Nvidia drops macOS support for CUDA

This week's 10.2 release of CUDA Toolkit, used by many GPU render engines, is the last to run on Macs.

Friday, November 22nd, 2019

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81

The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3

Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019

Tech focus: Modo's new mPath render engine

Modo's new path tracer promises faster, more flexible renders than the default CPU engine. Discover how it works.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Nvidia backs Blender Development Fund

GPU firm's €120,000/year Patron level support will fund two more devs for the open-source 3D app.

Monday, October 7th, 2019

Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2

Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

Unity 2019.1 ships

Game engine gets new scene visibility controls, better GPU lightmap baking, support for AxF materials, OptiX render denoising.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

cebas ships finalRender Drop 3

3ds Max renderer adds Intel's CPU-based Open Image Denoise system, plus support for Nvidia RTX cards in the OptiX GPU denoiser.

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019

Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU

Long-awaited update brings a 'first taste' of GPU rendering to Arnold, plus better support for MaterialX.

Monday, March 18th, 2019