COMPARE KARMA
Compare the features found in Karma XPU, Karma CPU and the legacy Mantra renderer.
Be sure to note that all development going forward will be for Karma.
General Support
Feature
Karma XPU
Karma CPU
Mantra
Production-Ready
CPU
GPU
Load from USD
Load from IFD
Open Image IO
Material & Shaders
Feature
Karma XPU
Karma CPU
Mantra
Material X
VEX | Principled Material
USD Preview
Rounded Edge/Dirt Masks
Toon Shader
VEX Shading
VEX Shading
Texture Baking
Material Overrides
Material Variation LOPS
Material Variation LOPS
Material Stylesheets
CVEX Lens Shader
Karma Physical Lens
CVEX Volume Procedurals
Planned for Future
Andriy Bilichenko
General Features
Feature
Karma XPU
Karma CPU
Mantra
Motion Blur
Depth of Field
Adaptive Sampling
Random Walk Sub Surface Scattering
Volumes
Heightfields
Instancing
Nested Instancing
OpenSubdiv
Displacement Shading
Crowd Support
USDSkel support
USDSkel support
NURBS
Lens Shaders
Absorption and Nested Dielectrics
Pyro Shader for Volumes
HdCoordSystem support for shaders
Uniform Volume Geometry
Automatic Ray Bias
Path Guiding
ACES: Texture Color Space
Denoising [Optix/intel]
Filmic Tonemapper
Arbitrary Output Variables | AOVs
Advanced Stats/Diagnostic AOVs
Deep Images
Cryptomatte
Light Path Expressions | LPEs
Lights
Feature
Karma XPU
Karma CPU
Mantra
Point Light
Dome Light
Portals on Dome Light
Distant Light
Disk Light
Rectangle Light
Sphere Light
Cylinder Light
Geometry Light
Physical Sky
Shape Control: Cone
Shape Control: Focus
Shape Control: Barn Doors
Shape Control: IES Mapping
Light Tree
Light Filters
Light Linking
*
*
Shadow Linking
*
* No Geometry Lights
Andriy Bilichenko
Render
Feature
Karma XPU
Karma CPU
Mantra
Hair & Fur
Curves
Tubes
Tubes, Ribbons, Oriented ribbons
Points
Viewport Render
Render View
Solaris Viewport/Render Gallery
Solaris Viewport/Render Gallery
Interactive Mplay
**
Snapshot Gallery
Render to Disk
HQueue | Distributed
Command Line Render
HUSK
HUSK
Check Pointing
HUSK
** No Click to Render
KARMA FEATURES AVAILABLE IN:
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