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NVIDIA/optix-sdk v9.0.0

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OptiX 9.0

Repository: NVIDIA/optix-sdk

Tag: v9.0.0

Published: 2026-01-13T18:44:05Z

Prerelease: no

Release notes: 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

NOTE: Requires NVIDIA R570 driver or newer.

https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/designworks/optix/secure/9.0.0/optix_release_notes_9.0_01.pdf

Notability

notability 6.0/10

Major SDK version release, substantive but not a flagship model