Apple unveils new M2 chip
Discover how the first second-gen Apple Silicon processor performs in CG software like Photoshop, Affinity Photo and Final Cut Pro.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
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Nvidia releases the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
New $1,999 24GB GPU is "the world's fastest graphics card". See its key specs for DCC work here.
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Apple unveils the M1 Ultra
'Most powerful chip ever built for a personal computer' has a higher GPU compute performance than some Nvidia Ampere RTX cards.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
AMD unveils new Radeon Pro W6400 workstation GPU
See how the $229 hardware-accelerated ray tracing-capable GPU performs with CG apps like Photoshop and Rhino.
Monday, January 24th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Apple unveils new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
See how the first Apple Silicon processors targeted at graphics pros perform in apps like Cinema 4D and Redshift.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
AMD introduces Radeon Pro Image Boost for 3ds Max
Viewport rendering tech lets users of AMD's pro GPUs view models with 4K clarity on HD monitors.
Friday, October 1st, 2021
AMD unveils Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600 GPUs
New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs
New 'Big Navi' cards go up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs - and feature dedicated ray tracing cores.
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Khronos Group finalises radical new OpenCL 3.0 spec
New spec aims to reboot the GPU compute API for a new generation of CG tools. SDK now available.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020