Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021

See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.

Thursday, October 14th, 2021

Isotropix unveils Angie

Updated, new demo: Check out the FAQs for Clarisse iFX's next-gen CPU/GPU render engine, and see how it performs on gaming GPUs.

Friday, September 17th, 2021

Redshift gets new 'Easy' UI

Redshift 3.0.51 update streamlines the GPU renderer's user interface. Blender plugin gets support for OSL shaders and UDIM textures.

Thursday, August 12th, 2021

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 11.2

Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

Maxon ships Redshift 3.0.46

GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya gets new OCIO 2-based colour management system, including ACEScg support.

Tuesday, June 22nd, 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

Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4

Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.

Monday, May 24th, 2021

Isotropix ships Clarisse 5.0

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

The Blender Foundation unveils Cycles X

Big update to Blender's production renderer will reduce render times 'up to 7x' on current Nvidia GPUs.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship

Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.

Monday, April 12th, 2021

Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU

See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range Ampere card performs in real-world DCC and GPU rendering tests.

Saturday, February 27th, 2021

Discover 10 key new features from Blender 2.92

Discover the most important new tools in the open-source 3D app, from geometry nodes to APIC sims.

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2

VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.

Saturday, January 30th, 2021