Cuda vs Optix

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Cycles with NVIDIA OptiX

Blender 2.81 supports Nvidia OptiX. It uses the RT cores in the RTX20 seris cards, to accelerate raytraced rendering. With Blender 2.81 it is supported and can accelerate rendering with cycles. Since rhino-cycles currently gets a code rebase, I wonder if this is a rebase to blender 2.80 or 2.81 and if it is to the latest 2.81, will OptiX be available in rhino-cycles as well? Here are some links regarding OptiX: Blender Dev Blog techgage.com phoronix.com

RTX 3000 Series and RhinoCycles

Installed a 3080 yesterday. As far as I know, the latest RH7 Beta is supposed to bring Ampere/RTX3000 support. Cuda rendering works fine but when I activate Optix, Rhino crashes when I start raytraced display mode. When I switched to raytraced the first time, Rhino went unresponsive. I guess some compiling was ongoing? I was impatient and killed the process, so maybe I just broke something? At least that’s the case when killing Rhino while OpenCL kernels are being compiled. I would assume that …

RTX 2070 Super not listed in Cycles/Opitx in Rhino 7 WIP

Hello, I’m not to be able to utilize RTX support in Rhino 7 WIP. What could be the reason for my RTX 2070 Super not being listed in Optix tab? Rhino 7.0.20252.11325, Windows 10 Pro (10.0.18363 Build 18363), driver 452.06 (studio). Best