
To make sure you do have this on, go to File > Project Settings > General. If you don’t have this on, you will either get a warning or experience higher render times and very slow playback. Many effects and plugins for Premiere Pro CC require GPU acceleration for rendering and playback.
PC: $2199 15″ Gigabyte Aero 15X v8-BK4 Notebook, 16GB Ram, 512GB SSD, GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB GDDR5). MAC: $2,499 13″ Macbook Pro, 16GB RAM, 512SSD, GPU: Integrated Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655. Here are my recommended laptop computer systems for both Mac and PC users. You definitely want to be editing from a computer that has an SSD. You also should know that solid state drives (SSDs) are much faster that than hard drives that depend on a spinning disk. First off, you want to make sure you have at least 8GB of RAM (I’d recommend even 16GB as a minimum) and a fast graphics processing unit (GPU).