Blender 4.3 Released With AMD HIP-RT Ray-Tracing On Linux, Experimental Vulkan Backend
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Blender 4.3)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.3-Released
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Blender 4.3 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading open-source 3D modeling software.
Most exciting for Linux users with Blender 4.3 is finally boasting AMD HIP-RT support for ray-tracing on Radeon graphics cards as well as having [1]an experimental Vulkan option for rendering the Blender UI .
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Some of the key highlights for Blender 4.3 consist of:
- Blender 4.3 finally supports HIP-RT on Linux for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing with AMD graphics cards. Blender is now using the open-source HIP-RT libraries on both Windows and Linux.
- Improvements to the Cycles Volume Scattering node.
- Eevee now has feature parity with Cycles thanks to the latest light and shadow linking work.
- There is an experimental Vulkan back-end for rendering the Blender user interface on Windows and Linux. This Vulkan back-end is still considered an early stage feature and will be improved upon moving forward as an alternative to the OpenGL-based UI.
- Geometry Nodes now support working with Grase Pencil data.
- Experimental Windows on Arm support.
- glTF import and export enhancements.
- Various performance optimizations.
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More details on the Blender 4.3 changes via the [4]release notes . Blender 4.3 can be downloaded at [5]Blender.org . New CPU/GPU [6]Blender benchmarks soon.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.3-Beta
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=blender_43_linux1_lrg
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=blender_43_linux2_lrg
[4] https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.3/
[5] https://www.blender.org/download/
[6] https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/blender
Most exciting for Linux users with Blender 4.3 is finally boasting AMD HIP-RT support for ray-tracing on Radeon graphics cards as well as having [1]an experimental Vulkan option for rendering the Blender UI .
[2]
Some of the key highlights for Blender 4.3 consist of:
- Blender 4.3 finally supports HIP-RT on Linux for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing with AMD graphics cards. Blender is now using the open-source HIP-RT libraries on both Windows and Linux.
- Improvements to the Cycles Volume Scattering node.
- Eevee now has feature parity with Cycles thanks to the latest light and shadow linking work.
- There is an experimental Vulkan back-end for rendering the Blender user interface on Windows and Linux. This Vulkan back-end is still considered an early stage feature and will be improved upon moving forward as an alternative to the OpenGL-based UI.
- Geometry Nodes now support working with Grase Pencil data.
- Experimental Windows on Arm support.
- glTF import and export enhancements.
- Various performance optimizations.
[3]
More details on the Blender 4.3 changes via the [4]release notes . Blender 4.3 can be downloaded at [5]Blender.org . New CPU/GPU [6]Blender benchmarks soon.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.3-Beta
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=blender_43_linux1_lrg
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2024&image=blender_43_linux2_lrg
[4] https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.3/
[5] https://www.blender.org/download/
[6] https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/blender
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