In addition, RTX ray tracing, also available on GPUs using Nvidia’s older Turing architecture, has been improved, with “most production scenes” using RTX ray tracing rendering “1-5% faster”. OctaneRender 2021.1 improves performance of the renderer on Nvidia’s current Ampere GPUs, including the GeForce RTX 30 Series gaming cards and RTX A workstation cards.ĭeformation motion blur and blur on animated instances is now roughly “1.5x faster in production scenes”. It is also the first version of OctaneRender to be available for Windows and Linux only, support for macOS now having been moved entirely to the newer Octane X edition.įaster on Ampere and Turing GPUs, but old Kepler cards are no longer supported The release improves performance on current Nvidia Ampere GPUs, adds a new Boolean clipping material, improves volumetric rendering, and refactors the software’s handling of AOVs. Otoy has released OctaneRender 2021.1 XB1: the first public beta of the latest version of the GPU renderer.

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