Blender 4.1 brings faster Linux CPU performance, GPU rendering enhancements with Cycles, and much more. Some of the highlights include:
- Open Image Denoise GPU acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs, Intel GPUs, and Apple Silicon.
- Linux CPU rendering performance is about 5% faster than with prior releases.
- AMD GPU rendering support for RDNA3 APUs.
- The viewport compositor now supports Vector Blur, Defocus, Cryptomatte, and Keying Screen nodes.
- Improvements to geometry nodes.
- The Blender Hydra support now handles rendering particle system hair, improved support for shader conversion to MaterialX, and exporting of large meshes is now parallelized.
- Blender 4.1 on Wayland now supports Input Method Editors.
Blender 4.1 can be downloaded from Blender.org . See the release notes for more details on the Blender 4.1 changes. Blender 4.1 benchmarks coming soon on Phoronix.