NVIDIA OptiX™ Downloads
OptiX is free to use within any application, including commercial and educational applications. To download, you must be a member of the NVIDIA Developer Program.
Key Features and Components
- Shader Execution Reordering (SER)
- Programmable GPU-accelerated Ray Tracing Pipeline
- Single-ray shader programming model using C++
- Optimized for current and future generations of NVIDIA GPU architectures
- Transparently scales across multiple GPUs
- Automatically combines GPU memory over NVLink for large scenes
- AI Accelerated rendering using Tensor Cores
- Ray Tracing acceleration using RT Cores
- Free for Commercial-Use
- ARM support
| Operating System | Windows, Linux, ARM (see release notes for specific version) |
|---|---|
| Dependencies |
NVIDIA GeForce, NVIDIA RTX / Quadro, and Data Center / Tesla products with Maxwell and newer generation GPUs. Recent NVIDIA Display Driver |
| Development Environment | C/C++ Compiler and Recent CUDA Toolkit |
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Release Notes (444KB, PDF)
NOTE: Requires NVIDIA R570 driver or newer. You may need a Beta Driver for certain operating systems.
Release Highlights NVIDIA® OptiX™ 9.0.0 (February 2025)
- Clusters a.k.a. Megageometry - API for dramatically accelerating BVH builds of massive dynamic triangle meshes
- Cooperative Vectors - API for executing small AI networks within OptiX shader programs, accelerated by NVIDIA Tensor Cores
- Hardware-accelerated linear curves on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, plus a new, faster software curve intersector called Rocaps
- Denoiser quality improvements
- See the Release
Support:
OptiX support is available on NVIDIA's Developer Zone at: https://developer.nvidia.com/optix-forums
If you have any confidential concerns please send your issues directly to OptiX-Help@NVIDIA.com and we will do our best to address them. E-mailed questions found not to be confidential will often be redirected to the forum so the community can benefit from the answers.