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
- Programmable GPU-accelerated Ray Tracing Pipeline
- Convenient single-ray shader programming model using C++
- Use with CUDA
- Optimized for current and future generations of NVIDIA GPU architectures
- Ray Tracing acceleration using RT Cores
- AI Accelerated rendering using Tensor Cores
- Free for commercial use
- ARM support
- Advanced ray tracing features such as motion blur, nested instancing, curve and sphere primitives, and mega-geometry
- OptiX AI-Accelerated Denoising
- Shader Execution Reordering (SER)
| Operating System | Windows, Linux, ARM (see release notes for specific version) |
|---|---|
| Dependencies |
NVIDIA GeForce, NVIDIA RTX / Quadro, and Data Center / Tesla products with Turing and newer generation GPUs. Recent NVIDIA Display Driver |
| Development Environment | C/C++ Compiler and Recent CUDA Toolkit |
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Release Notes (462KB, PDF)
NOTE: Requires NVIDIA R590 driver or newer. You may need a Beta Driver for certain operating systems.
Release Highlights NVIDIA® OptiX™ 9.1.0 (December 2025)
- Module creation can now be cancelled midway
- New API enables customizable application-side compile caching
- See the Release Notes for more
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.