Nvidia Optix Blender
Cudnn is no longer required to use the optix denoiser and all required files are.
Nvidia optix blender. Madminstrel march 25 2019 8 37am 2. With the 2 81 release blender s built in cycles renderer brings rtx hardware acceleration by adding experimental support of nvidia optix. Blender the free and open source 3d creation suite is also releasing a new rtx accelerated renderer this week. If you use the free open source blender 3d animation software you ll also get a boost nvidia.
There is optix. Adding hardware accelerated ray tracing to cycles. 3 likes difficulty building blender in ubuntu 18 04. The closest comment i ve found so far was this.
Blender nvidia s optix. After downloading this build you must read instructions in the link below in order. Requires nvidia r435 80 driver or newer. Blender 2 90 releases with improved cpu rendering optix denoising support for older nvidia gpus posted on august 31 2020 2 20 pm by rob williams right on schedule the blender foundation has released the latest major version of its popular open source 3d design toolkit 2 90.
Pav march 25 2019 7 44am 1. Has there already been a discussion whether or not blender should or can integrate nvidia s optix renderer. Tested with nvidia 750ti viewport denoiser and render with optix works between 10 to 20 seconds more faster depending on the scene i try. Given the blender 2 90 performance changes over blender 2 8x as outlined in the earlier article here is a fresh look at how the nvidia gpu performance compares for this large range of graphics processors.
Windows 7 and higher 64 bit accept download linux accept download. Following that i kept on testing more and older nvidia gpus with the cuda and optix back end targets to now have an 18 way comparison from maxwell to turing with the new blender 2 90. Optix requires graphics cards with compute capability 5 0 and higher. Optix support is still experimental and does not yet support all features see below for details.
To make sure your gpu is supported see the list of nvidia graphics cards optix works best on rtx graphics cards with hardware ray tracing support e g. Nvidia s latest studio rtx driver isn t just speeding up commercial production renderers like v ray. This is a build of blender 2 81 with optix support for cycles on geforce rtx gpus. Release notes 91kb pdf.
You may need a beta driver for certain operating systems.