GPU Rendering Blender???

[TubsAlwaysWins]

So I want to render my blender projects with my GPU but it won't. I hear that you can only render with NVIDIA. Is this true? If not, how to I render with a R9 270X?

[GreezyJeezy]

not true, its just better if it has a lot of cuda cores

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EDIT: nvm

[TubsAlwaysWins]

4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

It should be called OpenGL Render Image under the render tab.

So It looks better CPU rendered?

Edit: Got it. YOu have to go to the render tab thing and then change the device from CPU to GPU compute

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1 minute ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

So It looks better CPU rendered?

Ignore that, I'm an idiot. Go to File, User Preferences. Then click on the tab called system, you should see in the bottom left an option called compute device and it should list none and OpenCL. Switch it to OpenCL.

[trag1c]

6 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

So It looks better CPU rendered?

No. Its the exact same as GPU. As far as performance goes GPU will be superior to CPU unless you need large amounts of ram. Blender supports both OpenCL and CUDA however CUDA is vastly more optimized so for the time being you're better off using a Nvidia GPU to render.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

2 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Ignore that, I'm an idiot. Go to File, User Preferences. Then click on the tab called system, you should see in the bottom left an option called compute device and it should list none and OpenCL. Switch it to OpenCL.

Got it