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.

Turning a series of photographs into 3D models is a compute intensive process, one that can make good use of CPUs and GPUs alike. Capturing Reality’s RealityCapture becomes our second photogrammetry benchmark, and we’re introducing it with a dedicated look at graphics card performance.

When you’re in intense gameplay, the last thing you want to worry about is your connection dropping, or getting tangled up in wires. Can you have your cake and eat it too? Corsair is further asserting its presence in the gaming realm with its new Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE. Can this gaming headset deliver it all?

It’s an age-old question: is Linux better than Windows, or vice-versa? It’s of course a loaded question, but we can easily take a look at specific angles, such as performance. In this quick match-up, we’re seeing how both OSes fare in a couple of rendering tests involving Blender and Chaos Group’s V-Ray.