Arnold on GPU : Will the plugin for maya on mac support the GPU acceleration ?

[Stephen.Blair]

No.

Arnold GPU is based on NVIDIA Optix 6, which is available for Windows and Linux only.

[eric_stoiqa]

''OptiX 5.0 for Mac now available for download

https://developer.nvidia.com/designworks/optix/download ''

[Stephen.Blair]

We use Optix 6

Optix 5.0.1 (the last mac version) is from March 2018

[Anonymous]

Do you know if this will be possible in the future?

[Stephen.Blair]

@Loekie Loek @Thomas Hanhart

If NVidia drivers and NVidia Optix become available on macOS, then Arnold GPU will be available on macOS. That's up to NVidia and Apple.

[Anonymous]

Could you please answer the question of Loekie Loek.

[Anonymous]

let's hope Arnold team will dare to create Metal version of arnold GPU.