Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs – 2020
Read Jason Lewis's in-depth review of Nvidia's Quadro RTX and AMD's Radeon Pro workstation GPUs.
Friday, August 28th, 2020
OpenCL
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.5 for Blender in beta
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets neat 'target frame rate' setting for viewport renders.
Monday, August 24th, 2020
AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0
Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.
Monday, August 24th, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon ProRender 2.0
SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU.
Monday, May 18th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Unreal Engine
Free plugin enables GPU path tracing and 'full spectrum rendering' in UE4 on AMD GPUs.
Saturday, May 16th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.4 for Blender
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets experimental new 'next gen' mode with support for out-of-core geometry.
Thursday, May 14th, 2020
Future Mac versions of Cinema 4D will need Metal support
Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender
Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020
Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Radeon ProRender for Blender gets 'full spectrum rendering'
Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.8 for Maya
Free GPU renderer gets new 'full spectrum rendering' mode for hybrid rasterised/ray traced viewport previews.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Adobe ships After Effects 17.0
Compositing software gets more fluid playback of cached previews, faster Content-Aware fill, better EXR import, Cryptomatte support.
Monday, November 4th, 2019