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In this tutorial, I run you through the setup required (Windows 7, 64 bit) to get Cycles rendering with an nVidia GPU.
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Blender 2.6 Tutorial – GPU Setup for Cycles Rendering
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In this tutorial, I run you through the setup required (Windows 7, 64 bit) to get Cycles rendering with an nVidia GPU.
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15 responses to “Blender 2.6 Tutorial – GPU Setup for Cycles Rendering”
very helpful, other videos didn't show exactly where the setting was they just talked about it. much appreciated.
Hello, I have a GTX 970 graphic card and 16GB RAM and when i set the setting to render in GPU it crashed and send me the message "Out of memory in cuMemAlloc(&device_pointer, size)" . I don´t know what´s going on, please help!!!!
Perfect. Thanks!
Wow, now I understand why my AMD ATI Radeon graphics isn't recognized with Blender. Is there any way we could enable CUDA for AMD graphics card?
Okay, great.
i'm running 2 560's and its working now.
I just found a link that suggests that the GTX-7xxx series of card are NOT supported; only the 4xx, 5xx and 6xx series. That's news to me as well. I had searched "blender nvidia gpu card compatibility". I'm unable to post a link in this message.
I suspect most of the GTX cards are supported. I'd try updating the nVidia drivers first but I'll see if I can find a link to the supported nVidia cards so you know for sure.
So GTX 780 is not supported? wtf! Well i will try an older card….
You need certain graphic cards installed for that option to come to life. For instance, with nVidia cards, you need the GTX series 460, 470, 580 or similar cards. I'm not sure what ATI cards will work but if you search Cycles Blender Graphic Cards, you'll likely find the information somewhere. Also, if you have a card that's compatible, make sure you have the most current drivers as well, or you might not see those options either. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching.
id ont have an option to change between cpu or gpu…
A couple of ideas might help. I read somewhere that version 2.67 requires graphics cards with Cuda 2.0 so you might check if you find the GPU settings on a previous version of Blender. I had missing GPU settings as well, until I updated my GTX-470 drivers to the latest version. You might see if you have the latest motherboard drivers as well. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching.
thanks this really helped rendering with CPU takes for ever I got a GTX 470 my self
I've seen other fast i7 processors like yours achieve similar results. It's probably faster than my setup!! I'm guessing it's because you probably have a huge amount of cache memory with that Intel processor. Thanks for the comparison.
I'm on Linux Mint Mate 14.1. I have a core i7 3770k cpu and a gt 440 video card. I used I used Mike Pan's BMW1 blend file and here's what I got. The default settings in Blender were cpu. I ran that file and got a render in 2 minutes 26 seconds. I then made the changes in blender to use GPU rendering. It took over 5 minutes to render the same file. I know a GTX 470 is faster than a GT 440 but my cpu beats my gpu hands down in cycles rendering. I would think that the GPU would still be close.