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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21"> We are facing an error in our internal testing while rendering using Blender, with our latest chip running Shader Model 6.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21">>> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">“cuda binary kernal for this graphics card compute capability 6.0 not found”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21"> We see app creates context, checks for sm version, and then destroys the context and quits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21"> <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
Does Blender NOT support shader model 6.0? If so, are there any immediate plans to support it?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21">Thanks and regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21">Nadir Cazi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21">SW-GPU,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21">Nvidia Graphics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404F21"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:#404F21"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:#404F21">P.S.: Exact steps to reproduce error:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">1. Launch Blender app, double click to open. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">2. Click on file > Open > select any project by traversing to the path it is saved. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">3. Go to File > User Preference > System, select CUDA under "Compute Device". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">4. Close User Preference. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">5. Click on the Render option (small camera icon) toward the right view. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">6. There should be a "Device" drop-down option, which is defaulted to "CPU", change that to "GPU Compute". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">7. Render the active scene by clicking the render option, which is the button with the small camera with the word "Render" next to it. It’s the first button from the "Render" pane. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">Observations: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#080808">1. Failed with error "cuda binary kernal for this graphics card compute capability 6.0 not found" error after clicking on render button </span><span style="color:#404F21"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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