[Bf-committers] End of CUDA support for older cards and 32 bit

[Knapp]

So 2.80 will not support the 580?

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Brecht Van Lommel <
brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Cycles will soon stop supporting GPU rendering on NVIDIA graphics cards
> with compute capability 2.0 and 2.1. This includes the NVIDIA GTX 480 and
> 580, see here for a full list:
> https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus
>
> We have postponed this as long as practical, but now have to switch to CUDA
> 9 to support new graphics card generations. Unfortunately this new CUDA
> version also dropped support for older graphics cards.
>
> CUDA rendering will also no longer be available in 32 bit builds, due to
> parts of the new CUDA toolkit only working on 64 bit.
>
> For Blender 2.79a nothing will change yet, but afterwards the code,
> buildbot and further releases will be updated. Blender's viewport and
> Cycles CPU rendering will continue to work.
>
> Thanks,
> Brecht.
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