The new driver is now available for download here - select 'Studio Driver (SD)' in the 'Download Type' drop-down menu. As such, the RTX speed boost will be particularly welcome for folks using GeForce RTX GPUs - available in Studio versions from quite a few manufacturers - which are significantly cheaper than NVIDIA's fancier Quadro RTX GPUs. 'With NVIDIA RTX, core ray-tracing operations are now hardware accelerated by the GPU, making this the fastest version of Cycles yet,' said Blender's lead architect, Brecht Van Lommel.īlender and Cycles are free, open-source software often used by low-budget users and producers. Laptop: Performance testing conducted by NVIDIA in Dec 2021 with Windows laptops equipped with Intel Core i9-12800HK with iGPU, 16GB RAM. OptiX has only used slower CUDA technology up until now, but since the RTX cards are specifically designed for ray-tracing, they deliver a significant boost. With the new driver, the Blender Cycles renderer will provide real-time rendering and boost performance by four times compared to using a CPU alone.Ĭycles uses NVIDIA's OptiX ray-tracing renderer to deliver more realistic effects like subsurface scattering and motion blur. For reference, during some tests Blender Cycles. If you use the free, open-source Blender 3D animation software, you'll also get a boost, NVIDIA announced. Studio Driver is optimized for production software (CAD/CAM/DCC), while Game Ready Driver is otimized for games. NVIDIA's latest Studio RTX driver isn't just speeding up commercial production renderers like V-Ray.

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