HMorton posted at 8:34PM Sat, 06 February 2021 - #4409776

I can not get my eevee renders to look this good. I wish you share the secret here. Whihc leads me to the question, does the graphics card matter when it comes to eevee? I heard it is using only cpu for the rendering.

That is incorrect. Eevee is using your OpenGL drivers to render a scene, so it's using strictly the GPU for that. However, your CPU is still being used for the viewport geometry as well as the preparation of each frame being sent to the render engine. So CPU is still useful, even with Eevee. Even if you do not have a GPU card in your computer, you may still be able to use Eevee, because some modern CPU have an onboard GPU as well, which can often support OpenGL drivers up to a certain capacity. The reason some people can not use Blender 2.8x and up is due to the fact they may not have a GPU in their motherboard that supports the necessary OpenGL version (I think 4.2 is the minimum?) But CPU is not being used at all in the renders aside from sending information to the GPU.

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