Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve taken a look at current performance for a couple of CUDA-only renderers, V-Ray and Redshift. For this article, we’re going to group a trio of others together, and bring is up-to-date on current CUDA and OptiX rendering with Autodesk Arnold, Luxion KeyShot, as well as OTOY Octane.

With the release of Redshift 3.0 set in the not-so-distant future, we’ve decided to finally dive in and take a look at its performance improvements over the current 2.6 version. As we did with V-Ray last week, we’re also taking this opportunity to render with NVIDIA’s OptiX, and see what further performance gains might be in store.

The gaming notebook market has been infused with high-refresh display panels over the last couple of years, and with its latest 10th-gen processors, Intel has been eager to see more flood the market. In this article, we’re going to explore 300Hz gaming on Acer’s new Predator Triton 500 notebook.

With Chaos Group having launched the latest major update to its popular V-Ray rendering plugin, we’ve decided to boot the test rig up and see what performance gains are to be had between the brand-new V-Ray 5, and the most recent version of V-Ray 4. With a collection of NVIDIA graphics cards in-hand, let’s explore CUDA, OptiX and heterogeneous performance in V-Ray 5.

With its Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X quad-core processors, AMD is delivering some new options to those who want to build a new rig on the cheap. Fortunately, today’s ~$100 processors are pretty powerful, with both of these options impressing us in various ways. So, let’s walk through an onslaught of test results across workstation and gaming workloads to see how these chips stack up.

Corsair surprised us earlier this year when it released a new air cooler: the dual-fan A500. From the get-go, the cooler gave us reason to be intrigued, with its ease-of-installation, adjustable (and easily removable) fans, and a clean aesthetic that takes the rare route of foregoing RGB. Let’s see how it cools our Core i9-9900KS!