After Effects GPU‑Accelerated Renderer and Adobe Media Encoder Dynamic Link: Memory Leak Persistence?

The GPU‑accelerated renderer in After Effects received a fix in version 23.5.0 that releases texture buffers per frame, eliminating the steady memory growth seen during RAM preview with effects such as Twixtor or Element 3D.

When the same composition is sent to Adobe Media Encoder via Dynamic Link for background rendering, users report that the memory leak can reappear, suggesting an interoperability gap between the AE render queue and Media Encoder’s handling of GPU resources.

The core uncertainty is whether Adobe should automatically switch Dynamic Link jobs to the CPU renderer when a GPU memory leak is detected, or continue to rely on manual user intervention.

Does the GPU‑accelerated renderer leak persist when compositions are sent to Media Encoder via Dynamic Link after the 23.5.0 patch? Should Adobe implement automatic CPU fallback for Dynamic Link jobs when a GPU memory leak is detected? Is manual disabling of GPU acceleration the only reliable workaround?