Other new features shown in the KeyShot 9.0 teaser include render denoising. Render denoising, RealCloth and a 3D model library That expands the range of compatible GPUs considerably: anything above a GeForce GTX 980 should work. Updated 6 November 2019: Although Luxion’s original blog post namechecks Nvidia’s new RTX GPUs, the new GPU ray tracing system only requires a Maxwell card with CUDA Compute Capability 5.0 or above. Otherwise, rendering will default to the CPU, as usual. If KeyShot 9.0 detects a compatible Nvidia GPU, a new button will appear in the KeyShot Ribbon, enabling a user to switch to GPU rendering.

Luxion announced the major change in KeyShot 9.0 earler this year: that the formerly CPU-only render engine will support GPU rendering, at least on Nvidia GPUs.

Support for GPU rendering on Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards Luxion has posted a teaser for KeyShot 9.0, the next major update to its rendering and technical animation software, showing off support for GPU rendering, a new ‘RealCloth’ feature, and render denoising. Scroll down for news of the commercial release and 9.2 update.

Keyshot 9.1