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V-Ray for 3ds Max

The V-Ray GPU render engine now supports AMD cards again via AMD's HIP framework - and they're actually faster than NVIDIA in some scenes.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

Check out the new features in the 3ds Max renderer, including native parallax interiors, quick caustics, and relighting 3D Gaussian Splats.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

Check out the new AI Material Generator and image enhancer in this major update to Chaos's production renderer.

Thursday, August 7th, 2025

Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

Real-time visualization software gets improvements to GPU ray tracing, new V-Ray Scene Exporter and support for Intel Arc GPUs.

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Sizeable update to the production renderer adds MaterialX support, new Enscape bridge, and updates to V-Ray GPU and Chaos Scatter.

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

Chaos's versatile object scattering tool is coming to the Maya edition of the renderer. See a demo here.

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

Cinema 4D renderer gets new texture randomisation options, light instancing, native support for Apple M1 processors.

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021

Update adds support for masks in the V-Ray Frame Buffer, better caustics and translucent materials.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

New PLE edition of the renderer can be used for free indefinitely, unlike the existing trial version.

Thursday, April 16th, 2020

New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Check out all the new features of the upcoming release, plus a demo of volume rendering on the GPU.

Friday, May 4th, 2018