Blender 2.81 Released With NVIDIA RTX Optix Back-End, Intel Open Image Denoise Support

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Phoronix: Blender 2.81 Released With NVIDIA RTX Optix Back-End, Intel Open Image Denoise Support

Blender 2.81 is now available as the latest minor yet significant update to this open-source 3D modeling software following the major Blender 2.80 release earlier this year...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Blender-2.81-Released

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Mistake in link:

than the CUDA/OpenCL back-ends, Intel Open Image Denoise support,

[ermo]

The fact that RTX + CUDA is a headline feature is a huge loss for everyone but NVidia. Hats off to NVidia marketing; this was a scoop.

I still wish e.g. SYCL or one of the single-source SYCL-related initiatives that target OpenMP for the CPU path and OpenCL for the GPU path could be incorporated in Blender. Initially, just include it alongside OpenCL and see where it goes from there.