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Can blender make use of an integrated GPU and a discrete GPU at the same time to speed up renders? [duplicate]

I was thinking about getting an APU for my next build and was curious if I also get a discrete GPU can blender make use of both kind of like a dual GPU render? Would there be any performance increases ...
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How to improve performance when rendering freestyle lines only?

I have a moderately complex scene that I wish to render in a "line only" style like blueprints. I've enabled freestyle rendering and stuck with the Workbench render engine given that I don't ...
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Is there a way to make blender start rendering the next frame before it is finished the current so the GPU usage is constant?

As you can see from this screenshot GPU usage goes up and down as the current frame is finished rendering and the next frame is prepared. Because the GPU is not needed while the frame is prepared the ...
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Keep Blender open after running script from command line for higher rendering throughput

I am using Blender for on-the-fly data generation for a machine learning task. The data creation process should be fast, and is conditioned on some parameter values given by my model, e.g., an RGB ...
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What's the fastest way to render a scrolling text?

I'm trying to render scrolling text (well, in 2.79, because I'm outdated) I tried rendering ordinary 3D text and it took about 2+ seconds per frame. So I tried rendering the text to an image 1920 x ...
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Performance impact with complex procedural materials vs image textures?

This is a topic that is somewhat important to me. Let's say I create a complex procedural material with several procedural textures. I could either leave the material as-is, or I could bake it onto a ...
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Dual GPU doesn't speed up rendering in Cycles

A few days ago I finished a build, including two Titan XP. The goal was to get faster rendering, letting the gpus work as two seperate cores that render two chunks at the same to nearly double the ...
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How can I speed up my render times in Eevee?

I started learning Blender this past July and I have fallen in love with it. I've felt very accomplished by all that I learned myself, so I decided to start a project related to my job. Since I had 5 ...
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Is it a bad idea to have multiple smoke domains?

I have this scene with 3 smoke domains, each with different properties. Whenever I try to render in cycles, it crashes. I'd like to know if using multiple smoke domains is significantly more demanding ...
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Slow Workflow with RTX 3060

I am quite desperate, because I just bought a new laptop (XMG CORE 17 - E21qzj FHD i7 16GB 1TBSSD RTX3060 W10H) and I tried to adjust all the settings, but it is just so slow. Right now I am trying to ...
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Is it dangerous leaving PC Rendering overnight? [closed]

Not actually a blender issue, I’m rendering in Cycles using Blender and the animation is quite long, I started rendering 13 hours ago and it’s not even at half animation. So, since it’s a job that I ...
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What am I doing wrong? Rendering takes forever [closed]

I am a beginning art student who is trying out Blender for the first time. I made this file for my class, but rendering seems to takes forever. It feels like it should be a rather simple animation, ...
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Trying to finish a blend-file before the 20th for my daughter

So, I've followed all the tutorials that I can find, and as straight forward as it seems, it just ain't. I load the template, I change the text, I set the output file, go to render and it starts, ...
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blender crashed twice during long render, how to detect and remedy reason for crash?

I am brand new to Blender. I'm running Blender 2.8 on Ubuntu 20.04. I've been working through an explosion tutorial. I have a simple-but-glorious explosion using only a single emitter and I've been ...
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Which gives better performance in render/viewport: mask modifier or assinging a transparent material?

I have a character model where a good portion of the skin is covered by clothes. To prevent the skin from clipping through the clothes, I assign a transparent material to the areas that aren't ...
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