Insydium releases Cycles 4D Build 500
Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
OptiX
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
cebas ships finalRender Drop 4
3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for SketchUp Update 2
Update adds hardware-accelerated rendering on Nvidia RTX GPUs, and improves material editing workflow.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, February 6th, 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
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.0
Long-awaited GPU rendering system Arnold GPU now out of beta and ready for production use. Subs prices down for single users.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2020.1 in public preview
GPU renderer gets updated RTX acceleration, new spectral sky and daylight system, ACES support.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
Nvidia drops macOS support for CUDA
This week's 10.2 release of CUDA Toolkit, used by many GPU render engines, is the last to run on Macs.
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 3
Rendering on current Nvidia GPUs now 'about 40%' faster, thanks to new support for RTX acceleration.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Tech focus: Modo's new mPath render engine
Modo's new path tracer promises faster, more flexible renders than the default CPU engine. Discover how it works.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019