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
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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
AMD announces massive 1TB RadeonPro SSG GPU
Rule-breaking new card comes with slots for NAND flash memory to power through GPU rendering work.
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
AMD unveils Radeon Pro WX 7100, 5100 and 4100 GPUs
AMD rebrands its workstation cards from the old FirePro W-series; boosts GPU compute power and graphics RAM.
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Nvidia announces Quadro P6000 and P5000 pro GPUs
New cards boost maximum GPU compute power of Nvidia's high-end line-up to a whopping 12 Tflops.
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Get Chaos Group's free 60 page guide to GPU rendering
Download a PDF overview of key trends and best practices in GPU rendering. Targeted at V-Ray, but useful to anyone.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
AMD releases FirePro S7100X server GPU
'Industry's first hardware-virtualised GPU for blade servers' lets up to 16 users access the GPU at once.
Saturday, May 28th, 2016
Nvidia unveils the Quadro M2000
New Maxwell-based 4GB workstation graphics card is expected to sell for under $500.
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
Otoy is cross-compiling CUDA for non-Nvidia GPUs
Story in VentureBeat retweeted by Otoy reports that the work will let OctaneRender run on AMD GPUs.
Friday, March 11th, 2016
AMD unveils FirePro S7150 and S7150 x2 server GPUs
New multi-user graphics cards are 'world’s first hardware virtualized GPU products', according to AMD.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
AMD unveils small form factor FirePro W4300 GPU
Same specs as the mid-range FirePro W5100, but smaller, less power-hungry, and a bit cheaper.
Wednesday, December 9th, 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