Choosing a GPU for Blender means balancing render speed, enough memory for your scenes, and the price you can actually buy it for. We’ve expanded the GPU catalogue and redesigned its benchmark table, hardware profiles and comparison pages to make those tradeoffs easier to explore.

The tools are free to use in your browser, without uploading a Blender file or creating an account.

Find GPUs for Your Budget and Scenes

Search for a GPU or narrow the benchmark table by NVIDIA or AMD, minimum VRAM, budget in USD, and minimum Cycles score. Choose your current GPU as a reference to see how other cards compare with its recorded rendering performance.

Sort by fastest rendering, best value, lowest price, or VRAM followed by value. Advanced sorting lets you combine up to three rules. You can also focus on cards with benchmarks, cards with a usable price, or your own shortlist.

Searching includes hardware without enough benchmark results, so you can still find its specifications. Missing scores and prices stay clearly marked.

Explore Hardware and Memory Versions

The expanded catalogue covers more NVIDIA and AMD hardware, with clearer distinctions between desktop cards, laptop GPUs and workstation models. Browse the catalogue by performance tier, VRAM, generation or hardware class.

GPU profiles bring together specifications, Cycles results, memory guidance, rendering support, prices and related alternatives. Where a model has different memory or hardware versions, you can open the relevant version and compare its details.

Specification explanations help you interpret memory bandwidth, rendering features and power ratings. GPU power draw and suggested system PSU capacity are shown separately where source data is available.

Compare Up to Four GPUs

The updated comparison pages show specifications, benchmarks and eligible prices side by side. Highlights identify the fastest card in Cycles, the most VRAM, the lowest published power rating, the cheapest option and the best performance per dollar when the necessary data is available.

Benchmark charts make the recorded differences easier to see, including individual benchmark scenes where results are available. Related comparisons and profile links help you explore nearby alternatives or a possible upgrade.

Save up to four GPUs to your shortlist and share a link that preserves your selection, filters, sorting, buying preferences and personal prices.

Check Prices Against Your Buying Preferences

Price panels now show the checked offers behind the displayed price, including the seller, shipper, delivered total, return terms, seller feedback and observation date where available. You can set your minimum seller feedback percentage and rating count, choose a feedback period, or restrict offers to cards sold or shipped by Amazon.

Your preferences carry between the benchmark table, GPU profiles and comparisons. You can also enter your own price in USD to compare a local quote or another retailer’s offer; include delivery for a fair comparison.

Retail prices cover a limited sample of Amazon US offers for new or assumed-new cards, with shipping to New York included and tax excluded. The offer panel identifies assumed-new condition and missing evidence. Prices retain their actual check dates, and expired observations leave current price and value rankings.

Understand the Benchmark Results

Scores include their recorded Blender version and submission count, with explanations of shared results across hardware variants. The catalogue uses the latest available Cycles results for each GPU, including older Blender versions, so comparisons across versions are approximate.

Classroom frame times are estimates derived from benchmark throughput for the stated scene settings. Cycles scores measure rendering throughput; they do not measure EEVEE or viewport performance, or guarantee the same speedup in your own project. Choose enough VRAM for your scene before comparing speed or value.

The updated Blender GPU buying guide brings these considerations together, from renderer support and memory capacity to workstation power and cooling.

Easier to Use Across Devices

Searchable GPU selectors, paginated results and compact mobile layouts make the larger catalogue easier to navigate. In the benchmark table, GPU names stay visible as you scroll horizontally. Clear loading and retry states help you keep track of your selection while results update.

The Blender Render Time Calculator also uses the updated GPU selection and benchmark data, so you can continue from researching hardware to planning an animation’s render time and cost.

Explore the GPU catalogue to find a card, compare an upgrade, or check how your current GPU stacks up.