Blender w/ CUDA for Ubuntu 16.04

Quick commands #

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
$ sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-modprobe

This installs the latest stable Nvidia drivers and necessary tools. After a restart (might not be necessary) start blender and go into File -> User Preferences -> System and under Compute Device choose CUDA.

Reference #

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/7485/enabling-gpu-rendering-for-cycles https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/31045/cuda-rendering-on-linux-mint-or-ubuntu-variants/31111#31111

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