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HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs
AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance.
New RDNA 4 support includes compressed BVH8 and triangle packets, intersectable instances, and oriented bounding boxes. With the updated HIP-RT code for Blender 5.0 there are the new Navi 4 (RDNA4) features though it does up the requirements to using HIP SDK 6.4+ on Windows or ROCm 7.0+ on Linux. Though they mention with the updated Intel libraries only Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and newer will be supported with losing out on oneAPI GPU rendering for older Linux releases.
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