[Stan Jones · Accepted solution]

I need to figure out what matters. For example, H264/HEVC hardware acceleration is simply not present on the CPUs prior to certain generations. So I/you would not have that. But so far, the CUDA acceleration is turning on.

I just added an SSD system drive. I don't know that any routine editing is any different; but booting up is a whole different world!

Edit: Yes, 13.0.

[pablogrollan]

Thanks a lot, it's very useful to know that you can access some of the new and improved features an that the new version is not just plain incompatible with older processors,