Intel's OIDn 2.1 Released With Better GPU Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's OIDn 2.1 Released With Better GPU Support

Released back in May was Intel's open-source Open Image Denoise 2.0 that brought GPU support via SYCL for this denoising library intended for use with ray-tracing applications. Following that big release as part of the broader effort to make Intel's oneAPI suite more supportive on GPUs/accelerators, OIDn 2.1 released on Wednesday with fixes and performance improvements to the GPU support...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Open-Image-Denoise-2.1

[RealNC]

It runs just fine on CPU, to be honest. It only takes a couple seconds to denoise a 1080p image that took 30 minutes to render.

[aviallon]

It runs just fine on CPU, to be honest. It only takes a couple seconds to denoise a 1080p image that took 30 minutes to render.

I think the GPU acceleration is there for real-time rendering.