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kinowyesterday at 10:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

For those that use Blender, in their section about Blender:

> We hope that, in the future, there will be real options other than NVIDIA for GPU-based rendering, as it is an area where competition is nearly non-existent.

And Checking opendata.blender.org, a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU scores 5301.8, while Intel Arc Pro B70 is still at 3824.64.

So there is still a bit more to go before Intel GPUs perform close to NVIDIA's.


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embedding-shapeyesterday at 10:29 PM

Also the first section I jumped to :) To Intel's credit, seems they're slowly improving, the section starts with:

> Over the last year or two, Intel has worked to deliver serious optimizations for and compatibility with Blender GPU rendering on its Arc GPUs. Although NVIDIA has long held an advantage in the application, our last time looking at Intel’s cards indicated ongoing improvements. This round of testing is no different. We found that the Arc Pro B70 provided more than twice the performance of the B50, also beating the R9700 by 9%.

keyletoday at 1:36 AM

This is because Blender is in fact using CUDA?

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