Dell unveils new Precision pro mobile workstations
New Skylake Xeon mobile CPUs, Nvidia or AMD GPUs, and up to 4K UHD PremiumColor displays.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
GPU
HP announces new Z240 entry-level pro workstations
More RAM, new Intel Skylake CPUs, plus faster Z Turbo Drive G2 SSDs - and they'll even bust dust for you.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Compare Vulkan to OpenGL ES in 'gnomes per second'
Imagination Technologies' demo of graphics APIs draws 40,000 gnomes in real time on a PowerVR G6430 mobile GPU.
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
AMD unveils FirePro S9170
New high-end server GPU boasts a whopping 32GB of RAM and 5.2 Tflops peak compute performance.
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Group test: Nvidia professional GPUs 2015
Jason Lewis puts three of Nvidia's top-of-the-range Quadro cards through a battery of real-world tests.
Monday, July 6th, 2015
Pixar and DreamWorks announce OpenSubdiv 3.0
Big update to open-source subdivision surfaces libraries boosts CPU performance 10 times.
Wednesday, June 24th, 2015
Cebas ships moskitoRender Subscription Drop 2
Intriguing update aims to optimise the 3ds Max renderer to match the age of your GPU.
Friday, June 12th, 2015
Eye candy: Square Enix's Witch DirectX 12 tech demo
See four Titan X GPUs push 63 million polygons around in real time to create some gorgeous visuals.
Friday, May 1st, 2015
Discover the new features in Maya 2016
Videos: see the new sculpting tools, Delta Mush deformer, updates to Bifrost and revamped Hypershade.
Monday, April 13th, 2015
Nvidia unveils Quadro M6000
Jason Lewis runs through the specs of Nvidia's new top-of-the-range pro GPU, and reveals some early benchmark results.
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4
Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.
Monday, November 17th, 2014
Nvidia and AMD overhaul Quadro, FirePro line-ups
Both firms announce replacements for entire current line of pro GPUs. Check out the new cards' stats here.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
Check system performance with BlenchMark
Free Blender-based benchmarking tool tests both CPU and GPU and reports results to a central website.
Monday, July 28th, 2014