Otoy releases free public preview of Octane X
Long-awaited Metal-native version of OctaneRender now available to Mac users with Otoy subscriptions.
Monday, July 20th, 2020
AMD
Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon ProRender 2.0
SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU.
Monday, May 18th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Unreal Engine
Free plugin enables GPU path tracing and 'full spectrum rendering' in UE4 on AMD GPUs.
Saturday, May 16th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.4 for Blender
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets experimental new 'next gen' mode with support for out-of-core geometry.
Thursday, May 14th, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon Pro VII and Infinity Fabric Link Bridge
Check out AMD's new top-of-the-range workstation GPU and its answer to Nvidia's NVLink Bridge.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
Otoy and JangaFX team up to create EmberGen FX
New integrated version of the EmberGen real-time gaseous fluid simulator coming to OctaneRender.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Future Mac versions of Cinema 4D will need Metal support
Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender
Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.
Monday, February 17th, 2020
AMD unveils the Radeon Pro W5500
New addition to AMD's Radeon Pro W5000 series of workstation GPUs is a pro 8GB card for just $399.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
Unity 2019.3 ships
Game engine gets new Hi-DPI UI, updates to lightmapping and animation, experimental support for ray tracing on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
Sneak peek: Octane X
Otoy's new Metal-based version of OctaneRender to run on the Intel chips in MacBook Pros as well as the AMD GPUs in Mac desktops.
Thursday, January 2nd, 2020