Which CG applications support Apple's new M1 chips?
Discover which 3D, image-editing and rendering apps will support the first Apple Silicon processors when they ship next week.
Friday, November 13th, 2020
GPU rendering
RandomControl updates Maverick Indie and Studio
Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.
Monday, November 9th, 2020
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.1
Renderer gets new post effects framework, physically correct nested dielectrics, improvements to USD support and Arnold GPU.
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Blender Foundation joins Khronos Group
Developer can now influence development of key graphics standards used in Blender like OpenCL, OpenXR.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
OctaneRender users to get World Creator for free
All part of a deal between Otoy and BiteTheBytes to link the GPU-based renderer and terrain generator.
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
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
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