Maxon has updated Redshift and Cinebench 2024 to take advantage of the latest developments in Apple’s M3 family of chips. Thanks to these  updated chips, artists can see greater performance when generating photorealistic imagery using Maxon’s Redshift render engine. Maxon’s Cinebench 2024 benchmarking tool, built on Redshift and Maxon’s Cinema 4D, is also now fully optimized for M3 and available as a free download.

Apple’s new GPU architecture features hardware-accelerated raytracing and offers substantial speed increases when rendering with Redshift.

Cinebench 2024.1 is available to download immediately from Maxon.net for anyone to benchmark performance on macOS and Windows hardware.

Optimizations will be available as part of regular Redshift updates for Maxon One and Redshift subscribers in the coming months.

In addition to Redshift, Cinebench and Cinema 4D, Maxon also makes Forger, Red Giant and ZBrush.