Maxon releases Cinebench 2026
Popular free CG benchmark now supports Apple M4 and M5 processors, AMD 9000 series GPUs and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
Monday, January 5th, 2026
GPU benchmark
SPECviewperf 15 adds Blender and UE5 tests to the benchmark
New version of the veteran graphics benchmark for testing workstations reflects recent changes to CG software and industry pipelines.
Monday, May 5th, 2025
Maxon releases Cinebench 2024
Significant update reinstates GPU benchmarking to the popular free CG hardware benchmark.
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
RandomControl updates Maverick Indie and Studio
Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.
Monday, November 9th, 2020
Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2
Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.
Monday, April 6th, 2020
Blender Foundation launches Blender Benchmark
See how AMD, Intel and Nvidia processors perform with Blender's new hardware benchmarking test.
Monday, August 20th, 2018