Sapphire uses GPU acceleration to deliver faster rendering and playback in supported hosts. This guide outlines the GPU hardware and driver requirements across operating systems, along with fallback options if no supported GPU is available.
Windows & Linux
NVIDIA GPUs
Supported (Sapphire 2025.5 and later):
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Hopper
Blackwell
Many other CUDA-capable GPUs (such as GeForce cards) may deliver excellent performance, but are not internally tested.
Driver requirements:
CUDA 12.0 or newer
Windows: driver version 527.41 or later
Linux: driver version 525.60.13 or later
Note: Older NVIDIA GPUs (Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing) are only supported in earlier Sapphire releases (2022 and prior) with CUDA 10.x.
AMD GPUs (Windows only)
Supported (Sapphire 2025.5 and later via HIP):
Radeon Pro W6000 Series
Radeon Pro W7000 Series
Radeon Pro W9000 Series
Integrated graphics in AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO Series CPUs
macOS
Full support for all Apple Silicon integrated GPUs, provided the host OS version is compatible:
macOS 10.15 Catalina and newer
Certain AI/ML features require macOS 12.0 Monterey or newer
GPU acceleration is powered by Apple’s Metal API
NVIDIA and AMD GPUs are not supported on modern macOS
Fallback Option
If no supported GPU is detected, Sapphire automatically falls back to CPU rendering. This is slower but delivers identical visual output with no loss of functionality.