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Samsung’s $999 Galaxy Book S Becomes First Snapdragon 8cx Always-on Notebook
Qualcomm first announced its Snapdragon 8cx Always-on Windows PC platform back in December at its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, and at Computex some six months later, we were briefed on a lot more about what will make 8cx tick. At that event, we saw folks from UL on-hand to tout PCMark support,…..
Blender 2.80 Released, Enhances Countless Tools And Capabilities
It’s been a busy few months for the Blender Foundation, and at SIGGRAPH, the results of its hard work is being seen. Yesterday, we reported that NVIDIA and Blender have been working together the past few months to add RTX support to the open-source design suite. Currently, access to the feature requires…..
Maxon Announces Cinema 4D R21, Overhauled Version And Pricing Structure
SIGGRAPH is like a treasure trove for ProViz announcements. In fact, if you use a piece of design software that’s overdue for an update, chances are an announcement will happen at SIGGRAPH. We’ve already talked about NVIDIA RTX support coming to both Blender and KeyShot, NVIDIA’s enabling of 30-bit color support in…..
AMD Talks New Radeon ProRender Integrations, New Plugin Versions, And Coming Features
The past few SIGGRAPH conferences have seen the launch of some new hardware from AMD and NVIDIA, with AMD’s Radeon Pro series having been announced there a few years ago, and both the Radeon Pro WX 8200 and NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX launched last year – which happened to come soon after our interview with ray…..
Latest AMD Chipset Driver Fixes Destiny 2 Launch Issues, Hardware Fix To Come In Weeks Ahead
For Linux users and Destiny 2 fans alike, the launch of AMD’s latest-gen Ryzen CPUs has been anything but smooth. Thanks to a bug related to the hardware RDRAND instruction, systemd on some current Linux distros fails to run, while Destiny 2 refuses to open. Not long after the Ryzen 3000-series launch,…..
NVIDIA Enables 30-bit Color In Studio Drivers, Grows RTX Support In Creative Software
With SIGGRAPH 2019 kicking off, there will be plenty of creative and workstation news coming out over the next few days. We’ve already seen the start with announcements coming from Blender and Luxion, but NVIDIA made a surprise announcement. Last year, we saw the launch of the Quadro RTX series at SIGGRAPH,…..
Luxion Will Support NVIDIA’s RTX Ray Tracing And Denoising Acceleration In KeyShot 9
At last year’s SIGGRAPH, you couldn’t walk far into the halls without spotting some sort of support for NVIDIA’s RTX, which had only been announced at that show. Since then, a lot has happened, and for the better, with more and more software vendors opting their support. That even includes the gaming…..
NVIDIA’s RTX Ray Tracing And AI Denoising Technologies Are Coming To Blender
We’ve had the hunch for a couple of weeks now that the Blender Foundation would have an NVIDIA RTX-related announcement at SIGGRAPH, and lo and behold, it’s just happened. For those equipped with an RTX card and a code compiler, you could jump into testing today. In a new blog post, Blender’s…..
Listing For 10-core Intel ‘Comet Lake’ CPU Hits European Regulatory Database
There’s a lot of excitement flourishing through the CPU market right now. With its latest Ryzen 3000-series launch, AMD has built up a super-strong defense against the competition. As we found in our in-depth look at the 8-core 3700X and 12-core 3900X, the company is packing a lot of value into the…..
Corsair Acquires Origin PC, Purchase Will Not Affect Its Own Prebuilt Series
We’re beginning to get the impression that Corsair loves making surprise announcements, because yet again, the company has today caught many off-guard with a new purchase. This time, the company has acquired PC builder Origin PC, a company that used its ten years effectively to build itself as a premier brand, offering…..
Ubisoft Joins Blender’s Development Fund, Will Contribute To And Use Software In Animation Production
With the long-awaited 2.80 release of Blender soon upon us, to say that there’s a lot of excitement revolving around the free and open-source design suite would be an understatement. In a post last week, we talked about Blender’s RC2 build, which was released a couple of days ago. We also talked…..
Qualcomm Announces Top-end Snapdragon 855+ Along With Low-end 215 Series
Qualcomm has been keeping busy this summer so far, having announced multiple SoCs that will target future smartphones. Perhaps most interesting to performance lovers is the new Snapdragon 855+, an iteration on the original 855 that sees clock boosts hit both the CPU and GPU, delivering better gaming performance overall, and perhaps…..
Blender Soon To Release 2.8 RC2 Build, NVIDIA RTX Hints Dropped For The Weeks Ahead
With Blender 2.8’s release right around the corner, excitement is high, and so too are the number of questions about “When’s the final going to drop?!” Well, it’s coming soon, but the Blender Foundation doesn’t want to be hasty and push something out that’s less than ideal, especially when it’d take only…..
Intel Gives Updates On Its Graphics Integer Scaling Support
A couple of weeks ago, Intel made a surprise announcement that it would be soon introducing integer scaling support in its graphics driver. The move came as a direct response of requests from the community, and most notably those discussed as part of the company’s recent AYA (ask you anything). Integer scaling…..
AMD Offers Users ‘Boot Kits’ For Updating Their B450/X470 EFI For Ryzen 3000
When AMD launched its Ryzen 2000-series processors last spring, the company knew that some folks would end up having trouble installing its latest and greatest chips in previous generation motherboards. To help, the company would send you a temporary CPU to get the EFI update job done, and then you’d be able…..
AMD Rumored To Have EOL’d Its Top-end Radeon VII Gaming Graphics Card
Rumor has it that AMD has effectively ended focus on its highest-end consumer graphics card, Radeon VII. The card was first introduced in February, after a highly anticipated launch at CES. While targeted at gamers, it was clear from the get-go that it was even better for creators, with its super-strong compute…..
Quadro Experience Brings ShadowPlay, Ansel & FreeStyle To NVIDIA’s Pro GPUs
When NVIDIA introduced its GeForce Experience software in the spring of 2012, the company launched a platform which would house many neat graphics toys to come. That includes things like automatic configuration of your games, advanced recording of what’s on your screen, automatic driver downloads, and a really fun login system that…..
AMD’s RX 5700 & NVIDIA’s SUPER: What’s In Stock
It’s been a very busy past week for the graphics card world, with NVIDIA launching its updated GeForce SUPER models last week, and AMD following-up this past Sunday with its Navi-based RX 5700. With days having passed since both sets of cards officially hit the market, we decided to make the rounds…..
RTX 2060 & 2070 SUPER Available, Driver Updates, And FrameView
Announced just last week and recently reviewed, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and 2070 SUPER will be hitting store shelves and rolled out for wider release. Vendor options including custom coolers will also be made available from the usual companies such as ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, PNY, EVGA, and many more.. You can…..
AMD Lowers Radeon RX 5700 Series Pricing Ahead Of Launch
We’re only days away from one of the biggest launches AMD has ever put together, involving both its Zen 2-based processors, and Navi-based Radeon graphics cards. That’s not to mention the updated AM4 platform with X570, which debuts things like PCIe 4.0 to gamers and creators. It’s without question an exciting time…..
Need A Cheap Game To Play? Here’s Some Steam Summer Sale Suggestions
With summer beginning to make itself known for many, the time is right to figure out how to spend those evenings chilling after a day of being out in the sun (right?). Naturally, Steam’s annual Summer Sale comes at just about the right time, because no matter your budget, you’re going to…..
PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs Start Popping Up At Retail, Boasting ~5GB Read Speeds
As has been well publicized up to this point, AMD’s going to be launching both its Ryzen 3000-series processors and updated AM4 platform next week. With it is going to come the first opportunity for enthusiasts to jump on the next-generation of PCIe devices utilizing the 4.0 bus. As we explored in…..
AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX 3200, ProViz Optimization For $199
In our post about NVIDIA’s GeForce SUPER cards earlier today, we mentioned that the GPU release season is starting to heat-up. We didn’t expect anything ProViz-wise to come out ahead of SIGGRAPH, but since NVIDIA decided to rain on Radeon’s parade today, it seems like AMD wanted to have the last word,…..
NVIDIA Launches SUPER Variants Of RTX 2060 & 2070, 2080 SUPER To Come Soon
As many of us are settling into some beautiful weather, AMD and NVIDIA have decided to give us reason to stay indoors, with the release of some new graphics cards. AMD’s cards are coming next week, and in typical fashion, NVIDIA has decided to rain on Radeon’s well-publicized parade by launching its…..
WD & Toshiba Lose 6 Exabytes Of NAND Due To Power Outage
Power outages are a constant threat in our lives, sometimes striking at the most inopportune moment. We actually encountered this yesterday night, while two PCs were in full benchmark mode, and another was busy compiling performance data. In our case, the outage was inconvenient, especially on the office PC that had a…..