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Why Is Blender Not Rendering With GPU?

Blender also allows rendering with the GPU, which can make a huge difference in speed. But sometimes, your Blender project does not work with the GPU as it should.

Why Blender Is Not Rendering on GPU?

GPU Not Enabled

Blender might not be rendering using your GPU by default

Solution: Edit > Preferences > System, under Cycles Render Devices make sure the GPU (CUDA or OptiX) is checked.

Outdated Drivers

Although you can get away with relying on the older drivers, Blender needs newer GPU drivers to work just fine.

Solution: you must update the drivers of your GPU from the website of the manufacturer (NVIDIA or AMD).

GPU Insufficient Memory

Where a scene with complex materials and lots of footage can easily overflow the available VRAM.

Solution: Reduce the memory load through this, or simplify the scene.

Unsupported GPU

Remember that not all GPU devices can render with Blender so please do check yours (especially if your device is older or integrated).

Solution: Make sure that your GPU supports Blender!

Fixing these things helps a lot, but the GPUs rendering in blender is way more interesting because cycles render works well with this mode and lets you render faster as mentioned in the last top gear.

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