Another key difference between the two product lines is the way they are delivered and supported. Also, professional cards' memory usage is optimized for using multiple application windows, while in gaming this is not relevant. Typically a 3D model in a game contains a low number of polygons with textures applied to them, while polygon count is high in CAD modeling, and the quality of the stationary image of the wireframe or the shaded model is more important than navigation speed. 'Gamer' cards (such as Nvidia GeForce and AMD/ATI Radeon) are optimized for 3D games, where speed is more important than image quality/accuracy. While the hardware setup is very similar for both cards, there are main differences in their firmware and driver. Graphics card manufacturers typically have different product lines targeted for 'gamers' and 'professional content creation users'. AMD Radeon driver: Adrenalin 21.4.1 Release Date 2021.04.20.Nvidia GeForce driver for Windows 10: NVIDIA Studio Driver 462.59 Release date: 2021.5.11.Certified AMD FirePro and Radeon Pro driver: 21.Q1.2 Release date 2021.04.27.Certified Nvidia Quadro Windows 10 driver: 462.59 Release date 2021.5.11.Such tools should only be used as the last resort for troubleshooting. In rare cases where vendor's uninstall operation is not possible, there are several tools that can help, like AMD's AMD Clean Uninstall Utility, third party tools like Driver Cleaner, Driver Fusion or gaming community's popular DDU Display Driver Uninstaller. Both Nvidia and AMD provide 'Clean-install' options with their driver installers. 'Clean-install' means removing all previous driver files before installing a new driver. If you experience display issues with the drivers listed below, please 'Clean-install' the driver again.

It may happen that remnants of a previous installation interfere with the current driver installation. Graphics cards only perform properly if they have a hardware vendor-supplied driver (not system built-in driver) installed correctly. Please note that at the moment, only Nvidia GPUs are supported for using Redshift on Windows.

Redshift is introduced from Archicad 25 Update 2.

Nvidia Quadro FX and Quadro (Fermi architecture) series.

We do not recommend the following graphics card legacy families: OpenGL 4.5 compatible graphics card with dedicated memory of 2GB or more is recommended to fully utilize hardware acceleration capabilities.

Archicad 24 system requirements