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
GPU rendering
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
Nvidia unveils Omniverse Machinima
Upcoming app will let users create 3D animations based on games assets using new AI-driven tools.
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
AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0
Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.
Monday, August 24th, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Maya
Now shipping: check out the new features in the next big update to the Maya edition of the renderer.
Friday, August 7th, 2020
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0.4
Big update cuts render times on modern multi-core CPUs; adds new IPR window for 3ds Max users, and new Cinema 4D scattering system.
Thursday, August 6th, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Chaos Group releases Project Lavina Beta 0.4
New tool for real-time ray traced previews of V-Ray scenes gets new animation editor, physical camera.
Thursday, July 9th, 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
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 5
The next generation of V-Ray is now out of beta, and available to buy. Check out the new features in Chaos Group's powerful renderer.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0
Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020