Blender

Processor

Modeling, Animation & Simulation

3D modeling, animation and simulation are primarily single-threaded tasks, therefore a processor with a high clockspeed is recommended.

Rendering

Blender supports CPU + GPU hybrid rendering, therefore the more CPU cores and graphics cards, the better.

Graphics

Blender utilizes both CPU and GPU for rendering, therefore graphics cards with high memory and CUDA cores is recommended.

Storage

We recommend a solid-state drive (SSD) for the operating system and software.

In addition, we recommend a 4TB or larger hard drive for storage of the pre-rendered assets or the rendered export files if storing these files locally. Hard drives work well for rendering since it is generally not read or write intensive.

Memory

In general, 4GB of RAM per CPU core is recommended. For example, if you select a single 12-core processor, 32GB will suffice for basic tasks or 64GB for more demanding workloads.