Pixar releases RenderMan 27
'Most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight production renderer makes RenderMan XPU ready for final-frame output.
Friday, November 14th, 2025
GPU rendering
Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.4
Check out the changes to the production renderer, including updates to hair shading, bloom effects, and Global Light Sampling.
Thursday, November 13th, 2025
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2025.4
Check out the changes in the latest update to the GPU production renderer, including support for macOS Tahoe in Octane X.
Saturday, October 25th, 2025
Sneak peek: GPU-accelerated smoke and fire in NeXus
Check out nxExplosiaFX, the new smoke and fire simulation tool in Insydium's GPU-based particle effects add-on for Cinema 4D.
Friday, October 17th, 2025
Apple unveils its new M5 chip
Check out the specs for the fifth-gen Apple Silicon processor, and how it performs in CG apps like Blender and DaVinci Resolve.
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Chaos releases Vantage 3.0
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.2 for SketchUp with new AI Upscaler
Major update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds new AI tool for upscaling renders to 16K. Check out all the other new features.
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2025.1
Big update to the GPU-based terrain generator adds new biome and object scattering systems. See all of the changes, and the new pricing.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Maxon 'pauses' development of Redshift for Blender
Blender plugin for the GPU renderer not updated for the Redshift 2026.0 release as Maxon 'redirects its development focus' elsewhere.
Thursday, September 11th, 2025
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.1 for Blender
First big update to the new edition of V-Ray for Blender users adds support for Geometry Nodes and a Cycles-to-V-Ray material converter.
Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
NVIDIA unveils two compact new RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs
See key specs, expected prices and likely performance in CG apps for the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF and RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell cards.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
Chaos adds new AI tools to V-Ray in V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max, Update 2
Check out the new AI Material Generator and image enhancer in this major update to Chaos's production renderer.
Thursday, August 7th, 2025
See CG benchmarks for AMD's Threadripper 9980X and 9970X
Discover how AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series CPUs performed in CG apps like Blender, Maya and UE5 in our early tests.
Wednesday, July 30th, 2025