Short Blender 3.0 Review Video

csaa

I saw some discussion here surrounding Blender 3 Alpha. This video reivews the upcoming release. The part (02:31) about Cycles and AMD/Apple/Linux systems are worth noting. Until I saw this video, I ddn't grasp what the Asset Browser someone was referring me to; I'm quite excited about it now!

Chapters: 00:00

Intro 00:31

Cycles X 01:42

Warning 02:31

Asset browser 03:19

Performance upgrades 05:06

Squarespace 05:53

Send Nodes! 06:59

Cute cat in a raincoat 08:12

No more Terminator problems

brainmuffin

I've been experimenting with both the alpha and beta builds on my Linux box. Cycles is about 20% slower, but the results are better.

TheMysteryIsThePoint

brainmuffin said:

I've been experimenting with both the alpha and beta builds on my Linux box. Cycles is about 20% slower, but the results are better.

That doesn't sound right. Cycles-X is vastly faster.

nonesuch00

Unfortunately, I'm using the new but still now so antiquated AMD GCN Generation 5 Vega 8 integrated into a Ryzen 7 5700G APU but maybe next year I can upgrate my APU to a APU that supports RDNA2 so I can use Cycles-X.

brainmuffin

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

brainmuffin said:

I've been experimenting with both the alpha and beta builds on my Linux box. Cycles is about 20% slower, but the results are better.

That doesn't sound right. Cycles-X is vastly faster.

I did a few test animation renders for alpha and beta. When it was much quicker, the shadows were really horrible. Changing a few settings made for slightly better shadows than I have with 2.9x, but was slower.

I do have an Nvidia 960 GTX card, but an AMD Threadripper 2920x CPU, so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Running Linux Mint.

This is my latest update: