Supported codecs and drivers for hardware-accelerated decoding

Learn about the codec platforms and drivers for hardware-accelerated decoding supported in Adobe Premiere Pro.

The hardware–accelerated decoding works with MP4 media, specifically H.264/AVC and HEVC codecs. Premiere Pro, Adobe Media Encoder, and Adobe After Effects version 22.0 later support HEVC 4:2:2 10-bit hardware accelerated decoding on Intel platforms.

The M2TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) isn't supported. If using 4K M2TS media, transcoding it to a supported MP4 codec may help improve playback performance as the transcoded MP4 media can take advantage of hardware-accelerated decoding. However, performance gain might not be substantial if transcoding HD M2TS media.

The processing for hardware accelerated decoding on an Integrated Intel® GPU on systems with 8GB or lesser RAM can be limited and might result in the CPU taking over the processing as the Integrated GPU uses the RAM as shared GPU memory. Having 16GB of RAM or more is recommended for better performance.

Recommended Intel driver and processor versions

For best performance, Adobe recommends the following driver and processor versions for HEVC 4:2:2 10-bit hardware accelerated decoding:

• Driver xx.x.100.9126 or later for 11th Generation Intel® Core™ with Iris® Xe Graphics, with UHD Graphics, and with Iris® Xe Max Graphics
• Driver xx.x.100.9894 or later for 10th Generation Intel® Core™ :
  • Intel® Core™ i7-1068NG7 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i7-1060G7 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i5-1035G4 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i5-1035G7 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i5-1038NG7 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i5-1035G1 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i5-1030G7 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i5-1030G4 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i3-1005G1 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i3-1000G1 Processor
  • Intel® Core™ i3-1000G4 Processor
  • Intel® Pentium® Processor 6805