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

[Ray Molenkamp]

not for gpu rendering with cycles, however given it's an opengl 4.2 card the ui and eeve should run happily with it.

--Ray


On 1/24/2018 11:32 AM, Knapp wrote:
> 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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