I DO realize that Premier Pro is kinda designed to perform best with Nvidia GPU's. But it DOES kick in when I check my Activity Monitor.

I DO realize that the AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT is NOT on the list of compatible GPU's. It is also faster on my 2015 MacBook Pro (although it has gotten slower with each new release of Premiere Pro.

Premiere Pro was faster on my old 2011 iMac (with much lower specs than my new machine). Despite weeks of research, I'm still uncertain if this is a Catalina issue, a GPU issue, Premiere not using multi-cores properly, something to do with Apple's 5K monitor, or some simple setting I've missed or was unaware of. Nothing solves the terribly slow rendering and playback lag. I have gone through all updates for both the software and the computer OS.

I have tried everything.ĪMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 16GB of GDDR6 MemoryĪnd before anyone jumps to clearing caches, moving caches to separate SSD's, proxies, using Metal vs software, different project or sequence settings, etc. Premiere Pro is virtually unusable on my brand new, top-of-the-line iMac.

Does davinci resolve support 5k