Otoy releases OctaneRender 2025.2
Otoy has released OctaneRender 2025.2, the latest version of the GPU production renderer.
The update improves support for the OpenColorIO color management standard, and adds support for render denoising via OIDN on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and Apple Silicon processors.
Better support for OCIO
OctaneRender 2025.2 improves support for OpenColorIO within the renderer.
The open color management standard is widely used in visual effects production pipelines, and included in the VFX Reference Platform specification.
OctaneRender now supports OCIO configs up to version 2.4, used in the current CY2025 spec, and adds support for archived OCIO configs in .ocioz format.
Support for OIDN render denoising on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and Apple Silicon processors
In addition, the integrated version of Open Image Denoise, Intel’s CPU – and now GPU – render denoising system, has been updated to version 2.3.3, the most recent version.
The update means that OctaneRender now supports OIDN denoising on NVIDIA’s current-gen Blackwell GPUs, including its GeForce RTX 50 Series and RTX PRO Blackwell Series cards.
Octane X, the macOS edition of the software, supports OIDN on Metal devices: in this context, the Apple Silicon processors in current Macs.
Released in parallel with the OctaneRender 2026.1 alpha
OctaneRender 2025.2 is the second production release of the renderer this year, following a more major feature release, OctaneRender 2025.1, in March.
Otoy is also maintaining a separate alpha build, OctaneRender 2026.1, which includes more experimental technologies.
Price and system requirements
OctaneRender is compatible with Windows 10+ and Linux, and requires a CUDA 10-capable NVIDIA GPU.
Octane X is compatible with macOS 14.5+ on Macs with Apple M1 and later processors, and with iPadOS 17.0+ on devices with A12 Bionic and later chips.
The software is rental-only, via Otoy’s Studio+ subscriptions, which cost €23.95/month or €239.88/year, and which include integration plugins for 21 DCC applications, plus a range of third-party software.
Otoy also provides free ‘Prime’ editions of both OctaneRender and Octane X, which are limited to rendering on a single GPU, and which come with a smaller set of DCC integration plugins.
Read a full list of new features in OctaneRender 2025.2 on Otoy’s forum
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