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RenderMan XPU: A Hybrid CPU+GPU Renderer for Interactive and Final-Frame Rendering Per Christensen, Julian Fong, Charlie Kilpatrick, Francisco Gonzalez, Srinath Ravichandran, Akshay Shah, Ethan Jaszewski, Stephen Friedman, James Burgess, Trina M. Roy, Tom Nettleship, Meghana Seshadri, Susan Salituro June 2025 RenderMan XPU is a rewrite of Pixar's RenderMan renderer, designed to run on both CPUs and GPUs. Like its predecessor, it is a progressive path tracer, suitable for both interactive previews and high-quality final-frame rendering, but it utilizes modern hardware and software techniques to run significantly faster. Most ... more Paper (PDF) Additional materials: [video.mp4] Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of High-Performance Graphics) |