Blender 2.90 comes with many improvements including the likes of:
- Intel's open-source Embree is now used for ray-tracing on CPUs, offering better performance.
- Intel Open Image Denoise is now used more widely.
- NVIDIA OptiX support is now available on all NVIDIA GPUs from Maxwell and newer where as previously it just worked on RTX GPUs.
- NVIDIA NVLink support for CUDA and OptiX.
- Cloth filter work.
- Redesigned automasking.
- Better posh brush.
- Many other changes throughout.
More details on Blender 2.90 via Blender.org . New Blender benchmarks coming up shortly.