Cycles X, 2-7 times FASTER? Blender 3.0 😱

You knew I would record a video testing new Cycles X, right? :) Here we go, it's faster and you can confirm it too. I used Blender 3.0.0 experimental build.

My GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080TI

Timecodes:
00:00 - Start
00:29 - Download Cycles X and Blender 3.0
00:49 - The Dusty Cellar test
04:43 - The Bottles - glass shader pathtracing test
07:01 - The Lamp test
08:10 - The Sci-fi Helmet test
10:42 - The Nebulae test
12:32 - The Procedural Shader test (wip Procedural Texturing course)
15:36 - wip footage from the teaser of our new course

Procedural Texturing course for Blender - coming soon!

Music: Two Moons by Bobby Richards

[arloc_official]

i just got a new graphics card and then this... i feel like i got teleported like 100 years into the future

[GlebAlexandrov]

Timecodes:
00:00​ - Start
00:29​ - Download Cycles X and Blender 3.0
00:49​ - The Dusty Cellar test
04:43​ - The Bottles - glass shader pathtracing test
07:01​ - The Lamp test
08:10​ - The Sci-fi Helmet test
10:42​ - The Nebulae test
12:32​ - The Procedural Shader test (wip Procedural Texturing course)
15:36​ - wip footage from the teaser of our new course

[cryochamberlabel]

Cycles X is slashing every thing I throw at it in half (rendertimes), very impressive work indeed.

[Farozurshad]

Wait, there's a procedural texturing course coming!? So hyped.

[bradleyanimation]

I have to add a note: Pablo from blender today mentioned multiple times that Cycle-X was planned to be released in 3.1. Not 3.0. In his Q&A section, people asked whether Dev would postpone the release of 3.0 so that cycle-X can be included in 3.0 instead of 3.1, Pablo said they haven't decided yet and hoped users didn't put stress on Dev & their working schedule, etc. More importantly, he said, even if it were to be released in 3.1, it would be just 4 month later than 3.0 release. There was really no need to rush.
I think I need to add this note because the title would be really misleading if people think Cycle-X will be in 3.0 while it's, at least currently, planned to be in 3.1. People may feel angry and fight back for the fact that Cycle-X doesn't present in 3.0 eventually.

[samgoldwater]

The short diversion about your father was a beautiful story :)

[eenleerlingleerling]

These improvements just keep being impressive. How much better can it get?

[alejmc]

This is mindblowing, the EEVEE v Cycles X comparison got me off guard. Now that both the EEVEE and Cycles teams and under one single team maybe they will be able to piggyback some optimization ideas because for preview purposes (while moving the camera and look dev) responsiveness trumps image quality (to reasonable middle ground).
Ditto collaborating to the BF, I spend a somewhat reasonable amount on random patreons and decided to just add Bronze donations to Blender just because of how mindboggling their advances are and for free, I don’t even use Blender at all except for exploring and learning sometimes yet I can’t help but appreciate their work. Background: I come from 3dsmax days, the days when Brazil, Cebas FinalRender and VRay were all the rage with 2hrs long single frame renders.
Enjoyed the rundown, subbed.

[FloTasser]

Even my 1060 6GB got an immense speed boost. Like you said, seems like it is across the board a general speed improvement for all GPUs that ran Cycles before.

[Robinbobin]

That derek barker hack though... amazing. Can't wait to try it, thanks so much for pointing to him

[oby]

one major thing I so want the new Cycles X to have is real Caustics. Luxcore is just clunky

[gooorylin]

i also have noticed that.Especially - with version - 3.1.0 beta.Is much faster - render time, than it used to be in version 2.93

[resu]

Работа просто супер! Понравился конверт с изображением Семиона Полоцкого🙂

[godzoookie]

Amazing! I tried the classroom scene in 2.93 at 500 samples (2070 super and 2x 1080ti) 1m 50s. Then with just 2070 super in cycles-X at 500 samples, 1m 5 sec.
That's 41% faster, with two less GPUs!!
I don't know how it will scale when they get multiple GPUs working, but I can't wait to find out. Hopefully next CPU upgrade I can spend less then $600 on mobo because I don't need an E-ATX with three PCI x 16 slots.

[moldysann]

Perfect timing that I was able to build my new PC with the 3080 GPU.. Amazing as always. Super thankful for your truly inspiring work !

[egretfx]

Your voice is so soothing and educating!!! You are a Treasure in the community Gleb:)

[smoofles]

Easy comparison of result would be 1st layer render A, 2nd layer render B, and invert B and make it 50% transparent. Would be cool to see if there are any parts that are bigly different.

Looking forward to the new course!

[arthurbuccioli]

loved the content as well as the side stories haha

[michalpecz]

1:48 sry but it's either 30 percent faster, or 130 percent of original speed.

[SeanyKrabs]

Progressive rendering? My dear GPU, I wish you the best of luck.