In general, Arnold is going to work on pretty much any 64-bit system where Houdini, Maya, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, or Katana works.

Multiple GPUs will improve performance, and NVLink can be used to connect multiple GPUs of the same architecture to share memory. RTX graphics cards are almost twice as fast compared to NVIDIA’s Pascal series graphics cards.Īrnold GPU works on NVIDIA GPUs of the Ampere, Turing, Volta, Pascal, and Maxwell architectures. The result is noise-free images with very high fidelity. NVIDIA Geforce series graphics cards, the RTX3060, RTX3070, RTX3080 and RTX3090 models demonstrate their power in Arnold 6 in particular by combining RTX-accelerated rendering and GPU-accelerated AI denoising for fast, interactive rendering. We can recommend the following graphics cards for optimal rendering results: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 with 8GB DDR6 VRAM, NVIDIA Quadro RTX5000 with Cuda cores, NVIDIA Quadro RTX6000 with 24GB VRAM.

Take advantage of the new technology to improve your rendering performance. Arnold is optimised for NVIDIA RTX series graphics cards with CUDA cores.

Noice is not supported with Arnold GPU renders (because the variance filter is not supported on Arnold GPU)įrom version 6 onwards you are able to switch between CPU and GPU rendering.

Custom shaders, cameras, filters, BSDFs are not supported.

Custom procedurals, drivers, color managers are supported.

Light linking is not supported on volumes.

Filename attribute tags are supported.

Volume displacement is supported, with some limitations currently (see below).

OpenVDB volumes are supported, with some limitations currently (see below).

OSL is supported, with some limitations currently (see below).

standard_surface, standard_hair, and standard_volume are supported, with some limitations (see the table below).

Accordingly, to achieve equivalent noise the AA sample count will need to be increased in GPU renders.

With the same settings, GPU renders will currently be noisier than CPU renders since GPU renders are “non-splitting” (i.e.Arnold GPU supports complex shading networks, SSS, hair, atmospherics, instancing, and procedurals.

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