v9.0
Increased processing speed and improved hardware support.
- Optimized CPU- an GPU-based processing.
As compared with the previous major version 8, Neat Image 9 shows the following speed increase:
- CPU-based processing:
Up to 50% faster.
- GPU-based processing:
Up to 10% faster.
- Added support for several new AMD GPUs:
- Radeon RX 6600 / 6600 XT.
- Radeon RX 6700 XT / 6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT.
- Other GPUs based on the gfx1030 / gfx1031 / gfx1032 chips.
- Improved compatibility with the new GPU drivers from AMD.
Added support for the new version of Windows.
- Windows 11.
Higher accuracy and tuning precision.
- New tools to check accuracy and tune noise profiles.
- Improved Sharpening with more precise control.
Easier than ever before.
- Flexible Generic Profiles (fully adjustable, with visual assistance).
- Visually assisted tuning for profiles and filters.
- Illustrated help dialogs for many filter settings and tuning modes.
- Variants now can be used to test different noise profiles too.
Improved user interface.
- Added support for color themes (Preferences > General):
- Normal brightness (light colors).
- Reduced brightness (dark colors).
- Auto-detect brightness (match operating system colors).
- Main tabs are now called "Open Input Image", "Prepare Noise Profile", "Adjust and Preview" and "Save Output Image".
- The "Auto Profile" button changes to "Build Profile" when you select an area manually.
- The selection color in Prepare Noise Profile tab has slightly changed:
the blue color of the selection box now means 'profile was built using this area', not 'area was chosen automatically' as before.
- Undo/Redo operations and history of changes for noise profiles.
- Select/drag modes in viewer (useful for computers with touchpads).
- Alt Mouse wheel in viewer zooms to point even when selection is present.
- Improved support for high DPI displays as well as systems with monitors that have different pixel density.
- Ability to toggle alpha channel in viewer (when present).
- Ability to load and save alpha channel when working with TIFF files.
- Preview performance has been optimized.
- Preview cache size adjustment to optimize for different image sizes (Preferences > Performance).
- Additional visual guidance to adjust the GPU memory allowed to Neat Image (Preferences > Performance).
- Numerous minor GUI improvements.
- Improved detection of running applications that may interfere with installation.
- Improved uninstaller with an option to erase settings and license.
- Improved diagnostic data and error reporting.
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Other changes:
- End-User License Agreement has been updated.
- The 32-bit version is not produced anymore.
v8.6 [Nov 14, 2020]
- Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:.
- GeForce RTX 3070 / 3080 / 3090.
Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 3.0 are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.5 and higher can be utilized by Neat Image 8.6..
- Added support for new AMD GPUs:.
- Radeon RX 5300M / 5500M.
- Radeon RX 5500 / 5500 XT.
- Radeon RX 5600 / 5600 XT.
- Due to changes in AMD drivers, some older Graphics Core Next 1 GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Image 8.6 no longer supports most Radeon HD 7xxx / 8xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti. The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Image 8.6 on Windows is: Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, gfx804, gfx900, gfx901, gfx906, gfx907, gfx1010, gfx1012.
- Several minor bugs have been fixed.
v8.4.1 [Feb 22, 2019]
- Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs: GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti, Titan V, Titan RTX. Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 2.x and below are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Image 8.4.
- Added support for several AMD GPUs: Radeon RX 540 / 540X / 550 / 550X, Radeon Pro WX 2100 / 3100. Note: Due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Image no longer supports Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman.
- Several minor bugs have been fixed.
v8.2.0 [Apr 29, 2017]
- Improved hardware compatibility for AMD GPUs: Re-implemented support for pre-GCN GPUs based on the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman. These include most 57xx/58xx/59xx and 67xx/68xx/69xx cards.
- Improved the Filter Tuning Assist tool (former Filter Tuning Mode).
- Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest cameras from Fujifilm and some other manufacturers.
- Several minor bugs have been fixed.
v8.0.2 [Jun 28, 2016]
Higher quality of noise reduction
- High Quality mode for better detail preservation and sharper image (at the cost of reduced processing speed: 1.5–3 times slower than Normal Quality).
- Highest Quality mode for better detail preservation (at the cost of reduced processing speed: 1.5–3 times slower than High Quality).
- Detail Recovery function helps to recover fine details that standard filter can not recover.
- Artifact Removal filter to remove speck artifacts (specks are typically introduced by in-camera denoising and compression).
- More accurate profiling of Very Low and Ultra Low frequencies when using small selection.
- Very Low and Ultra Low frequency ranges are now always automatically processed and can be separately adjusted.
- Enhanced Edge Smoothing function.
- Improved sharpening quality: less halos, sharper edges.
v7.6.0 [Oct 13, 2014]
Version 7.6
Improved tolerance to corrupted EXIF metadata
Improved compatibility with EXIF metadata of Apple devices
Updated to CUDA 6: added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with Compute Capability 5.0 (such as GeForce GTX 750 Ti and more)
Improved error reporting of GPU-specific issues
Several minor bugs have been fixed
v7.5.0 [Oct 25, 2013]
Added support for the following AMD GPUs:
- AMD Radeon HD 7790;
- AMD Radeon HD 87xx/88xx/89xx;
- AMD Radeon R7 260X;
- AMD Radeon R9 270X/280X/290X;
- Another AMD/ATI GPU based on one of the following chip series: Bonaire, Hainan, Hawaii.
Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon, Canon and Pentax cameras.
Several minor bugs have been fixed.
v7.4.0 [May 30, 2013]
- Added support for new NVidia GPUs with CUDA Compute Capability 3.5 (such as GeForce GTX Titan and Tesla K20).
- Improved reliability on systems with multiple OpenCL platforms (AMD/ATI and Intel).
- Improved Navigator panel (adjustable in menu Tools > Navigator).
- Several minor bugs have been fixed.
v7.3.0 [Nov 14, 2012]
Version 7.3
- Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs through OpenCL (GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVidia and AMD/ATI cards)
- The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:
- ATI Radeon HD 57xx/58xx/59xx;
- AMD Radeon HD 67xx/68xx/69xx;
- AMD Radeon HD 77xx/78xx/79xx;
- Another AMD/ATI GPU based on one of the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman, Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti
- Added support for reading and writing images in PNG format
- New option to preserve original file timestamp in output image file
- New Navigator panel to quickly locate image areas using a thumbnail display
- Improved tolerance to corrupted image metadata
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
