The OptiX kernels are compiled for target "compute_sm_52", which is only available on second
generation Maxwell GPUs, so disable support for older ones.
This patch changes the discovery of pre-compiled kernels, to look for any PTX, even if
it does not match the current architecture version exactly. It works because the driver can
JIT-compile PTX generated for architectures less than or equal to the current one.
This e.g. makes it possible to render on a new GPU architecture even if no pre-compiled
binary kernel was distributed for it as part of the Blender installation.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8332
Performance is not great currently due to the API not seeming to support
efficient denoising of multiple tiles at the same time. So in many cases
only one or a few threads will actually be denoising at the same time.
In renders with many samples this is not a big problem, but for faster
renders it's a signficant overhead.
We should try to optimize this still, possibly by batching denoising of
a bigger neighborhood of multiple tiles at once.
This patch adds support for the curve primitive from OptiX to Cycles. It's currently hidden
behind a debug option, since there can be some slight rendering differences still (because no
backface culling is performed and something seems off with endcaps). The curve primitive
was added with the OptiX 7.1 SDK and requires a r450 driver or newer, so this also updates
the codebase to be able to build with the new SDK.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8223
Denoising devices do not need to load the full feature set of kernels, so only activate the denoising
feature for them (so that it is possible to use features that are supported by the render devices, but
not the denoising devices).
Apply the workaround only for known problematic drivers. The latest pro driver
appears to work correctly, hopefully the regular driver will as well once it
is updated to the same OpenCL driver version (3075.13).
Compared to Optix denoise, this is usually slower since there is no GPU
acceleration. Some optimizations may still be possible, in avoid copies
to the GPU and/or denoising less often.
The main thing is that this adds viewport denoising support for computers
without an NVIDIA GPU (as long as the CPU supports SSE 4.1, which is nearly
all of them).
Ref T76259
Enabling render and viewport denoising is now both done from the render
properties. View layers still can individually be enabled/disabled for
denoising and have their own denoising parameters.
Note that the denoising engine also affects how denoising data passes are
output even if no denoising happens on the render itself, to make the passes
compatible with the engine.
This includes internal refactoring for how denoising parameters are passed
along, trying to avoid code duplication and unclear naming.
Ref T76259
This keeps render results compatible for combined CPU + GPU rendering.
Peformance and quality primitives is quite different than before. There
are now two options:
* Rounded Ribbon: render hair as flat ribbon with (fake) rounded normals, for
fast rendering. Hair curves are subdivided with a fixed number of user
specified subdivisions.
This gives relatively good results, especially when used with the Principled
Hair BSDF and hair viewed from a typical distance. There are artifacts when
viewed closed up, though this was also the case with all previous primitives
(but different ones).
* 3D Curve: render hair as 3D curve, for accurate results when viewing hair
close up. This automatically subdivides the curve until it is smooth.
This gives higher quality than any of the previous primitives, but does come
at a performance cost and is somewhat slower than our previous Thick curves.
The main problem here is performance. For CPU and OpenCL rendering performance
seems usually quite close or better for similar quality results.
However for CUDA and Optix, performance of 3D curve intersection is problematic,
with e.g. 1.45x longer render time in Koro (though there is no equivalent quality
and rounded ribbons seem fine for that scene). Any help or ideas to optimize this
are welcome.
Ref T73778
Depends on D8012
Maniphest Tasks: T73778
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8013
No significant performance improvement is expected, but it means we have a
single thread pool throughout Blender. And it should make adding more
parallellization in the future easier.
After previous refactoring commits this is basically a drop-in replacement.
One difference is that the task pool had a mechanism for scheduling tasks to
the front of the queue to minimize memory usage. TBB has a smarter algorithm
to balance depth-first and breadth-first scheduling of tasks and we assume that
removes the need to manually provide hints to the scheduler.
Fixes T77533
This patch makes the infamous "Cancel" error in the viewport a thing of the past. Instead it
now shows a more useful error message and streamlines the error handling process in CUDA.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8008
With this patch Cycles recognizing when a logical OptiX and CUDA device represent the same
physical GPU and attempts to eliminate unnecessary tile copies for viewport rendering if that
is the case for all active devices. In addition, denoising is now no longer performed on the first
available OptiX device only, but instead it will try to match CUDA and OptiX
rendering/denoising devices exactly to maximize utilization.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7975
This change modifies the multi-device implementation to support memory distribution
across devices, to reduce the overall memory footprint of large scenes and allow scenes to
fit entirely into combined GPU memory that previously had to fall back to host memory.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7426
The input data to the OptiX denoiser was clamped to 0..10000 as required, but it could easily
exceed that range with a high number of samples (since the data contains the overall sum). To
fix that, divide by the number of samples first and multiply it back in after the denoiser ran.
There should be no user visible change from this, except that tile size
now affects performance. The goal here is to simplify bake denoising in
D3099, letting it reuse more denoising tiles and pass code.
A lot of code is now shared with regular rendering, with the two main
differences being that we read some render result passes from the bake API
when starting to render a tile, and call the bake kernel instead of the
path trace kernel.
With this kind of design where Cycles asks for tiles from the bake API,
it should eventually be easier to reduce memory usage, show tiles as
they are baked, or bake multiple passes at once, though there's still
quite some work needed for that.
Reviewers: #cycles
Subscribers: monio, wmatyjewicz, lukasstockner97, michaelknubben
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3108
CMake: `WITH_CYCLES_DEVICE_OPTIX` did not respect `WITH_CYCLES_CUDA_BINARIES` causing the optix kernel to be always build at build time.
Code: `device_optix.cpp` did not count on the optix kernel not existing in the default location.
For this to work, one should have before starting blender
1) working nvcc environment
2) Optix SDK installed and the OPTIX_ROOT_DIR environment variable pointing to it which is not set by default
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7400
Reviewed By: Brecht
This works similarly to the CYCLES_OPENCL_TEST
environment variable to allow testing on unsupported
hardware.
Note: like the OPENCL test override, this is
for *testing* only and bug reports on unsupported
hardware will *not* be accepted at this point in
time.
The numbers here can probably be tweaked to be better, but it's hard to
predict and this should at least avoid excessive memory swapping.
Fixes T57064.
Tested with AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100, where it brings performance back to 2.80
level, and combined with recent changes is about 2-15% faster than 2.80 in
our benchmark scenes.
This somehow appears to specifically address the issue where adding more shader
nodes leads to slower runtime. I found no additional speedup by applying this
to change to 2.80 or removing the new shader node code.
Ref T71479
Patch by Jeroen Bakker.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6252
Back in 2.79 you could either use the debug panel or an
environment variable to override using OpenCL for unsupported
hardware. Which was rather useful for developers when testing
on NVidia just to be sure the CL kernels at-least build properly.
This broke in rB949ab753bb2
This diff restores testing though the CYCLES_OPENCL_TEST
environment variable.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7202
Reviewers: brecht
