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Maxon Seeks AMD Radeon Users To Help Test New Redshift Renderer Alpha

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:54 +0200

With its new Radeon PRO 22.Q2 driver, which we wrote about yesterday, AMD introduced much-anticipated support of Maxon’s Redshift rendering engine. Until Radeon support greeted Apple computers a couple of years ago, Redshift had been exclusive to NVIDIA’s CUDA API. With this move, we get our first taste of non-NVIDIA GPU action.....

NVIDIA’s GeForce 516.40 Driver Adds Support For Five RTX Games, Including Resident Evil & ICARUS

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:30:08 +0200

NVIDIA has just released its latest “Game Ready” GeForce driver, versioned 516.40, adding support for a handful of RTX-powered games, as well as a bunch more for use with GeForce Experience’s optimized settings. NVIDIA uses this opportunity to remind the world that there are now over 250 games and applications which utilize.....

Intel Launches Arc A380 Discrete Desktop GPU In China

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:15:18 +0200

When Intel launched its first Arc discrete GPUs in late March, the company’s entire focus was on notebooks, and the Arc 3-series in particular. In the time since then, availability of equipped notebooks hasn’t seemed to improve much (or at all) on these shores, but the story is a bit different for.....

AMD Releases Radeon PRO 22.Q2 Driver, Bringing Support For Maxon’s Redshift

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:43:01 +0200

As we covered a couple of months ago, a major shift has happened in the Maxon Redshift world: AMD support was being added. With the release of the Radeon Enterprise 22.Q2 driver today, that support has officially landed, and honestly, we couldn’t be more excited about it. Redshift is a fantastic renderer,.....

Corsair Announces Its First Gaming Notebook: VOYAGER a1600

Mon, 23 May 2022 22:50:55 +0200

For as long as it’s existed, Corsair has wanted to cater to gamers in every way possible, whether it’s by offering quality mice and keyboards, or even liquid cooling and power. In recent years, we’ve seen the company acquire some others that perfectly fit into the gamer ecosystem, including SCUF for gamepads,.....

AMD Announces Zen 4 Processors, AM5 Platform & New Notebooks At Computex 2022

Mon, 23 May 2022 21:45:35 +0200

While there are far fewer people attending in person this year, Computex has officially kicked off, and it’s already led to some intriguing announcements. So far, it seems to be AMD that’s hit the ground running the fastest, and perhaps even the hardest. The company’s major focus this year is on notebooks,.....

Cache-Rich: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Workstation Performance Review

Fri, 20 May 2022 21:20:24 +0200

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.

Blender 3.1 – How Fast Are GPUs in Cycles X, Eevee & Viewport?

Thu, 12 May 2022 17:00:13 +0200

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.

AMD Introduces Three Refreshed RDNA2 Radeons: RX 6650 XT, RX 6750 XT & RX 6950 XT

Tue, 10 May 2022 15:00:39 +0200

Earlier this year, we saw AMD plug some remaining gaps in its RDNA2-based Radeon lineup, with the help of the low-end RX 6500 XT and RX 6400. Today, with warm summer months approaching in much of the world, the company clearly wanted to feel a little refreshed, as we have three speed-bumped.....

Intel’s Arc A370M Tested, Trades Blows With NVIDIA’s Mobile GeForce RTX 3050

Mon, 09 May 2022 20:15:13 +0200

As we covered back in March, Intel’s first Arc-based graphics cards have arrived – but only in mobile form, so far. From the get-go, we knew that it’d take a bit of time for the first notebooks equipped with Arc to actually hit the market, and around mid-April, we began to see.....

SCUF And Corsair Team Up With Coca-Cola To Release Limited Quantity Peripherals

Mon, 02 May 2022 23:08:16 +0200

SCUF is no stranger to partnerships, but its latest is undoubtedly the most carbonated one it’s ever had. This latest team-up is with Coca-Cola, which today launches a new soda to market called Byte. The company’s pushing pixels hard with this one, going as far to call it “pixel flavored”. We’re not.....

Embracer Group To Acquire Square Enix Montreal, Eidos Montreal And Crystal Dynamics

Mon, 02 May 2022 22:38:33 +0200

There have been some major acquisitions roaring through the gaming industry these past few years, and it appears that the onslaught of purchases isn’t going to stop until everyone is acquired. Today, it’s been announced that Embracer Group is going to lift Eidos Montreal, Square Enix Montreal, and Crystal Dynamics, off of.....

VESA Introduces Certification For Adaptive-Sync Displays

Mon, 02 May 2022 21:55:20 +0200

Since the introduction of NVIDIA’s G-SYNC in late 2013, the benefits of improved frame syncing has become obvious – smooth gameplay without tearing is easy to like. Not too long after NVIDIA ushered G-SYNC in, AMD began pushing FreeSync, which itself graced many a monitor before long. Today, it’s not difficult to.....

Maxon Announces That Redshift Has (Finally) Gained Support For AMD Radeon GPUs

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:57:50 +0200

Maxon has just announced an update involving something we’ve been waiting years to hear: support for AMD’s Radeon GPUs is being added to the company’s popular Redshift rendering software. For almost the entirety of Redshift’s life, support has exclusively revolved around NVIDIA’s CUDA (and OptiX), with support for Apple’s Metal added just.....

Craving A Steam Deck Performance Boost? Just Add A Discrete Graphics Card!

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:48:57 +0200

For a handful (no pun) of reasons, Valve’s Steam Deck is a seriously cool product. It enables quality gaming while on-the-go, and unlike many devices competing for the same consumer dollar, it provides a much more open platform that can allow users to get creative. Should they chose to, users could even.....

Adobe Supercharges Premiere Pro And After Effects With Frame.io Collaboration

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:16:36 +0200

Adobe has today rolled out a number of big updates to its Premiere Pro and After Effects tools, with collaboration being one of the major focal points. With Frame.io, Adobe is allowing multiple users to effectively work on the same video project, with the ability to instantly share captured video, comment on.....

Intel Launches First Arc GPUs For Mobile, Details Architecture & Features

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:00:44 +0200

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.

Intel Launches ‘World’s Fastest Desktop Processor’: The 5.5GHz Core i9-12900KS

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:10:06 +0200

As we discovered in our look at Intel’s 12th-gen Core processors last fall, the company proved that it knew how to handle the renewed competition it was facing from AMD. Ultimately, the Alder Lake chips impressed us a lot more than we were expecting, and while the added ‘E’ (efficiency) cores left.....

NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, Offers More Cores & Higher Bandwidth

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 21:40:59 +0200

When NVIDIA launched its GeForce RTX 3090 in 2020, it was hard to imagine that the company would find a way to release an even higher-end SKU – even though we knew that some cores were being left on the table. Well, after enjoying a long stay in Rumormill, the RTX 3090.....

SPECapc Releases CPU & GPU Benchmark For Autodesk’s 3ds Max 2020

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:55:44 +0200

SPEC has just released the latest iteration of its comprehensive 3ds Max benchmark, which covers a wide range of testing angles, and includes measurements for both the CPU and GPU. This update is the first we’ve seen since the 2015 launch, and while many of the tests remain identical, they’ve been updated.....