AMD’s latest Ryzen Threadripper has arrived, and it brings along some impressive specs with it. We’re talking 64 cores, 128 threads, 288MB of cache, and a price tag of $3,990 USD. To kick off our look at AMD’s 64-core monster, we’re going to start with our deluge of tests under Linux, including compiling, rendering, and science.

AMD’s newest Ryzen Threadripper processor is an absolute beast, and because of that, it’s not for everyone. If you’ve got an insatiable need for more cores than even the 24- or 32-core Threadrippers can offer, then the 64-core 3990X may be right up your alley. Let’s see how it fares across our usual range of workstation workloads.

AMD’s latest gaming GPU to join its Radeon Navi family is the RX 5600 XT. With its price-point, and 6GB framebuffer, the RX 5600 XT takes NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 head-on. We’re taking a look at the card with both its reference BIOS, as well as its performance-boosting BIOS, which will bump both the GPU and memory clocks.

When GeForce launched 20 years ago, powering cutting-edge games was its focus. Over time, GPUs became more capable, evolving to the point where they were not just useful in creative design, but vital. Last summer, the entire creative industry got a shot in the arm with the launch of NVIDIA’s RTX family of GPUs and features. In this article, we’re going to explore why that is.

We recently explored GPU performance in RealityCapture and KeyShot, two applications that share the trait of requiring NVIDIA GPUs to run. With more results in-hand, we’re now going to explore performance from five other renderers that also require NVIDIA: Arnold, Redshift, Octane, V-Ray, and Adobe Dimension.

Luxion’s KeyShot 9 brings a lot of good stuff to the table, but of most interest to us is the introduction of not just GPU rendering, but also GPU accelerated denoising. In this article, we’re going to be taking a look at performance from both CPU and GPU rendering, and also talk about some quirks that you may encounter when shifting from CPU to GPU.