Nvidia unveils GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 GPUs
Expected to be faster, cheaper and less power-hungry than the Titan X. How will they hold up for DCC work?
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
AMD
Otoy is cross-compiling CUDA for non-Nvidia GPUs
Story in VentureBeat retweeted by Otoy reports that the work will let OctaneRender run on AMD GPUs.
Friday, March 11th, 2016
Vulkan 1.0 arrives: GPU drivers already available
See tech demos for the next-gen graphics API and download drivers for Nvidia and AMD GPUs here.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
AMD unveils FirePro S7150 and S7150 x2 server GPUs
New multi-user graphics cards are 'world’s first hardware virtualized GPU products', according to AMD.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
AMD unveils Radeon R9 Fury, Fury X and Nano GPUs
Updated: Raw compute power and next-gen HBM memory ready new cards for 4K gaming. Price of Nano now cut to $499.
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
AMD unveils small form factor FirePro W4300 GPU
Same specs as the mid-range FirePro W5100, but smaller, less power-hungry, and a bit cheaper.
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
Dell unveils new Precision pro mobile workstations
New Skylake Xeon mobile CPUs, Nvidia or AMD GPUs, and up to 4K UHD PremiumColor displays.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
HP announces new Z240 entry-level pro workstations
More RAM, new Intel Skylake CPUs, plus faster Z Turbo Drive G2 SSDs - and they'll even bust dust for you.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
AMD unveils FirePro S9170
New high-end server GPU boasts a whopping 32GB of RAM and 5.2 Tflops peak compute performance.
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
AAA studio releases FurryBall RT
Now shipping: Major rewrite of GPU-based Maya renderer boosts speed, but temporarily removes 3ds Max and C4D support.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Check out the new features in Blender 2.75
Updated, now shipping: Big update adds stereo rendering, proper support for AMD GPUs in Cycles.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
HP announces Z440, Z640 and Z840 workstations
More RAM, newer CPUs and GPUs and faster SSDs than previous Z-Series pro graphics workstations.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Video: AMD demos new GPU-based Maya renderer
Designed to showcase use of OpenCL 2.0 for raytracing, and due for an open-source release.
Monday, September 1st, 2014