Released in late 2024, Autodesk VRED Professional 2025.1 continues to set the industry standard for high-end real-time 3D visualization, especially in the automotive, transportation, and industrial design sectors. The 2025.1 update brings meaningful workflow improvements, better performance on modern hardware, and deeper integration with the latest design tools.
What is Autodesk VRED Professional?
VRED Pro is Autodesk’s flagship solution for creating photorealistic renderings, interactive presentations, and virtual prototypes in real time. Design studios and marketing teams use it to evaluate, present, and validate product designs long before physical prototypes are built.
Key industries:
- Automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers (exterior & interior visualization)
- Aerospace and rail
- Consumer goods and industrial machinery
- Virtual showrooms and configurators
What’s New in VRED Professional 2025.1
- Enhanced Ray Tracing Performance Up to 30 % faster GPU ray tracing on NVIDIA RTX 5000-series cards thanks to optimized RTX branch and improved denoising.
- Substance 3D Material Integration (Beta) Direct import and live syncing of Adobe Substance 3D materials (.sbsar). Adjust parameters (wear, dirt, color) inside VRED without leaving the scene.
- Improved OpenUSD Workflow
- Full support for USD 23.11
- Variant-set authoring inside VRED
- Better material binding (MaterialX → VRED round-trip)
- AI-Accelerated Light Baking New “AI Light Bake” mode uses neural denoising to produce clean lightmaps in minutes instead of hours.
- Virtual Reality & Collaboration
- Multi-user VR sessions now support up to 12 simultaneous users
- Integrated voice chat and laser-pointer annotations
- One-click export to Autodesk VRED Cloud (web streaming)
- Camera & Animation Upgrades
- Physical camera with real-world lens data (Canon, Zeiss, Arri)
- Turntable animation now supports non-linear easing and camera shake
- Python API 3.0 Over 180 new functions, including direct access to ray-tracing core and batch rendering controls.
- Other Notable Fixes & Enhancements
- Cryptomatte support for Autodesk Flame/Arnold post-production
- Improved CAD import (Catia V5-6R2024, NX 2306, Parasolid 37)
- Native Apple Silicon (M2/M3) build now available alongside Windows x64
System Requirements (Recommended)
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10/11 64-bit | Windows 11 22H2 or later |
| CPU | Intel i7 / AMD Ryzen 7 | Intel Xeon / AMD Threadripper PRO |
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX 3070 8 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4080/5090 or Quadro RTX A6000 |
| RAM | 32 GB | 64–128 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB SSD | NVMe SSD |