Blender Discussions

[cekuhnen]

Hi there

I am currently exploring AMD ProRender as an alternative to the NVIDA CUDA accelerated Cycles render engine.

With GPU only the 

[caretaker]

gpu only the?........message terminated

[cekuhnen]

I just read that mid last year some macOS users also have the issue

macOS - Blender crash on with GPU and CPU checked 

trace dump files.zip - Google Drive 

[bsavery]

I think on some of the older macPro there is an issue with SSE CPU instructions not enabled.  But GPU rendering works?

[cekuhnen]

Truth is also that the modern GPUs just run circles around the CPU rendering to openCL including older Xeon CPUs even when being a dual six core cpu.