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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Content Creation Review

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Evan Lagergren

The AM Radeon RX 9070 XT is here for $600 msrp. How does it compare to the 5070 Ti and 5070 in content creation applications?

AMD Ryzen 9950X3D 9900X3D Content Creation Review

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D Content Creation Review

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Evan Lagergren

AMD’s 9950X3D and 9900X3D are the best CPUs in the world for gaming. But does that come at the cost of content creation performance?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Content Creation Review

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Evan Lagergren

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070 looks disappointing on paper—but specs aren’t everything. How does it perform in content creation applications?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Content Creation Review

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Evan Lagergren

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070 Ti may be the budget king of the 50-series or may end up severeley over-priced.. How does it perform in content creation applications?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Content Creation Review

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Evan Lagergren

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5080 is primed to be NVIDIA’s workhorse GPU. How does it perform in content creation applications?

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Content Creation Review

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Evan Lagergren

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 is the most powerful consumer GPU in the world. How does it perform in content creation applications?

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Intel Arc B580 Content Creation Review

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Evan Lagergren

Intel’s second-gen Arc graphics, codenamed Battlemage, launches with the entry-level B580. How does it perform in content creation applications?

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Content Creation Review

Posted on November 7, 2024 by Evan Lagergren

We examine the performance of AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9800X3D in content creation applications.

What H.264 and H.265 Hardware Decoding is Supported in Premiere Pro?

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Matt Bach

Premiere Pro supports hardware-based decoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) which can significantly improve performance with these codecs, but not all “flavors” of these codecs are supported depending on the bit depth and chroma subsampling used. In addition, support can change depending on the capability of the hardware in your system. In order to determine exactly what is supported, we decided to do our own testing to see exactly what types of H.264/5 media has hardware decoding support in Premiere Pro.