How do I switch from Eevee to cycles?

To use a different engine option, click the Render properties button and from the Render Engine drop-down menu at the top of the panel select Eevee, Workbench or Cycles. The 3D View will immediately update appropriately. Repeat to set a different engine.

What is the best render engine for Blender?

Price and Blender IntegrationRender EnginePriceIntegrationMaxwell$650Unofficial Add-onMitsubaFreeUnofficial Add-onOctane$460Separate Blender BuildV-Ray$350Separate Blender Build2 •

Does cycle use GPU?

Cycles has two GPU rendering modes: CUDA, which is the preferred method for Nvidia graphics cards; and OpenCL, which supports rendering on AMD graphics cards.

Does blender use RT cores?

We’re taking a look at Blender’s latest 2.81 alpha build and see NVIDIA’s OptiX render engine in action, leveraging the power of the RT cores to accelerate ray traced workloads. The results are impressive.

What does OptiX mean?

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What is Blender OptiX?

NVIDIA OptiX is a domain-specific API designed for accelerating ray tracing. It provides a complete package with programmable ray generation, intersection and shading while using RT Cores on NVIDIA RTX GPUs for accelerating Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) traversal and ray/triangle intersection testing.