AMD unveils seven new Radeon Pro workstation GPUs
Radeon Pro 500 series available in iMacs now; new top-of-the-range Radeon Pro Vega 64 and 56 to come in December.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
OpenCL
Foundry releases Nuke 11 product family in beta
Speed and open standards focused update adds support for VFX Reference Platform 2017, extends GPU acceleration.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Side Effects Software releases Houdini 16
Updated: 'Largest ever' Houdini update adds autorigging, more simulation tools, terrain system. Now shipping.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
Agisoft ships PhotoScan 1.3
Popular image-based modelling software adds support for GPU accelerated image matching via CUDA or OpenCL.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
LAUBLab releases V-RayforC4D 3.4
Huge update moves Cinema 4D edition of renderer to same core technology as the 3ds Max edition.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
Insydium ships Cycles 4D
Promising new plugin implements Blender's powerful GPU-based renderer and node-based materials inside Cinema 4D.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Maxon picks AMD's Radeon ProRender for Cinema 4D
OpenCL-based GPU render engine will be integrated into Cinema 4D over the next few release cycles.
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Red Giant releases Magic Bullet Suite 13
Suite of colour correction tools gets extended GPU support, new Renoiser plugin. Price up $100.
Thursday, October 27th, 2016
Get Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max or Maya
Updated: Maya version of AMD's free, physically accurate OpenCL based GPU renderer now available.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
Joe Alter previews Shave and a Haircut 10
Big update to Maya hair plugin to add full GPU support, powerful grooming and sculpting options.
Saturday, July 30th, 2016
AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 4
Fast-evolving 3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets revamped FLIP fluid, cloth and FEM solvers, better V-Ray support, plus more streamlined UI.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Go Ghost unveils first 'sub pixel sample compositor'
Evotis will take compositing way beyond deep images, claims intriguing new tool's developer.
Monday, June 13th, 2016