Solutions · 3D rendering & VFX
GPU servers for 3D rendering and VFX.
Blender Cycles, Octane, Redshift or V-Ray on up to four GeForce cards or eight RTX PRO 6000, at a flat monthly price.
- 4× RTX 5090best fit
- 128 GBGPU memory
- $1,316per month
- From $1,076cheapest pick
What 3D rendering needs from a GPU.
- 1
RT cores and CUDA cores
GPU renderers use hardware ray tracing on NVIDIA RTX cards (OptiX). Every card in our GeForce and RTX PRO range has RT cores.
- 2
VRAM for scenes
Heavy scenes with large textures need memory: 24 GB (RTX 4090), 32 GB (RTX 5090), 48 GB (L40S) or 96 GB (RTX PRO 6000).
- 3
Several cards per server
Most GPU renderers use every card in the machine for a frame or split frames across cards.
Our picks for 3D rendering.
The first is the best fit; the other two trade speed, memory or ecosystem for price.
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Best fit
4× NVIDIA RTX 5090
128 GB GDDR7 · 1.8 TB/s per GPU
- Interconnect
- PCIe Gen5 x16
- vCPU · RAM
- 64 · 256 GB
- NVMe
- 4 TB
$1,316/mo
$1,924 -
Alternative
4× NVIDIA RTX 4090
96 GB GDDR6X · 1 TB/s per GPU
- Interconnect
- PCIe Gen4 x16
- vCPU · RAM
- 48 · 256 GB
- NVMe
- 4 TB
$1,076/mo
$1,548 -
Alternative
4× NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000
384 GB GDDR7 ECC · 1.6 TB/s per GPU
- Interconnect
- PCIe Gen5 x16
- vCPU · RAM
- 96 · 720 GB
- NVMe
- 7.68 TB
$3,836/mo
$5,520
Tools people use, and what we recommend.
- Blender CyclesOptiX and CUDA backends; runs headless from the command line.
- OTOY OctaneSpectral GPU renderer with network rendering.
- Maxon RedshiftBiased GPU renderer for DCC tools.
- Chaos V-Ray GPUGPU mode of V-Ray for production rendering.
Tips
- Render from the command line (for example blender -b scene.blend -a) inside tmux so jobs survive disconnections.
- Sync projects with rsync and keep textures on local NVMe.
- Match the NVIDIA driver to what your renderer supports before a big job.
Good to know
Check that your render engine and its licence allow remote or server use; licensing of commercial renderers is the customer’s responsibility.
Related guides
- Your first hour on a new GPU serverYour server comes with its address and root SSH access; the software stack is yours to choose. This first hour covers login, hardware checks, updates and a sudo user.
- NVIDIA drivers, CUDA and Fabric Manager on UbuntuInstall the driver from NVIDIA’s repository, add the CUDA toolkit only if you compile code, and bring up NVSwitch on 8-GPU HGX servers. Commands assume Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 LTS.
- Local NVMe, RAID 0 and moving data in and outThe NVMe drives in your server are fast local storage for datasets, checkpoints and model caches. Set them up once, and keep anything you cannot lose in a second place.
3D rendering & VFX questions.
Other workloads: LLM training, Fine-tuning, Inference & serving, Image & video, Research & HPC.
Does Blender use all the cards in a server?
Yes, Cycles can render with every enabled GPU in the machine.
Which card for large scenes?
The RTX PRO 6000 with 96 GB of ECC memory, up to eight per server.
Do you provide render-engine licences?
No. Bring your own licences and check that their terms allow use on a remote server.
Start with 4× RTX 5090.
NVIDIA RTX 5090, 128 GB of GPU memory, for $1,316 a month.