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Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, February 6th, 2020

Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets new HUD mode, plus improved performance on older hardware.

Thursday, January 30th, 2020

It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.

Friday, August 16th, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019

Free driver update extends DXR support on selected Pascal and Volta GPUs, including the GeForce 1060 to 1080 Ti.

Friday, April 12th, 2019

New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019

Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.

Thursday, February 14th, 2019

Both get improved Viewport 2.0 performance; Maya gets cached playback for animation previews.

Tuesday, January 15th, 2019

Latest card in Nvidia's new range of 'ray tracing ready' GPUs has similar price to the old Quadro P4000.

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.

Monday, September 10th, 2018

'World's first ray tracing GPUs' based on Nvidia's new Turing architecture will ship later this year.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2018