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| :menuselection:`Properties --> Render --> Device`. | :menuselection:`Properties --> Render --> Device`. | ||||
| Supported Hardware | Rendering Technologies | ||||
| ================== | ====================== | ||||
| Blender supports different technologies to render on the GPU depending on the particular GPU manufacturer. | Blender supports different technologies to render on the GPU depending on the particular GPU manufacturer | ||||
| and operating system. | |||||
| .. note:: With all GPU rendering technologies, :doc:`/render/shader_nodes/osl` is not supported. | |||||
| Nvidia | |||||
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| :abbr:`CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)` and OptiX are supported | CUDA -- Nvidia | ||||
| for GPU rendering with Nvidia graphics cards. | -------------- | ||||
| .. note:: :doc:`/render/shader_nodes/osl` is not supported. | :abbr:`CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)` is supported on Windows and Linux and requires a | ||||
| Nvidia graphics cards with compute capability 3.0 and higher. To make sure your GPU is supported, | |||||
| CUDA | |||||
| ^^^^ | |||||
| CUDA requires graphics cards with compute capability 3.0 and higher. | |||||
| To make sure your GPU is supported, | |||||
| see the `list of Nvidia graphics cards <https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus#compute>`__ | see the `list of Nvidia graphics cards <https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus#compute>`__ | ||||
| with the compute capabilities and supported graphics cards. | with the compute capabilities and supported graphics cards. | ||||
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| .. _render-cycles-gpu-optix: | .. _render-cycles-gpu-optix: | ||||
| OptiX | OptiX -- Nvidia | ||||
| ^^^^^ | --------------- | ||||
| OptiX requires graphics cards with compute capability 5.0 and higher and a driver version of at least 470. | OptiX is supported on Windows and Linux and requires a Nvidia graphics cards with compute capability 5.0 and higher | ||||
| To make sure your GPU is supported, | and a driver version of at least 470. To make sure your GPU is supported, | ||||
| see the `list of Nvidia graphics cards <https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus#compute>`__ | see the `list of Nvidia graphics cards <https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus#compute>`__ | ||||
| OptiX works best on RTX graphics cards with hardware ray tracing support (e.g. Turing and above). | OptiX works best on RTX graphics cards with hardware ray tracing support (e.g. Turing and above). | ||||
| AMD | HIP -- AMD | ||||
| --- | ---------- | ||||
| :abbr:`HIP (Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability)` is enabled | :abbr:`HIP (Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability)` is supported on Windows and requires a | ||||
| for GPU rendering with AMD graphics cards on Windows. Blender supports GPU rendering | discrete AMD graphics card with the RDNA architecture or newer and AMD Radeon Software 21.12.1 | ||||
| on discrete graphics cards with the AMD RDNA architecture or newer | or AMD Radeon PRO Software 21.Q4 GPU drivers and newer. | ||||
| and AMD Radeon Software 21.12.1 or AMD Radeon PRO Software 21.Q4 GPU drivers or newer. | |||||
| Support GPUs include: | Support GPUs include: | ||||
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| Please refer to `AMD's website <https://www.amd.com/en/graphics>`__ for more | Please refer to `AMD's website <https://www.amd.com/en/graphics>`__ for more | ||||
| information about AMD graphics cards and their architectures. | information about AMD graphics cards and their architectures. | ||||
| .. note:: The *Clip* extension mode in the :doc:`/render/shader_nodes/textures/image` is not supported. | |||||
| .. note:: Unsupported Features: | |||||
| - :doc:`/render/shader_nodes/osl` | Metal -- Apple Mac | ||||
| - *Clip* extension mode in the :doc:`/render/shader_nodes/textures/image` | ------------------ | ||||
| Apple | |||||
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| Metal is enabled for GPU rendering on Apple Silicon using macOS 12.0 (Monterey) and newer. | Metal is enabled for GPU rendering on Apple Silicon using macOS 12.0 (Monterey) and newer. | ||||
| .. note:: :doc:`/render/shader_nodes/osl` is not supported. | |||||
| Frequently Asked Questions | Frequently Asked Questions | ||||
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