Blender 3.0 Benchmarks - Performance Across 19 Different NVIDIA GPUs

Before getting to the main comparison, here are some Blender 2.93 vs. 3.0 benchmarks with an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080.

For the CPU-based rendering performance, Blender 3.0 does offer some speed-ups compared to the prior release. Great!

Blender 3.0 is particularly exciting with Cycles X when it comes to the NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX speed-ups. There are some big improvements to enjoy with Blender 3.0 for NVIDIA render performance, so let's see how the performance looks across a wide selection of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.