AMD HIP vs. NVIDIA CUDA vs. NVIDIA OptiX On Blender 3.2

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 14 June 2022 at 09:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 3. 28 Comments.
Blender 3.2 AMD HIP vs. NVIDIA OptiX / CUDA Linux Performance
Blender 3.2 AMD HIP vs. NVIDIA OptiX / CUDA Linux Performance

So long story short, even if using the NVIDIA CUDA back-end rather than the optimal NVIDIA OptiX back-end, it really doesn't change the outcome that the NVIDIA Blender performance for now is much faster than what is offered by AMD HIP for Radeon GPU acceleration on Windows and Linux.

Blender 3.2 AMD HIP vs. NVIDIA OptiX / CUDA Linux Performance
Blender 3.2 AMD HIP vs. NVIDIA OptiX / CUDA Linux Performance

For those interested, this is the breakdown of the GPU power consumption and GPU core temperatures as exposed by the respective Linux drivers across the entire duration of all the Blender scenes benchmarked.

Those interested can find more of my Blender CPU and GPU benchmarks along with numbers from the community via this OpenBenchmarking.org test profile page.

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