Unreal Engine 4.16 - Support for Nintendo

Epic Games released Unreal Engine 4.16, and the feature list includes new tools for 3D artists and performance enhancements for mobile and console developers. UE 4.16 also introduces full-featured support for the Nintendo Switch. The latest version of Unreal Engine (UE4) includes a handful of newly introduced rendering features. Environment artists now have access to ...

2017-06-16

New Apple iMac Pro with Xeon CPU and Vega GPU

Apple has launched several new desktop and laptop computers at WWDC. The new Apple iMac Pro, claimed to be the most powerful Mac ever, was probably the star of the show. It is, of course, an AiO and it is based around a chassis holding a 27-inch Retina 5K display. What really ...

2017-06-09

ILM - 40 years of Lucas pioneering FX-wing

Star Wars New Hope @ 40 In the 40 years since the release of the original Star Wars, special effects have changed beyond recognition. Computers – critical to today's generation of Star Wars successors – were relatively rare during the mid 1970s. Expensive and huge, they were the preserve of governments, universities ...

2017-06-05

NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX Max-Q: High-End Gaming Ultrabook

This morning as part of their Computex keynote, NVIDIA CEO announced a new initiative for high-end gaming laptop design. Called GeForce GTX Max-Q, NVIDIA is undertaking their own Ultrabook project of sorts, encouraging partners to develop thinner and lighter high performance gaming laptops, giving them better tools to do so, and then bundling it ...

2017-06-02

NVIDIA AI for image noise reduction

Much of the keynote address by NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang focused on machine learning and applications that weren’t central to the visual effects and post industry. However, there was one demonstration which showed how this tech can be used to lead to much faster resolution of ray traced ...

2017-05-19

Nvidia Tesla V100 with Volta GV100

A few hours ago at the GTC 2017 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the wraps off the Tesla V100 accelerator. This launch marks several milestones for Nvidia, not least the introduction of its first Volta architecture GPU based product. As those familiar with Nvidia's nomenclature will be aware, the first product based upon ...

2017-05-12

V-Ray on GPU?

Presentation topics include ‘Breaking the GPU Memory Barrier,’ ‘High-End Production Features,’ and a tech preview of a new Hybrid Renderer. LOS ANGELES -- Computer graphics technology developer Chaos Group is set to present several major advances to V-Ray’s GPU rendering capabilities ...

2017-05-12

Radeon Pro Duo - Polaris

AMD's first Radeon Pro Duo graphics card brought the power of twin Fiji GPUs and 8GB of HBM RAM to bear on professional graphics tasks just under a year ago. Today, the company is updating the Pro Duo with twin Polaris chips and 32GB of GDDR5 RAM on board. Going ...

2017-04-29

Apple GPU

Apple is building its own GPU architecture, but why? Rather than being motivated by simple cost savings, evidence points to the timing of a significant technical leap forward that could be as big of an advance as iOS was ten years ago. Apple has been reportedly working on a GPU project for at ...

2017-04-22

GPU and CPU renderers price comparison

We compared the prices of commercial renderers on the market - free software are NOT included in the table. Render Permanent license Rental license Arion render (GPU) 633,- USD - Arnold render 1220,- USD 372,- USD (minimal rental price) Corona 479,- USD 26,- USD (1 month) FurryBall RT (...

2017-04-07