Blender 5.1 Open-Source 3D Graphics Software Released

Blender 5.1 Open-Source 3D Graphics Software Released with Many New Features

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Marcus Nestor
Apr 3, 2026

Highlights of Blender 5.1 include hardware ray-tracing enablement for AMD GPUs by default through HIP RT, improved GPU rendering performance by up to 10 percent on various benchmark scenes, and a new F-Curve modifier called “Gaussian Smooth” that allows non-destructive smoothing of F-Curves.

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Marcus Nestor

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