Blender Now Natively Supports Windows 11 on Arm, Boasting Huge Performance Gains

2025-08-13
Blender Now Natively Supports Windows 11 on Arm, Boasting Huge Performance Gains

Thanks to a collaboration between Microsoft, Linaro, and Qualcomm, the Blender 3D creation suite now natively supports Windows 11 on Arm. Blender 4.5 LTS leverages a Vulkan graphics backend and the Adreno GPU in Snapdragon X chips, resulting in drastically improved viewport playback (up to 6x faster) and rendering performance (up to 4.5x faster). Future plans include hardware-accelerated ray tracing for Cycles on Snapdragon X by 2026.

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