In the seven months since NVIDIA launched its first Ada Lovelace-based GeForce, we’ve seen the release of four models total. With the bottom of that bunch priced at $599, there’s been a ton of demand for more affordable options – and thankfully, we now know that those are arriving soon. Today’s launch…..
May 18, 2023 | Rob Williams
Last spring, Maxon announced that its popular Redshift renderer would be gaining support for AMD’s Radeon graphics cards. As with some competing engines (eg: Chaos V-Ray), most of Redshift’s existence has revolved around NVIDIA’s CUDA API, which of course means an NVIDIA GPU was required for use. Ahead of the AMD GPU…..
May 15, 2023 | Rob Williams
AMD has today announced its newest Radeon PRO workstation GPU series, with models built around its current generation RDNA3 architecture. While AMD could have launched this Radeon PRO W7000 with some modest models, it’s instead decided to make a statement with two top-end SKUs that don’t cater just to “heavy” workloads, but…..
April 13, 2023 | Rob Williams
The latest version of Blender has just released, and as we’ve come to expect, there’s a lot to take in, despite the previous version releasing just a mere three months ago. Key focuses here include hair- and fur-based Geometry Nodes, built-in assets (yes, you’re reading that right), support for vector displacement maps…..
March 29, 2023 | Rob Williams
NVIDIA’s latest (and still virtual) GTC has just kicked-off, and without wasting a single second, the company’s unveiled lots to talk about, with large focuses on proviz, healthcare, automotive, robotics, and lithography. For this post, we’re going to focus on what gets us (and much of our audience) the most excited: professional…..
March 21, 2023 | Rob Williams
AMD’s had a pretty busy 2023 so far, especially where CPUs are concerned. At CES, the company announced three 65W Ryzen models, in addition to three others that have been infused with 3D V-Cache. Today, the company has announced both pricing and availability for those latter SKUs (the 65W parts were officially…..
February 1, 2023 | Rob Williams
Intel has been on quite the “journey” since it launched its Arc-series graphics cards last year. While the GPU hardware is really quite good, the state of Arc’s drivers being less-than-ideal was known to pretty much every enthusiast. Fortunately, the company has been on a tear to get bugs fixed and support…..
February 1, 2023 | Rob Williams
As we covered during CES last week, AMD’s introducing a number of processor SKUs for the desktop market, including a trio of 65W parts, and another trio that packs AMD’s 3D V-Cache inside. Today’s launch revolves around the former, the 65W parts that give new options to those wanting to adopt AMD’s…..
January 9, 2023 | Rob Williams
When we first took a detailed look at Intel’s Arc graphics cards this past fall, we found ourselves impressed with the performance we were seeing across multiple scenarios. At that time, there was no question that Arc’s graphics drivers were still in bad need of polish, but after our exhaustive testing, we…..
January 9, 2023 | Rob Williams
This year’s CES has had the usual onslaught of product announcements, but it feels like the CPU market has been catered to more this go-around than in previous events. We wrote the other day of Intel’s new CPU launches, with an almost ridiculous number of SKUs targeting both desktop and notebook. Now,…..
January 5, 2023 | Rob Williams