Blender 4.0 Released and Tested: New Features, More Demanding

Blender 4.0 released on November 14, 2023. We tested it on a collection of GPUs to see how performance has changed and found most graphics cards were slightly slower with the latest updates.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/blender-4-released-and-tested

Created 2y | Nov 16, 2023, 3:10:03 PM


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