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See how Arnold has evolved.

Since 1998, Arnold has brought top-quality updates to help you render faster and with more flexibility. We continue to focus on bringing you powerful, yet easy-to use rendering experiences so that you can deliver beautiful and predictable results. 
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Arnold 7
29 Mar. 2023

Arnold 7.2.1

Distance Shader
Global Light Sampling
USD Improvements
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29 Mar. 2023

Arnold 7.2

Native Support for Apple CPUs
Color Management in Arnold for 3ds Max 2024
USD Improvements
Improved Workflow for Texture Files
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16 Nov. 2022

Arnold 7.1.4

Native Support for Apple CPUs
USD Improvements
Improved Workflow for Texture Files
Improved Log Window in Arnold for Maya
Import and Export of Imager Presets in Arnold for Maya and Arnold for Cinema4D
Improved Light Manipulators in Arnold for Katana 
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03 Aug. 2022

Arnold 7.1.3

Improved Volume Rendering
USD Improvements
Arnold 3ds Max Scene Converter
Other
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30 Mar. 2022

Arnold 7.1

OptiX 7 Denoiser
Triplanar shader
USD enhancements
Interactivity improvements
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18 Oct. 2021

Arnold 7

Boosted performance
Enhanced post-processing nodes
Technical improvements
GPU scalability
USD enhancements
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Arnold 6
04 Feb. 2021

Arnold 6.2

GPU Improvements
Enhanced USD Support
OpenColorIO v2 integration
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28 Oct. 2020

Arnold 6.1

GPU Improvements
USD Enhancements
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10 Dec. 2019

Arnold 6

Dielectric microfacet multiple scattering
Faster creased subdivisions
Improved Oren-Nayer Diffuse Roughness Mapping
More accurate albedo AOVs
Improved rough thin-wall transmission in standard_surface
Progressive rendering improvements
Physial Sky Shader Improvements
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Arnold 5
31 Jul. 2019

Arnold 5.4

Support for Bifrost
GPU support for OSL
GPU support for Open VDB
GPU support for Volume displacement and volume sample shaders
Clip Geo shader
Faster convergence rate with adaptive sampling
Less noise in progressive sampling 
Alembic support improvements
enhanced MaterialX support
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18 Mar. 2019

Arnold 5.3

GPU rendering (BETA)
Improved adaptive sampling
Improved skydome sampling
Visible lights
Enhanced usability for Standard Surface
10 Aug. 2018

Arnold 5.2

Cell Noise shader
Sheen function in the Standard Surface shader
Texture baking supported with a native render-to-texture
Improved sampling of spherical lights
Faster adaptive subdivision
Built-in Volume ID and Depth AOVs
Cryptomatte
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09 Apr. 2018

Arnold 5.1

Adaptive sampling
Denoiser (noice)
Denoiser (OptiX)
Alembic support
Toon Shader
12 Apr. 2017

Arnold 5

Simpler C++ API
Better samplers
Added shaders
OSL Support
Light Path Expressions (LPEs)
Improved color management
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