Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.6 for Modo
Modo edition of the renderer gets hybrid CPU/GPU rendering, V-Ray Fur and support for Cryptomatte.
Saturday, March 24th, 2018
GPU
Videos: See Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing in action
Updated: neat Star Wars short shows the real-time effects possible in UE4 with this new extension to DX12.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
Nvidia releases Mental Ray for Maya 1.2
First version of the renderer compatible with Maya 2018, and with Nvidia's upcoming Volta GPUs.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
HP announces 'world's most powerful' CG workstation
New Z8 G4 boasts up to 56 CPU cores, triple Quadro P6000 GPUs, 3TB RAM. New Z6 G4 and Z4 G4 models also due.
Sunday, September 17th, 2017
AMD announces Radeon Pro WX 9100 and SSG GPUs
New top-of-the-range workstation GPUs include 'world's first card to break the Terabyte memory barrier'.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017
Pixar unveils RenderMan 22 and RenderMan XPU
Heavyweight renderer to get new live link to compatible DCC apps, new hybrid CPU/GPU render tech.
Monday, August 7th, 2017
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 11.0
Compositing packages get OpenCL GPU acceleration on AMD GPUs, new live collaboration system.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2017
Redshift gets new GPU benchmarking utility
See how current Nvidia workstation and gaming GPUs compare in this real-world render benchmark test.
Friday, June 23rd, 2017
Apple unveils the iMac Pro
New top-of-the-range graphics workstation will feature 5K display, up to 18 CPU cores and 128GB RAM. Existing iMacs also updated.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
HP unveils first VR-ready mobile graphics workstation
New ZBook 17 G4 also joined by new versions of the ZBook 15 and ZBook Studio, and a new Ultrabook, the 14u.
Friday, April 21st, 2017
Apple reboots the Mac Pro
New models with better CPUs, GPUs and more RAM are available now, and a new modular design and Pro display are coming in 2018.
Thursday, April 6th, 2017
Nvidia unveils six new Quadro workstation GPUs
New cards complete Nvidia's Pascal product line-up - and bring the ultra-high-end GP100 from server to desktop.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
AMD announces new Radeon Pro 400 series mobile GPUs
New ultra-thin, power-efficient mobile workstation cards to debut in Apple's new 15" MacBook Pro.
Friday, October 28th, 2016