Nvidia Optix Release Notes

Cycles now has experimental support for rendering with hardware accelerated raytracing on nvidia rtx graphics cards.

Nvidia optix release notes. Windows 7 and higher 64bit 165mb exe linux 312mb sh release notes 374kb pdf release notes nvidia optix 4 0 beta april 2016 the optix 4 0 beta is a complete re implementation of the optix api. Cudnn is no longer required to use the optix denoiser and all required files are shipped with the driver. Optix is now available on all nvidia gpus that support it which is maxwell or higher geforce 700 800 900 1000 series. For future release notes we will keep it limited to individual driver updates.

Release notes 91kb pdf note. The 6 5 0 release of the optix sdk introduces many performance improvements and extended functionality. Please always read the optix sdk release notes before setting up a development environment. Optix 7 applications are written using the cuda programming apis.

Release 426 00 or later. Nvidia gpu rendering on macos is no longer supported. These driver update release notes represent bug fixes and backward compatible feature updates in addition to the notes on api version changes included with the optix sdk. You may need a beta driver for certain operating systems.

To use enable optix in preferences system cycles render devices. Requires nvidia r435 80 driver or newer. Release notes for changes to the optix api sdk will still be included in the sdk. Currently still missing are baking branched path tracing ambient occlusion and bevel shader nodes and combined cpu gpu rendering.

When enabled in the cycles device preferences gpus connected with an nvlink bridge will share memory to support rendering bigger scenes. Below are downloads for the latest optix sdk 4 0 beta release. There are two to choose from. The cuda runtime api and the cuda driver api.

A stable version of optix sdk 3 9 1 that supports pascal gpus is also available. From the nvidia web site download and install the following display driver or newer. Most but not all features of the cuda backend are supported yet. For optix debugging and profiling 435 95 or later is required.

New in nvidia nsight visual studio edition 2019 3.