Understand Blender’s hardware requirements and pick the perfect 3XS Systems graphics workstation or render server for your project

What makes the best system for Blender?

As Blender is a suite of applications there is no one ideal system configuration. Although every company will make different use of Blender most systems will fall into three scenarios.

The most common scenario is an all-purpose workstation that will be used to create and render a scene from start to finish, in which case you need to carefully balance the two most important components, the CPU and one or two GPUs in order to get good responsive content creation and rapid rendering.

Moving up from this is an organisation that requires faster rendering, such as a dedicated system in the corner of the office or a workstation that will left on overnight rendering. In this scenario a workstation with a single CPU and up to four GPUs will provide much faster rendering while still retaining the ability to create models and animations.

The final scenario are companies working on a very large projects or that need a rapid turnaround. In this case it makes sense to separate the content creation systems from the rendering systems. This means using workstations like in the first scenario with a good balance between CPU and GPU(s), plus one or more dedicated servers with up to eight GPUs that render offline while the workstation users continue working. These render servers can be hosted locally or provisioned in the cloud with NVIDIA vPGU.