Content and news by Rob Williams

Corona Renderer users have a good reason to be excited today, as Chaos Czech has just rolled out the latest major iteration of the software: Corona Renderer 7. This release comes just under a year since the release of CR6, but in that time, the developers have added lots of polish and…..

Amazon’s New World MMO has just entered its closed beta stage, and unfortunately, it didn’t take long for a dangerous issue to creep up. On both the official forums and the dedicated subreddit, some owners of EVGA’s GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 have reported that their cards bricked as the result of running…..

The latest company to jump onboard with Blender’s Development Fund is Adobe, makers of a mind-boggling number of creator tools, many of which perfectly complement Blender in a workflow. The company becomes a Corporate Gold sponsor, meaning the Blender Foundation gets an additional €2,500/mo, and the more full Blender’s coffers are, the…..

It’s not often we see an MMORPG developer experience a serious influx of new players some eight years after their game launched, but that’s just what we’re seeing happen right now with Square Enix and Final Fantasy XIV. Out of nowhere, the company has suddenly had to expedite certain decisions, and quickly…..

It’s not often the latest generation of consoles bring forth cool features that are not even available on PC, but the super-fast SSD technologies found on the likes of the PlayStation 5 are basically jaw-dropping. Games like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart leverage improved I/O technologies to speed up level loads, allowing…..

If you use either Adobe’s Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Character Animator, it’s well worth loading up the Creative Cloud app and snagging the latest updates right away. Some enhancements shipped with the latest builds improve workflow, while others offer brand-new functionality that can help you enhance your content without much extra…..

When NVIDIA sets out to acquire a company, it doesn’t seem to waste any time to start producing custom product with the new IP access. After the company announced its plans to acquire Arm last fall, the company announced a full-fledged Arm-based supercomputer called Grace this past spring. Arm in the enterprise…..

Codemasters has just released F1 2021, and for the first time in the series, ray tracing features are offered. For that and other reasons, we decided to dive into a look at both the technical and performance aspects of the game, with plenty of benchmark results to be had at four resolutions with current generation GeForces and Radeons.

Rumors of a portable Steam device have been floating around for a while, but with it being such a difficult market to break into, we were holding back our thoughts until Valve made an announcement – if it ever would. Well, today, we learn that the company has in fact been working…..

When a phone vendor tries to sell you on the standout features of its latest offerings, performance is usually one of the first things discussed. With promises of huge performance, users generally expect that their new phone will run everything faster than their old one. Just how happy do you think a…..

Rockstar has just released the latest update to its popular Red Dead Online, with new content called Blood Money. Along with this update, the long-anticipated introduction of NVIDIA’s DLSS has finally happened, and as you’d expect, it brings some pretty hefty performance uplifts – and thankfully so, since this is a game…..

With the release of Blender 2.93, the 2.X era comes to an end. Considering Blender 2.0 released in August 2000, you could say that this moment is a bit special. It’d be a true understatement to say that the software has come a long way in all of that time, so let’s honor the final major 2.X release with some in-depth rendering and viewport benchmarking, shall we?

As more games featuring support for NVIDIA’s DLSS (deep-learning super-sampling) roll out, the technology continues to get even better. That’s always been pretty obvious, but when Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege received its DLSS update not too long ago, the fact that you are able to take the latest DLSS DLL file…..

When we updated our test machines with Windows 10 21H1 a couple of months ago, we had no idea that the next time we did a major update, we’d be seeing Windows 11. This is an OS that has really come out of nowhere, unless you count the incredible number of leaks…..

It’s been six months since we’ve last taken an in-depth look at GPU rendering performance, and with NVIDIA having just released two new GPUs, we felt now was a great time to get up-to-date. With AMD’s and NVIDIA’s current-get stack in-hand, along with a few legends of the past, we’re going to investigate rendering performance in Blender, Octane, Redshift, V-Ray, and more.

The moment many PC gaming fans have been waiting for has arrived: AMD has just released the first iteration of Super Resolution, the latest feature to join others under the FidelityFX umbrella. When FSR was first announced a few weeks ago, it wasn’t immediately clear if anyone outside of AMD would actually…..

NVIDIA’s been keeping seriously busy this year so far with its RTX-related technologies, working to infuse either (or both) ray tracing and DLSS into as many games as possible. It’s funny, then, that one game we’ve been hearing about more than most the past few months is… a LEGO title. Now, ordinarily,…..

It’s beginning to look like this summer is going to be a busy one for games that take advantage of NVIDIA’s RTX technologies, with the company having just sent us a huge list of some of the updates and releases en route, some of which have flown right on under our radar…..

NVIDIA has just released its newest GeForce: RTX 3070 Ti. Compared to the non-Ti variant, the new RTX 3070 Ti offers some extra cores, and faster GDDR6X memory to deliver a healthy bandwidth boost. For this launch, we’re going to look at 4K and ultrawide gaming performance across all of AMD’s and NVIDIA’s current-gen cards.

Since the launch of AMD’s second-generation RDNA gaming graphics cards, we couldn’t help but wonder when the workstation side of the market would be blessed with AMD’s latest and greatest. Today, we have our answer. AMD claims that the new Radeon Pro W6800 is available right now, while the more modest W6600…..