Does Ryzen 2600 or 1600 require gpu to operate premiere pro efficiently?

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On a budget looking to build specifically to work with Lightroom, Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere Pro. No games. No OC.

Trying to decide between Ryzen 5 2600x (280 CAD) or an I5 8600K (330 CAD).

Intel CPUs have powerful enough integrated gpu that you can get away with not having a graphics card for working in premiere pro or editing photos.

But Ryzen 5s don't have any integrated gpu, how well would these programs operate with no such on board graphics?

Ryzen 5s save additional money by including cooler. But if it necessitates getting a gpu to work then it seems more worth it to go for Intel, skip dedicated graphics card, and get a cooler.

What are your thoughts, experiences? Thanks.
 
For the Ryzen chips you must have a dedicated graphics card to provide video output. Now if you don't plan on using GPU acceleration in these applications, it can be something cheap like say a GT 710 if all you need is basic display only. Intel has the advantage of integrated graphics, and I think they do tend to bench better in a lot of those Adobe applications despite having fewer threads, so if you're dead set against getting a graphics card, then going the Intel route might be better, though you would lose out on performance on anything that does benefit from the additional threads Ryzen offers.
 

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Perfect thanks for the response.