Blender Foundation launches Blender Benchmark
See how AMD, Intel and Nvidia processors perform with Blender's new hardware benchmarking test.
Monday, August 20th, 2018
NVIDIA
Nvidia open-sources MDL
SDK of the Material Definition Language supported in V-Ray, Substance Designer and Adobe tools now available as source code.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
Nvidia unveils Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 GPUs
'World's first ray tracing GPUs' based on Nvidia's new Turing architecture will ship later this year.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018
Video: Chaos Group's new real-time ray tracing system
'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2018
AMD unveils the Radeon Pro WX 8200
New Vega-based pro workstation GPU approaches the WX 9100 for compute power, but for just $999.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Chaos Group on V-Ray Next and the future of rendering
V-Ray Next is a landmark update. Chaos Group reveals the thinking behind it, and the forces shaping rendering tools.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Chaos Group launches V-Ray Next for 3ds Max
Now shipping: Next big update to the renderer officially launches. See the key features and price changes here.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
What smart studios look for when buying CG hardware
Advertorial: Nice Shoes CTO Robert Keske reveals what governs the award-winning studio's choice of new technology.
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Clarisse adds support for Nvidia's OptiX denoising
2D/3D rendering system gets fast, AI-based image denoising for both the 3D viewport and final renders.
Friday, March 30th, 2018
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
Chaos Group releases Beta 1 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max
Updated: Find more info on the new light cache analysis-based 'smart features' like auto exposure.
Monday, January 22nd, 2018
Mental Ray: a retrospective
To mark the news that Nvidia is to discontinue the renderer, we look back over the highs and lows of nearly 30 years of Mental Ray.
Monday, November 20th, 2017
Nvidia discontinues Mental Ray
Sales of the standalone renderer and the 3ds Max and Maya plugins stop today. Work on Iray continues via Nvidia's development partners.
Monday, November 20th, 2017