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Maxon's Redshift GPU renderer offers AI-based denoising options — including NVIDIA's OptiX and Intel's Open Image Denoise (OIDN) — that use deep learning to remove noise from 3D renders, allowing artists to use fewer render samples and get cleaner results faster. As of Redshift 2025.2 (December 2024), OIDN 2.3 became the default denoiser, with GPU-accelerated support across NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple Silicon hardware.

Details

OptiX and OIDN are described in Maxon's official documentation as denoisers that 'use deep learning algorithms that have been trained with tens of thousands of images.' They analyze a partially rendered image and produce a cleaned version without requiring additional render passes. Redshift also supports a traditional non-AI denoiser (Altus). The AI denoisers are available to all Redshift users across supported host applications including Cinema 4D, Houdini, Maya, Blender, and 3ds Max. GPU-accelerated denoising across all major hardware platforms was standardized in Redshift 2025.2, released December 2024.

Products affected

Redshift

Sources & Evidence

News Article

Maxon releases Redshift 2025.2

CG Channel·Dec 2024

https://www.cgchannel.com/2024/12/maxon-releases-redshift-2025-2/

News Article

Maxon ships Redshift 3.5.12

CG Channel·Dec 2022

https://www.cgchannel.com/2022/12/maxon-ships-redshift-3-5-12/

Company Disclosure

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Denoising – Redshift Knowledge Base

Maxon·Jan 2024

https://help.maxon.net/r3d/katana/en-us/Content/html/Denoising.html

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Trace Foundation. (2026). Maxon: Maxon's Redshift GPU renderer offers AI-based denoising options — including NVIDIA's OptiX and Intel's Open Image Denoise (OIDN) — that use deep learning to remove noise from 3D renders, allowing artists to use fewer render samples and get cleaner results faster. As of Redshift 2025.2 (December 2024), OIDN 2.3 became the default denoiser, with GPU-accelerated support across NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple Silicon hardware (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/2afa329d-f0c5-4e75-8ca2-718a18e16a8b. Accessed September 7, 2026.

Stable link: https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/2afa329d-f0c5-4e75-8ca2-718a18e16a8b
Data as of: April 22, 2026
Last verified: April 22, 2026

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Other practices by Maxon

Creative GenMaxon announced Maxon Digital Twin, an upcoming standalone application previewed at CES 2026 that converts CAD or 3D product models into photorealistic marketing assets and automatically matches lighting, perspective, and reflections to a user-chosen background. The application is currently in development with no release date announced.Creative GenMaxon announced a partnership with Tencent Cloud to integrate Tencent's HY 3D AI engine into Cinema 4D, enabling artists to generate base 3D and UV models from text prompts or reference images. The integration, unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2026, is planned for late 2026 and will be optional for Cinema 4D users.ProductivityMaxon offers an AI-powered search feature in Cinema 4D's Asset Browser, introduced in version 2025.3, that lets users find assets by meaning rather than exact keywords. The feature runs entirely on the user's local machine and can be disabled in preferences.

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