Adobe After Effects Specs

| Component | Requirement | |-----------|-------------| | | Windows 10 (22H2) or macOS 13 (Ventura) | | CPU | Intel 6th Gen / AMD Ryzen 1000 series (4 cores) | | RAM | 16 GB (DDR4) | | GPU | 2 GB VRAM, DirectX 12 / Metal compatible | | Storage | 10 GB free SSD (not HDD) | | Display | 1280×1080 | | Internet | Required for licensing & cloud features |

| Component | Requirement | |-----------|-------------| | | Windows 11 Enterprise / macOS 15 (Sequoia) | | CPU | Intel i9 14th Gen / AMD Ryzen 9 7950X / Apple M3 Max (16 cores) | | RAM | 64–128 GB (ECC optional) | | GPU | NVIDIA RTX 4090 / RTX 6000 Ada (24 GB VRAM) | | Storage | RAID 0 NVMe (2+ TB) or NAS 10GbE | | Display | Dual 4K (Rec. 709 / DCI-P3) | | Additional | Dedicated cache drive (500 GB) | adobe after effects specs

Elias checked the specs. His card had plenty of power, but he was hitting a VRAM (Video RAM) wall. VRAM is the GPU’s private memory for textures and geometry. A 4K composition with complex lighting requires gigabytes of VRAM just to exist on the screen. If the VRAM fills up, the system defaults back to the slower CPU processing—or crashes entirely. | Component | Requirement | |-----------|-------------| | |

To the uninitiated, Adobe After Effects looks like a cluttered dashboard of buttons and timelines. But to Elias, it was a high-performance engine, and like any engine, it could only run as fast as the fuel he fed it. VRAM is the GPU’s private memory for textures and geometry

Intel 6th Gen or newer; AMD Ryzen 1000 or newer (AVX2 support required)

Newer versions feature High-Performance Preview Playback (HP) , which can use a fast NVMe SSD as a cache if you run out of physical RAM. GPU (The Specialist):