After Effects Minimum Requirements [better] Official

Laptop CPUs "throttle" (slow down) when they get hot. After Effects makes them hot in about 90 seconds. A laptop with "i9" specs will perform worse than a desktop with "i5" specs after 10 minutes of rendering because the laptop runs out of thermal headroom.

Now go make that glitter dystopia without the crash. after effects minimum requirements

We’ve all been there.

More RAM. If you can only buy one thing, buy RAM. Then set your disk cache to a fast SSD. Laptop CPUs "throttle" (slow down) when they get hot

Pro tip: NVIDIA is historically more stable with AE than AMD due to CUDA support. Most people buy a fast CPU and forget the hard drive. Big mistake. After Effects creates thousands of temporary cache files. If you are writing those to a slow mechanical hard drive (HDD), your computer will stutter even if you have a supercomputer for a CPU. Now go make that glitter dystopia without the crash

4GB VRAM (NVIDIA RTX 3050 / AMD Radeon 6600) The Pro: 8GB+ VRAM (NVIDIA RTX 4070+)

You open Adobe After Effects. You drag in a clip. You add one effect. The fan on your laptop roars to life like a jet engine. The playback stutters. A beach ball of death appears. Then, the crash.