Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.5 has been released with notable performance improvements and lower memory usage for Intel Arc GPUs with XMX support and Intel CPUs with AMX-FP16. Benchmarks on an Intel Arc Pro B70 (Battlemage) show significant speed-ups compared to the previous version. Desktop CPU performance on Arrow Lake Refresh saw no change. The library is widely used by Blender and other rendering applications for high-quality denoising in ray-traced workflows.
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