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My Smartphone renders 4K-footage 29x faster than my PC

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Markr041 Forum Pro • Posts: 10,078
Re: My Smartphone renders 4K-footage 29x faster than my PC

east2west wrote:

When I came home from a recent travel I had shot more than 270 GB of 4K-videos - which is roughly about 270 minutes together.

I have a very very basic PC with a Celeron 2 core 2,7 GHz processor and 8GB RAM. While that is mostly good enough for me in every day use, cutting selected clips, put them together and export them as a 4K "movie" is very slow - and a preview is next to impossible.

So I tried whether my ASUS smartphone (Snapdragon 875 / 8 GB RAM) could also handle my Nikon Z50 video clips with it's integrated video editor. To my surprise it could and was extremely fast in rendering with a perfect preview.

I put 10 clips together (1,09 GB) in a row and rendered them to a 1min16sec movie.

Rendering time on my PC with Shotcut - 19min55sec
Rendering time on my Smartphone - 41sec

So the phone was more than 29x faster than my PC. I didn't expect this. I actually wanted to buy a new PC just for video editing. But what components would I really need to just equal the processing power of my smartphone? AMD or Intel (i5/i7/i9), which graphic card and how much RAM woud be needed? I would like to hear what your set up on your Notebook or PC is for a similar rendering time. Thanks a lot!

Mac mini m1. 8 GB RAM is fine. That's it. Will handle any video codec with ease - hardware encoding and decoding. No need to worry about graphics cards or processors. Yes, I use it. Not based on specs. I shoot 4K, 5K, 6K, 8K and edit and render with it easily.

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