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What is the GPU engine and why should we use it?
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In order to choose which graphics cards you want to use, you will find a gear icon next to Engine selector in Render Options, when the GPU engine is selected. The plugins have a similar button on their equivalent menu.
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Customize your GPU preferences here (capture from Maxwell Studio)
This button will open the Maxwell GPU Preferences panel.
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This panel can also be opened from the Maxwell installation folder by running the “mxgpuprefs” application.
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GPU Preferences panel
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Please, note that the memory is not shared between the different cards, so the graphics card with a smaller amount of memory will be the bottleneck for the render. The whole scene has to fit into each used graphics card's memory. |
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Materials | Environment | Extensions | Channels | Channels | Camera | ||||||||||||
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Referenced MXM |  | Physical Sky | | Maxwell Scatter | | Alpha | | Deep |  | Stereo lenses | | ||||||
Normal layer mode | | Constant Dome | | Maxwell Sea | | Z-buffer | | UV | | Simulens | | ||||||
Additive layer mode | | Image Based | | Maxwell Grass | | Shadow | | Custom Alpha | | Camera Response | | ||||||
Layer opacity and masks | | Rendering | Maxwell Hair | | Material ID | | Reflectance | | Tone mapping | | |||||||
Transmittance | | Interactive render (FIRE) | | Asset Reference | | Object ID | | Camera | Miscellany | ||||||||
AGS | | Production render | | Subdivision modifier | | Triangle ID | | Thin Lens | | Render Booleans | | ||||||
Sub-surface scattering | | Network Rendering | | Maxwell Cloner | | Motion Vector | | Pinhole | | Motion Blur * | | ||||||
Dispersion | | Multi-GPU | | Maxwell Volumetrics | | Roughness | | Ortho | | Region Render | | ||||||
Procedural textures | | Denoiser | | Maxwell Particles | | Fresnel | | Fisheye | | Hidden to Camera | | ||||||
Displacement (pretess mode) | | Multilight ** | | Maxwell Mesher | | Normals | | Spherical | | Hidden to Refl/Refr | | ||||||
Coatings | | Maxwell Cloud | | Position | | Cylindrical | | Hidden to GI | | ||||||||
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* Motion blur works for all transformations but not for deformation. ** Only Intensity Multilight mode is supported, not Color Multilight. |
Which card should I buy to use with the GPU engine?
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