AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080

AMD has launched its competitor to Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. The Radeon RX Vega 64 is based on AMD’s Vega GPU architecture and is the company’s first high-end consumer GPU to compete with Nvidia’s Pascal card lineup. The RX Vega 64 is available in air-cooled and ...

2017-08-20

NVIDIA Announces Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation Software

Today NVIDIA announced new virtualization software capabilities that turn Tesla GPU-accelerated servers into powerful workstations, Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation Software (vDWS). This new software aims to deliver organizations with the resources needed for demanding enterprise-wide virtual workspaces. NVIDIA is also announcing improvements to its NVIDIA GRID vPC for mobile workstations. Workstation Software (vDWS). ...

2017-08-18

NVIDIA Announces External GPU

Do you have slow rendering times on your laptop? Looking for a portable solution that will allow you to run CFD simulations on the go? Are you thinking of tossing that woefully underpowered laptop out the window? If the answer to any of those questions is “yes,” then NVIDIA may have ...

2017-08-18

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 ...