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CUDA

Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020

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

Create compressed textures for games with this neat Photoshop plugin and standalone application.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020

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

3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.

Saturday, March 14th, 2020

Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.

Friday, February 21st, 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

Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

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

GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

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

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

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering.

Monday, November 4th, 2019