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1. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
Harm Millaard Apr 10, 2012 7:30 AM (in response to icfm)If the choice is a 555M or a Radeon, that is a no-brainer: 555M only.
You do realize that a laptop can never keep up with a desktop for the same $$, that a laptop is not really a laptop, since you need a wall outlet to run it.
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2. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
icfm Apr 10, 2012 8:10 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)Hello Harm,
Thanks for posting. I don't want to take up too much of your time, but could you explain a bit about why the 555M would be much better than a Radeon?
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3. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
Harm Millaard Apr 10, 2012 9:02 AM (in response to icfm)Hardware MPE capabilities, which are lacking on all AMD cards. With rendering, and exporting using rendering, scaling, blending or blurring (not the encoding, that is 100% CPU bound) this will be around a factor 10 faster (for that part of the export) than all AMD cards.
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4. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
icfm Apr 10, 2012 10:24 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)Ok, I understand that only Nvidia cards provide hardware support for the MPE.
I just wasn't sure whether those benefits would be negated by the fact that the version of the 555M in the Clevo laptop has 128Bit DDR3.
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5. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
Harm Millaard Apr 10, 2012 11:59 AM (in response to icfm)Oh, that changes things significantly. Your nVidia card needs at least 1 Gb of VRAM. 128 MB will not do. Check if there is a nVidia card with at least 1 GB memory, otherwise hardware MPE will not be possible at all and then it really makes no difference whether you have an AMD or nVidia card.
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6. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
John T Smith Apr 10, 2012 12:03 PM (in response to icfm)>128Bit DDR3
Aside from the 128bit bandwidth (speed of transfer) how much video ram is on the card... is there at least 1 Gig?
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7. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
icfm Apr 10, 2012 12:03 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)It's 128-bit not 128MB! ;-) The card has 2GB of 128-bit DDR3 RAM (it's the third version of the card in this list: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-555M.41933.0.html)
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8. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
Harm Millaard Apr 10, 2012 12:08 PM (in response to icfm)OK, then it is useable for hardware MPE. The 128 bit memory bus just means it is not as fast as cards with 256 bit or even 384 bit memory busses, but still way faster than any AMD card.
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9. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
icfm Apr 10, 2012 4:04 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)Thanks for confirming that.
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10. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
jaqen Apr 14, 2012 4:48 PM (in response to icfm)icfm,
A very useful resource is the PPBM 5 website, it has extensive benchmark results of people's rigs on standardized tests. Filter out the results purely for laptops and it will be much more useful for you.
I recently experimented with a crappy geforce 525m and even that will suffice for your basic needs.
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11. Re: Is a GT 555M worth it for occasional use of Premiere Pro CS5.5?
icfm Apr 16, 2012 4:28 AM (in response to jaqen)Ok, thanks.



