Blender Foundation launches Blender Benchmark
See how AMD, Intel and Nvidia processors perform with Blender's new hardware benchmarking test.
Monday, August 20th, 2018
Intel
Otoy reveals its roadmap for OctaneRender 2018 and 2019
Next-but-one releases to add light linking, trace sets, new RNDR framework with support for iOS and integrated graphics.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
innoBright ships Altus 1.9
Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL.
Friday, November 3rd, 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
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
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
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
Microsoft acquires Havok from Intel
Real-time physics system used on Assassin's Creed: Unity expected to help power the Xbox One Cloud.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
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
LuxRender 1.5 ships
Now officially shipping: Open-source renderer gets major speed boosts, support for AOVs. New 3ds Max exporter to come.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Faceshift releases faceshift Studio 2015
Markerless facial mocap system now supports the Intel RealSense sensor. Use it to create a $510 wearable camera rig.
Friday, March 13th, 2015
BOXX introduces 12-core mobile workstation
GoBOXX 2725 is "likely more powerful than the desktop workstation you're currently using", says firm.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
HP unveils the ZBook 14: the 'first workstation Ultrabook'
Slim new ZBook becomes first mobile workstation to meet Ultrabook specs, but trades portability for power.
Friday, September 13th, 2013