The StudioGPU blog is showing off some of the new rendering features mentioned in a recent Renderosity review, and even goes so far as to show some of the results and how they compare to MachStudio 1.2.

Now if you’ve followed the recent Renderosity review, you know StudioGPU is actively working on additional rendering styles including ray-tracing. Well this image, using some StudioGPU radiance pass secret sauce is an early example of what you can expect. This is just a prototype, but you can see that the quality of light and color is cranked up even further.

Oh by the way, this new “In the StudioGPU Labs” image took about 60 sec. to render at 980 X 1200 with with x6 AA samples (36 samples per pixel).

Be sure to hit their site for the full-resolution version of the new rendering image.

via StudioGPU Blog: What’s cooking in the StudioGPU Labs – Feb 2010.