Chaos has just released version 6 of its popular photorealistic V-Ray render engine, so we of course couldn’t wait long before giving it a good test. Equipped with NVIDIA’s current-gen Amperes, along with a top-end Turing and Pascal-based GPU, we’re analyzing rendering performance across five different scenes.

Codemasters’ latest Formula 1 game, F1 22, has released this month, so we’ve hopped into the cockpit, and given the game a thorough performance test at four resolutions, with and without ray tracing. Let’s see how both AMD’s and NVIDIA’s current-gen GPUs hold up.

It’s been some time since we’ve taken a detailed look at rendering performance in Maxon’s Redshift, so this article will get us up to speed. While Redshift is soon to gain support for AMD’s Radeon GPUs, it’s not quite here yet – so for now, we’ll take a look at rendering five different projects with NVIDIA’s current-gen GeForce stack.

First seen in its server-bound Milan-X EPYC, AMD’s brought its 3D V-Cache technology to consumers with the new Ryzen 7 5800XD. With triple the L3 cache vs. the original 5800X, the right workloads could exhibit a notable performance-boost. For our first look at the 5800X3D, we’re tackling our usual assortment of workstation performance scenarios.

We’re taking a performance look at Blender’s latest version, 3.1, with the help of a huge collection of current-gen GPUs. As before, we’re going to be taking a look at rendering performance for both Cycles and Eevee, as well as viewport performance with Solid, Wireframe, and Material Preview modes.

We’ve known for some time that Intel’s Arc discrete GPUs were en route, but today marks the day when the company opens the flood gates and gives us a deluge of information to chomp on. The first Arc GPUs are going to be found in notebooks, but the feature set we learn about today will impact the future desktop GPUs, as well.