You Don't Need a Dedicated GPU for 4k Video Editing Anymore

In this video, I am going to walk you through some benchmarks from the latest mobile low wattage CPUs from Intel and Ryzen to show you that you no longer need a dedicated GPU for 4k video editing. ►⏩►⏩ Check specs and pricing in the links below…

If you've been watching my channel for a while then you will know that I have been a STRONG advocate for dedicated GPUs for video editing. I have long said that 4k video editing required a dedicated GPU, but now with the release of Intel i7-1260P and Ryzen 7 6800U, I am seeing that you can now edit 4k video comfortably with thin and light laptops.

In regards to 6k I would still recommend a dedicated GPU as that footage still requires a lot of graphics processing.

💻 Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED *Ryzen 7 6800U* ( Currently Unavailable )

Timestamps:
0:00 - Can you edit 4k video on thin and light laptops?
0:51 - 4k Video Editing Playback in Premiere Pro
2:44 - 4k Video Export Time out of Premiere Pro
3:41 - 4k Video Editing Battery Life

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[ValleyRC]

Pretty impressive stuff.

Naturally, they aren't infallibly perfect, but to put it in perspective, my old Dell with an i7 4500U and dedicated graphics, which could play 4k back just fine in a video playing app, drops about 90% of the frames playing back a 4k clip inside premiere or vegas etc, even with the lowest resolution preview which is just a handful of lego pixels!

Even something as rudimentary as clicking from one point in the timeline to another can result in a delay of several seconds, making even the most basic aspects of editing tedious and time consuming. Combined with the hopelessly bad playback rates, even with the very lowest preview quality, and you didn't really know quite what you were going to get until you finished the render (which took an age of itself) only to have to go back and try again if there was some small issue you just couldn't make out.

So while not the very best of the best, perhaps, these newer generation integrated GPUS are still a pleasure to edit video with compared to stuff from a few years ago. They feel much smoother and editing is a much more pleasant process. Even when you start adding filters etc, the experience is still much more fluid and usable.

For a long time, I resorted to editing 4k on my phones because compared to my old laptop, they cut through 4k like a knife through butter with their highly optimised hardware decoding and encoding, and the comparative lack of features in the software was more than offset by the usability and reduced hair pulling. I could even mirror my phone screen into my laptop using Samsung Dex and it was STILL a more fluid and pleasant experience than using native windows software.

Now I'm happy to say that the newer generations of IG have finally caught up enough that editing 4k on a relatively budget machine is now a pleasant experience and not an exercise in frustration. Much closer to the smoothness that decent phones offer but with the benefit of much more capable editing software.

[MoChuang]

I’m curious, why do tech tubers show values that are not normalized? Like number of frames dropped. Or export time. Would it not be more informative to show frames dropped as a percent of total frames? And to list export time as a ratio of export time over video length.

[kostasvapo]

If possible try to do some 1080p editing on these laptops with some filters applied on them (on both premiere and resolve) like de-noising, color correction, motion tracking, color grading, video-stabilization. (Their class of hardware is not for 4K editing, more likely of 1080p with 720p proxies)

[HDRPC]

Wow again insane video. thanks alot. This will help alot. Watching from India.

[SagarCubes]

What I would love to see is hardcore editing. Not just 4k. Even normal 1080p, can these laptops render multiple layers of Resovle FX and stuff like that in Davinci Resolve 18 FAST?

[marcoantoniourielcampatorr]

As always, ur videos are a must to watch

[andrewkunyev]

Hi Ben. Great videos, thank you. May I ask for some advise. Looking to buy Inspiron 16 5620 laptop. There are two options for similar price Intel Core i7-1260P with 512gb drive and Intel Core i7-1255U with 1TB. Both have 16GB RAM and Irix Xe Graphics. Is 1260P much better for video edit? I am tempted with larger hard drive on 1255u. Thank you!

[dukelarouge]

Okay friend, I'm into this kind of material. You have to tell us how much memory, super important for iGPU editing performance, and what exact format, "4K" tells us Jack S. 4K 10bit 422 H.265? 4K 24P H.264? SONY XAVC? XAVC-S? You got the stuff I'm interested in your hands & you're going through the motions, but not giving the info dump an editor needs. It's not very helpful, and you hope you'll drown us in specifics as you continue.

[themadears]

Please do Ryzen ai 365 for 4k video editing.

[azymight]

in my part of the world, no one export 4k video proferssionally

[mariozamora]

Ben, can you please review any laptop with the Intel Arc 370m GPU? Thanks, I cannot find a video with relation to content creator.

[maqsstudio.]

WHICH IS BETTER?
Asus Rog flow x13. Specs: Ryzen 7 6800h, AMD integrated graphics RDNA2 680m, 16gb ram, 512G SSD, 120hz

Asus Vivobook pro 14x oled. Ryzen 9 5900hx, Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050, 16gb ram, 512G SSD, 90hz

I'm soon to be an ENGINEERING student and I want to know which of these laptops is BEST for me since both of them are almost at the SAME PRICE.

What makes me hesitated to buy is that I could get ASUS ROG flow x13 Ryzen 7 for the same price as the other BUT the downside is that it only has an integrated gpu but they say rdna2 igpus are not bad anymore and also ROG Flow x13 alone is built for gaming. Now on the other hand Vivobook pro 14x oled has Ryzen 9 and Nvidia RTX 3050 dedicated gpu already, now that is amazing but, Vivobook is not built for heavy gaming or rendering im not sure if it will still run smoothly even tho it has R9 and rtx3050 and im worried if the Thermals of this laptop can handle what R9 and RTX 3050 needs and lastly, flow x13 has 120hz and vivobook 14x has 90hz only.

I really appreciate if someone could answer this.

[faisalalmutairii]

is rtx 3050 enough for 4k editing? i want to get x1 extreme gen 4. thanks

[jamesmorelandoliver]

would a 12gen i7 processor and an Nvidia 3060 GPU work for desktop 4k video editing? what would be the drawbacks with that GPU? thanks.

[HDRPC]

I think battery is Samsung is not low. I mean Intel CPU has not have bad battery. Only minor better battery on ryzen. But video editing capabilities of Intel is night and day. 2 minutes export time difference. I think Intel will also perform better in timeline scrolling.

[Mr.Deditor]

Intel Evo i5 12500H iris xe graphics
Is it okay for photoshop and Adobe after effects and Adobe premiere Pro for editing in 1080p 60fps and will it be smooth ? And can we try 4k 60fps ?

[kaarthikarun]

Please make a review on Asus zenbook s13 oled amd ryzen 5 6600u laptop. I mean the base model

[chiragmehta]

Would an i7 1355U with integrated Xe be perfect for camtasia screencasts and editing within it and also moderate photoshop and illustrator like logo making etc?

[MikeyYuanY]

Can those things do motion graphics on premiere pro?

[Android.Paranormal]

The dropped frame number is pretty impressive on the Galaxy Book Pro2. I was convinced until those export times. If it's not around 2 hours, then that's a no go for me.

I just need a 12th gen intel ultrabook with thunderbolt, non-OLED display with greater than 95% Adobe RGB and 400+ nits, with at least 3050ti and I'd be happy. Haven't found 1 yet under $1, 500 that matches that yet.