Monday, April 29, 2019

First Commercial Renderer with NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing Delivers Up To 19x Speedups

Real-time ray tracing enables artists to receive instantaneous feedback on every aspect of their designs — from geometry to shading to lighting. Now, NVIDIA and Isotropix are making this capability available through Clarisse, graphics software used by visual effects and animation studios worldwide.

Isotropix Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP2, released today, is the latest update of the high-end 3D content and production renderer. It’s the first generally available commercial renderer to offer NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing powered by NVIDIA RTX technology. With GPU-accelerated power in Clarisse, studios can design production scenes made of hundreds of billions of polygons in real time, at speeds up to 19x faster than on a CPU.