Blender Foundation joins Khronos Group
Developer can now influence development of key graphics standards used in Blender like OpenCL, OpenXR.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
GPU computing
Nvidia unveils new RTX A6000 and A40 pro Ampere GPUs
Upcoming successors to the Quadro RTX 6000 and 8000 to double their GPU rendering speed.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Khronos Group finalises radical new OpenCL 3.0 spec
New spec aims to reboot the GPU compute API for a new generation of CG tools. SDK now available.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 GPUs
Check out the key specs of the Ampere cards, including GPU ray tracing in Blender, Arnold, V-Ray.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs – 2020
Read Jason Lewis's in-depth review of Nvidia's Quadro RTX and AMD's Radeon Pro workstation GPUs.
Friday, August 28th, 2020
Apple ditches Intel CPUs in Macs in favour of its own chips
See what the move to Apple Silicon will mean for CG tools like Maya, Photoshop, Blender and Octane X.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 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
What smart studios look for when buying CG hardware
Advertorial: Nice Shoes CTO Robert Keske reveals what governs the award-winning studio's choice of new technology.
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Foundry releases Nuke 11 product family in beta
Speed and open standards focused update adds support for VFX Reference Platform 2017, extends GPU acceleration.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
AMD announces massive 1TB RadeonPro SSG GPU
Rule-breaking new card comes with slots for NAND flash memory to power through GPU rendering work.
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Open source devs criticise Apple's OpenCL support
OpenCL drivers for OS X 'broken', Apple 'ignoring its creative users', say LuxRender and Blender devs.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
The best of last week's CG news in brief
Read our five-minute digest, from Blender 2.71 and GPU support in Fabric Engine to Autodesk buying Shotgun.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2014