Nvidia Studio Driver Blender
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Nvidia studio driver blender. Performance beyond supporting the latest features and functionality of the newest applications nvidia studio drivers continue to offer the best performance and reliability for current applications as well. With the 2 81 release blender s built in cycles renderer brings rtx hardware acceleration by adding experimental support of nvidia optix. Nvidia s latest rtx studio driver speeds up blender s cycles renderer by up to 4x. Nvidia s geforce rtx graphics cards may have ushered in ray tracing support on games but real time ray tracing is also coming in useful on professional applications for content creators such as animators that need to construct complex scenes with realistic 3d characters.
The latest nvidia studio driver also adds support for optix 7 a powerful ray tracing api that is being implemented by leading 3d renderers including the blender cycles 2 81 beta. Hardware adds support for geforce rtx 2080 super rtx 2070 super and rtx 2060 super gpus adds support for g sync compatible monitors. The new features are there thanks to modifications in blender and not to the release of a new driver. The very first version 419 67 optimized blender cycles adobe photoshop cc adobe premier pro cc and cinema 4d with some nice improvements in performance.
However it took 3 minutes and 55 seconds on the nv studio driver. New nvidia studio driver arrives for v ray gpu next and blender cycles by stanley tack on november 18 2019 featured stories drivers nvidia studio drivers soon two of the world s most popular 3d renderers v ray and blender cycles will be released with support for rtx accelerated ray tracing enabling artists to get their work done in record time. If you use the free open source blender 3d animation software you ll also get a boost nvidia. Those like adobe premiere pro blender autodesk arnold and a host of other applications are all working in partnership with nvidia to get the most out of your system through the studio program.
Blender the free and open source 3d creation suite is also releasing a new rtx accelerated renderer this week. However imagine if this was a multiple hour render it will add up to minutes saved. It seems nvidia has changed it to nvidia studio driver now. In blender man it took 3 minutes and 57 seconds to render on the geforce game ready driver.
As you can see though it s been around for a while and specifically exists to optimize creative applications. None of those things were done by the nvidia studio driver support for non rtx cards it s in place because of a modification of blender the same goes with nvlink the studio driver has nothing to do with that and you can use the gaming driver.