Qualcomm’s focus for the first half of its latest Snapdragon Summit revolved around the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform, while the second half of the event (and our coverage) targets AR, Snapdragon Compute, advances in spatial audio, and lossless audio over Bluetooth.

At its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm has taken the veil off of its supercharged Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform. Naturally, performance in almost all regards has improved, but so too have the overall capabilities – especially those that revolve around AI.

The second GPU to grace NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace GeForce lineup has landed: RTX 4080. Like the previously-released RTX 4090, the RTX 4080 continues to show us that the Ada Lovelace generation offers huge upticks in rendering performance over the previous-gen Ampere.

The scaling of AI and high performance computing is fascinating. At SC22 NVIDIA explored more uses for its Omniverse and Digital Twin approach to the metaverse, It showcased HPC deployment of its H100 GPUs, edge computing, and developing true to life models of the planet with Lockheed Martin.

With a new Blender version comes a new Blender performance deep-dive – and thankfully, there’s lots to talk about here. Blender 3.3 introduces support for Intel’s Arc GPUs, so those are tested and included here, along with NVIDIA’s newest top-end GeForce. We also explore AMD’s performance improvements over the past six months, as well as shader compile times.

We recently established that Intel’s Arc graphics cards perform well in many creative tasks, but have you wondered how combining the forces of two Arc GPUs might improve things? We’re finding that out here, with the help of Blender, LuxMark, BRAW, and others.