From the course: 3ds Max: Rendering with Arnold

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Preview materials with GPU rendering

Preview materials with GPU rendering - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Preview materials with GPU rendering

GPU rendering is in public beta. Meaning that if you have an NVIDIA graphics card then you can render using that graphics processing unit, and save some time, especially for material previews. You may find that if you try to render a complex scene using the GPU, that it is actually slower because it takes a very long time to get started. But for a simple scene like this donut, we can render it with the GPU and get much faster interactivity than we would with the CPU Let's go into the render setup dialog. And in the system tab, in the device rollout, we can choose the render device. And it's set to CPU by default. We can switch that over to GPU, and it indicates that it's in beta currently. Before you do any GPU rendering, you want to pre populate the GPU cache. What that does is run a bunch of tests on your video card and also store a bunch of files on your hard drive, so that GPU rendering will start more quickly.…

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