Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support

Blender 4.1 is officially out today as the newest version of this wildly popular, open-source and cross-platform 3D modeling software...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.1-Released

[mirmirmir]

I love amd but, while Nvidia, intel and apple provide denoising support, amd provides... Basic support on their customer hardware??

[TNZfr]

RDNA3 support ... great !
But mesa support or proprietary drivers ?

[dlq84]

I love amd but, while Nvidia, intel and apple provide denoising support, amd provides... Basic support on their customer hardware??

According to https://www.openimagedenoise.org/ it should work on AMD. Not sure if Blender has to do anything extra or if they just forgot to mention AMD.

[oleid]

RDNA3 support ... great !
But mesa support or proprietary druvers ?

What proprietary drivers?

[Grinness]

RDNA3 support ... great !
But mesa support or proprietary druvers ?

ROCM for Cycles with HIP on GPU

Mesa for Eevee (opengl/vulkan)

[Laughing1]

ROCM for Cycles with HIP on GPU

Mesa for Eevee (opengl/vulkan)

Link to Eevee?

[tenchrio]

Link to Eevee?

Here is the link to the docs on Eevee (uses OpenGL). Ships with Blender.

Then there is Eevee-next (uses Vulkan) which you can try out by running the dev/daily builds of Blender.
Status of which can be found here. It is still a bit of a work in progress but they are aiming for a Blender 4.2 release.

[tenchrio]

I love amd but, while Nvidia, intel and apple provide denoising support, amd provides... Basic support on their customer hardware??

Was curious why (since it worked in daily builds before with HIP devices) and found this related issue.
Seems like it comes down to OIDN itself (which is owned by intel), when an AMD APU with older drivers is present it was loading in HIP drivers even when using an Nvidia GPU resulting in a crash (so AMD themselves had little to do with it).

OIDN support for HIP GPUs might be added with Blender 4.1.1 (so about 4 weeks after the current release).

[Panix]

RDNA3 support ... great !
But mesa support or proprietary druvers ?

For AMD RDNA3 APU?!? What about DESKTOP GPUS?

Looking forward to this - my guess is that AMD RDNA 3 gpus suck once again.... But, yeah, I hope it's soon - I think they're barely good enough at video editing - so I'm just waiting to see how RDNA 3 gpus do with most recent Blender versions - hey, HIP-RT is open source now so it should be fully implemented and optimized for these benchmarks, right?