The 5 Best Laptops For Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 November

Truth is almost all laptops even those selling for 350 bucks can run Adobe Premiere.

The problem is…

Not all of them will let you apply effects and render previews fast enough.

Now…

If you don’t mind waiting several seconds for some effects to apply and waiting 30 min to render a 5 min FHD clip, you can go for 350 dollar laptops such as the one below:

**You can upgrade RAM to 16GB to make that laptop fast for simple FHD video editing with Adobe Premiere.

As far as this post …

We’ll only going to go over the top best laptops for adobe premiere which, yes, are going to be at least x2 as expensive but as the saying goes: they can all…

“Slice through video rendering like a warm knife on soft butter”

In other words, applying effects will be nearly instantaenous and final video rendering times will be cut down from hours to minutes.

What kind of laptop can do that?

To cut straight to the point…

Basically any laptop with a MODERN dedicated graphics card.

They’re not that expensive actually…what’s going to make them more expensive is having a dedicated graphics WHILE AT THE SAME TIME being portable.

I know some people reading this are looking for both power & portability as they probably have to be on the move quite a lot (perhaps to show clients progress)

But…

We’ll include both: heavy powerful laptops (cheap) and light powerful laptops (expensive).

Before we go over those laptops, let me quickly go over the best laptop specs for adobe premiere pro so you can find similar laptops on your own or just because you want to understand why I’m listing the following 5 laptops for Adobe Premiere Pro.

If you head over to Adobe Premiere’s Official Site and check the hardware recommendations, they’re basically:

The Best Laptop For Adobe Premiere Pro Core i H 4.6 GHz (8 Cores)

16GB RAM DDR4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX GB vRAM

512GB PCIe NVMe

15” Full HD IPS 144Hz

5.25 lb

4 hours

GPU: 3080RTX (85W) – 8GB vRAM

Although workstation laptops (with the latest RTX Quadro A5000 which have 16GB vRAM) may be the best laptop for Adobe Premiere and any kind of video editing software, the software does not seem to benefit much , IF ANYTHING, when you have vRAM beyond 8GB vRAM for 1080p video editing.

In fact, even 8GB vRAM is kind of overkill for most people UNLESS you edit video on 4k-6k AND render edits with a lot GPU-accelerated effects. .

Notice how the description says (105W), that’s a very important spec when it comes to price because lower wattage GPUs are much much cheaper than their full wattage counterparts and since as video editors we’re just after vRAM….we can save ourselves a LOT of money with the lower wattage high tier GPUs.

Of course, you’ll get better performance when rendering and exporting with the full wattage version but gains would be minimal.

CPU: Core i H

The CPU is way way more important than the GPU. A mid-range GPU like the 3060RTX (we’ll go over that one next) paired up with a better CPU than this model we’ll perform far better than a laptop with an 8GB vRAM dGPU and a lower-clock CPU.

I mention and benchmark this in the last section but basically Adobe Premiere makes no use of more than 8 cores for rendering previews and exporting and the Core i7 has 8 Cores ( 16 threads) so you’re getting maximum CPU power here.

MSI GP66 LeopardPROSCONS * High-tier GPU
* 8GB vRAM for 4k & 6k video editing
* Low priced 3080RTX Laptop
* Low wattage (cool temperatures)
* 8 Core CPU
* Easy to upgrade RAM & Storage

* Heavy
* Expensive
* Low TGP
* Bulky
* Low Battery

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Best Lenovo Laptop For Adobe Premiere Pro

AMD Ryzen H

16GB DDR4

NVIDIA RTX GB PCIe NVMe

15” full HD 144Hz IPS

5.5 lbs

4 hours

I would say this is the best laptop for Adobe Premiere for about 95% of the people who came across this post.

GPU: 3060RTX 130W

Whether you are a student or professional there’s no way you’ll need more graphics performance than the 3060RTX. Rendering and previews usually take 20 min for an effect on a 15 min clip, 5 min for 3 min clip and 2 min for a 1 min clip, it is pretty much the same for the 3080RTX GPU with difference in the seconds.

You can either pick the 105W 3060RTX or the full wattage 130W 3060RTX, just try to avoid the low wattage 85W 3060RTX. The high wattage 3060RTX will make a significant difference over the low wattage ones (this isn’t the case with the high tier 3070 and 3080RTX who even at low wattages are powerful).

CPU: Core i H or AMD Ryzen H

This model ALSO comes with a Core i H or in this AMD Ryzen H (both are equivalent in multicore and single clock speed performance for video editing) which is way more important than having a full wattage 3060RTX or a 3080RTX. Now, it may be a good idea for those on a budget to go with the lower wattage 3060RTX + Core i7/Ryzen 7 you will get high performance but unfortunately you won’t find this CPU with low TGP 3060RTX. In laptops, at least in 2022, these two come hand in hand.

RAM & Storage:

Because this is a 17” laptop RAM & Storage upgrade is easy. You can choose to upgrade RAM up to 32GB and even 64GB. Just because it is a 17 inch laptop does not mean you can have more than 2 storage drives in it, this and most laptops under 3000 bucks (this one is only 1300 bucks ) only support x2 SSD upgrades.

Lenovo Legion 5 ProPROSCONS * inch display
* Best Mid-range GPU for 4k video editing
* Highest TGP for a 3060RTX 130W
* Great Cooling System
* 64GB RAM upgradeable

* Low Battery
* Not easy to fit in backpack
* Not ideal for 6k video editing
* Expensive

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