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
GPU rendering
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 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
Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Otoy launches RNDR
Innovative 'distributed GPU render network' lets OctaneRender users earn credits by making their PCs available to others for rendering.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2
Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.
Monday, April 6th, 2020
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
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
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
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for SketchUp Update 2
Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020
Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 21st, 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