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		dogma1138 on April 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cycles X For GPU rendering anything but NVIDIA wasn’t even a second class citizen on Cycles for a long long time. Cycles X will likely be OptiX only and then OptiX first for quite a while until a true cross vendor cross platform stack appears.

zlsa on April 23, 2021 [–]

In the linked article, benchmarks are shown for CUDA as well. Of course that's also nVidia-only like OptiX.

And antecdotally, OptiX is around 1.5-3x faster than CUDA with Cycles rendering.

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