For creating a basic blender. Graphic card is mandatory?
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No! It can speed up the render process, especially using Cycles render engine.
But with the new EEVEE render engine, you can also create amazing illustrations.
With a good CPU you can do a lot. And if you have a GPU also, then Blender can automatically divide render task to both of them.
And for studying Blender you can use a simple machine. But it can be slow sometimes and consumes a lot of memory.
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Thanks!
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Note that it is not really necessary as @FedPete already said. But if you have an integrated graphic card it may still use it. I see Windows processes using GPU when I configure Blender to use mine, and it somehow speeds the process.
But note that most probably I would work better if I had twice or trice the memory (currently using 8 GB) and a bit more of free space on disk, since files and textures start consuming that space really fast.
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