Today’s release of Octane X for macOS Big Sur is also available for all current OctaneRender Studio and Enterprise subscribers. The full Octane X feature list can be viewed here.

Octane X RNDR server / Mac Pro as a render node: Leveraging 20Gb/s dual interconnect – the Mac Pro approaches InfiniBand interconnect speeds – and Octane X on Mac Pro will support up to 400 GPUs over network rendering.

Near perfect linear scaling of rendering speed with multiple GPU configurations, including eGPUs connected over Thunderbolt 3.

Completely rewritten mesh geometry engine optimized for AMD GPUs, supporting hundreds of millions of unique primitives per mesh instance, at high performance.

With Octane, we have seen our users create remarkable films, design new products, publish everyday renders that have transformed the social media landscape, and now, build careers creating blockchain digital art through the RNDR cloud service, which for the first time, will be offered for free to all artists using Octane X on pro Mac systems.” Octane X for macOS Metal Features He added: “For the past decade, OctaneRender has been democratizing visual effects, leveraging the power of GPU rendering to enable anyone with a creative vision to realize their imagination. We are thrilled to usher in the next generation of creativity with Octane X now available for free for millions of artists across the Apple ecosystem. Octane X on macOS enables artists to harness the power of GPU accelerated cinematic path-tracing across millions of Mac systems for the first time.” “Apple has always had a special place in our hearts as the company that made personal and mobile computing widely accessible.

The release also means Mac users gain single-click access to all the tools needed to package and render their artwork on the RNDR network enabling Mac artists to simply and effortlessly publish their NFT CryptoArt on the blockchain.

Users of MacBook Pro, iMac Pro and Mac Pro will have access to a full year of Octane X Enterprise, including RNDR, the industry’s first distributed blockchain GPU rendering platform.Īll other Macs including models powered by the Apple M1 chip, and the latest AMD and Intel integrated graphics on macOS Big Sur 11.1 and later, will have 1 year access to Octane X Prime, including access to all Octane X DCC integrations. The new Octane X app, available for free in the Mac App Store, brings all Octane X Enterprise standalone features to every Mac running macOS Big Sur, alongside two new exclusive offers of Octane X Prime and Enterprise subscriptions, each free for one year, with access to the full suite of Octane X plug-in integrations across the industry’s leading 3D content creation tools including Cinema4D, SketchUp, Maya, Houdini, Blender, Modo, Nuke, Unreal Engine and Unity.

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