Dumb question -- what is Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630; is it Nvidia or AMD or neither?

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UPDATE: here is a picture of my User Preferences, System tab: there is only None available under Cyclers Compute Device, so I guess that means I don’t have a graphics card available? Thar seems weird, because my earlier post (below) seems to heavily imply that I do. Is there a configuration problem with Blender?

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Earlier post:

What is my GPU, or what drivers do I need? The lectures don’t seem relevant to me because I don’t think I have AMD or Nvidia, but I do have a graphics card, can someone help? Hopefully this info will be enough, but let me know if you need other information about my system!

On Ubuntu 18.04 operating system, running on a Dell Inspiron: …

greg@Fenn1991-Dell-Ins-3268:~$ lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell HD Graphics 630
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 127
Memory at de000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
(rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell HD Graphics 630
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 127
Memory at de000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

#2

Hi Gregory,

The Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 is going to be the basic graphics chip on the motherboard of the unit.

On my laptop, for example, I have an Intel graphics chip but I also have an NVidia dedicated graphics chip too. The Intel graphic chip will be far more basic in comparison and I believe relies on the installed ram on the main board, rather than having i’s own dedicated ram.

What is the model number of your unit/laptop?

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Ahh I see… I don’t know anything about computer hardware! I wouldn’t even know how to install a new graphics card!

My desktop computer is a Dell Inspiron 3268

Thanks :))

EDIT: more info if you need it --?

greg@Fenn1991-Dell-Ins-3268:~$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 158
Model name: Intel® Core™ i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz
Stepping: 9
CPU MHz: 1201.477
CPU max MHz: 3500.0000
CPU min MHz: 800.0000
BogoMIPS: 6000.00
Virtualisation: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 6144K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3

#4

No expert myself :slight_smile:

Here’s a link to the spec on the Dell site, second one from the left I believe is yours;

So, there isn’t a dedicated graphics card, only the Intel one which has uses the systems ram. This will be why you don’t have anything appear in the drop down in Blender.

Hope this helps :slight_smile:

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#5

I was afraid of that!! Thanks though :slight_smile:

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#6

You’re welcome, and sorry :frowning:

For comparison purposes only, if you take a look at this page for the 5000 series;

Under the Configurations, the model on the far right… scroll down and you can see it has the Radeon graphics card, it mentions the 4Gb, so in that specific case, that is dedicated ram.

Not sure if it still happens, but there used to be some which were a bit in between, they would have their own dedicated and use some of the ram from the system. Always seemed a bit cheeky as they would then advertise them as say, 4Gb, but perhaps only 2Gb of that would be dedicated, and the rest shared with the system.

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