First seen in its server-bound Milan-X EPYC, AMD’s brought its 3D V-Cache technology to consumers with the new Ryzen 7 5800XD. With triple the L3 cache vs. the original 5800X, the right workloads could exhibit a notable performance-boost. For our first look at the 5800X3D, we’re tackling our usual assortment of workstation performance scenarios.

We’re taking a performance look at Blender’s latest version, 3.1, with the help of a huge collection of current-gen GPUs. As before, we’re going to be taking a look at rendering performance for both Cycles and Eevee, as well as viewport performance with Solid, Wireframe, and Material Preview modes.

We’ve known for some time that Intel’s Arc discrete GPUs were en route, but today marks the day when the company opens the flood gates and gives us a deluge of information to chomp on. The first Arc GPUs are going to be found in notebooks, but the feature set we learn about today will impact the future desktop GPUs, as well.

At its latest GTC, NVIDIA takes the veil off of its latest AI-focused GPU architecture. Named after Grace Hopper, ‘Hopper’ greatly improves performance in key areas over the previous generation, including both with raw compute, and bandwidth. Those improvements are bolstered with a healthy dose of new secure computing features.

AMD’s latest Radeon Pro workstation-grade graphics card is the W6400, a low-profile offering that doesn’t require a power connector, and is priced at $229. As usual, we’re taking this new card for a spin through a wide-range of workloads, and see how it fits into the overall performance picture.

NVIDIA has just launched its 8th Ampere-based gaming GPU, coming to us in the form of the $249 GeForce RTX 3050. At its price point, the RTX 3050 is the least-expensive GeForce to include RTX features, like DLSS and RT cores. Let’s see how the latest X050 GeForce card fares across 11 game titles and many synthetic tests.