2025-01-07 Render & Cycles Meeting
Attendees
- Brecht Van Lommel (Blender)
- Sergey Sharybin (Blender)
- Nikita Sirgienko (Intel)
- Sahar A. Kashi (AMD)
- Xavier Hallade
Notes
- For Blender 4.4
- HIP update to 6.2 is on-track. Question about what version to target for for gfx12. There is a bit of version difference between Linux/Windows
- Linux 6.3
- Windows 6.2
- Will sync-up with Sahar in the task tracking the update: #131976 - Cycles: Update ROCm/HIP to 6.2.4 for Blender 4.4 - blender - Blender Projects
- Embree update
- New Embree fixes threading-related bug leading to crash
- Wait for the update from Nikita
- OIDN update
- Need to update the libraries tracking: #128577 - Library changes for Blender 4.4 - blender - Blender Projects
- DPC++ will need to be updated. Details coming
- Pre-compiled kernel compression is coming!
- HIP-RT will be updated as well
- Point cloud fixes
- Bytecodes do not need to be compiled
- HIP update to 6.2 is on-track. Question about what version to target for for gfx12. There is a bit of version difference between Linux/Windows
- Other
- Brecht cleanup Cycles for clangd: Using clangd
- Make it somehow more clear for people who does benchmarks that LTS is not the best to depict performance on the new released hardware.
- Add a warning in the benchmark launcher?
- Add a warning in the Blender LTS itself when a device from the future is detected?