Supported Graphics Cards documentation is still confusing #65962
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"My video card doesn't work in Cycles but the web site says it should be supported." - FAQ
Something like:
"The Cycles renderer has additional requirements if you want to use GPU accelerated rendering and they are described here: "
And honestly that Wikipedia page is awful., It uses different fields to describe every generation/series of cards, sometimes listing GCN Gen, sometimes listing OpenCL capability, sometimes neither, and sending users to that page is hardly going to result in a good experience. However, I can see there's no hard cutoff date between generations, etc. so I can understand this was the only easy way out :)
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This issue was referenced by blender/documentation@5169
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Done :)
It is rather complicated however, AMD is a bit complicated and some cards within the same generation have different GCN generations.
I changed the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Core_Next#Iterations which should be a bit simpler to understand.
I also cleaned up the GPU rendering page, see rBM5169.