Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 19 March 2026 at 12:05 PM EDT. Page 2 of 2. Add A Comment.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: BMW27, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA). 5.0 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: BMW27, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX). 5.0 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Junkshop, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA). 5.0 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Classroom, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA). 5.1 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Fishy Cat, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA). 5.0 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Junkshop, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX). 5.1 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA). 5.1 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Classroom, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX). 5.1 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Fishy Cat, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX). 5.0 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX). 5.1 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA). 5.0 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Version Comparison (Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona, Compute: NVIDIA OptiX). 5.0 was the fastest.

With the NVIDIA CUDA and NVIDIA OptiX back-ends the performance was more muted. In some cases Blender 5.1 was slower than Blender 5.0 at least when testing with this NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card. But in some scenes there were some small speed-ups for the NVIDIA GPU performance.

Overall Blender 5.1 on Linux is running well in my testing this far. I'll have up more Blender benchmarks on CPUs and GPUs soon, which is especially interesting on the AMD Radeon side with HIP-RT ray-tracing now enabled by default.

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Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux