
"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".


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.

OpenGL 4.5 compatible graphics card with dedicated memory of 2GB or more is recommended to fully utilize hardware acceleration capabilities.
