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Maxon Cinebench 2024 & Redshift GPU Rendering Performance

Rob Williams — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:40:46 +0000

Maxon has recently rolled out major updates to both its Cinebench and Redshift products, so we wanted to take a fresh look at GPU rendering performance in each with the help of AMD's and NVIDIA's current product stacks. While Redshift recently gained support for AMD Radeon, Intel, with its Arc series, becomes the odd one out.

Intel Arc Graphics Update: Boosted DX 11 Performance, Overhauled PresentMon

Rob Williams — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:00:55 +0000

In its latest quarterly Arc graphics update, Intel has released a new driver which can boost performance in DirectX 11 titles upwards of 19%. It also released a revamped version of its popular PresentMon performance analyzing tool, adding a valuable new metric to gauge how busy your GPU is keeping relative to the frametimes.

Blender 3.6 Performance Deep-dive: GPU Rendering & Viewport Performance

Rob Williams — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:00:34 +0000

Blender 3.6 has recently launched, and from a performance perspective, it's one of the biggest releases in a while. Both AMD and Intel gain ray tracing acceleration to render your scene faster, and other subtle improvements have been made as well, including the speed of viewport shader compiling. Let's dig in!

A Look At NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 8GB Rendering Performance

Rob Williams — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:00:05 +0000

The latest entrant to join NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace GeForce lineup is the RTX 4060. Priced at $299, the 8GB RTX 4060 targets those who've been waiting to upgrade from one of the predecessor cards, and wants to take advantage of the latest GeForce feature set - including niceties such as DLSS 3.

Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Mobile Platform

Rob Williams — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:00:43 +0000

Qualcomm has today launched the newest iteration of its entry-level mobile SoC: Snapdragon 4 Gen 2. With Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 having launched just last September (alongside Snapdragon 6 Gen 2), this latest release might be one of the quickest successive launches we’ve seen from the company. Snapdragon 4 caters to users.....

AMD Launches Ryzen PRO 7000 Series Mobile & Desktop Platform

Rob Williams — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 13:00:07 +0000

AMD has today announced the launch of its latest generation Ryzen PRO desktop and notebook platform, featuring Ryzen PRO 7040 processors. This launch brings the Zen 4 architecture to AMD’s business-oriented Ryzen platform, providing more performance, better efficiency, improved battery-life, and the introduction of the Ryzen AI engine. Recent years have proven.....

Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard & MX Master 3S Mouse Review

Tom Roeder — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:00:59 +0000

Logitech's MX Master series of peripherals have long been well-regarded for their high-quality design, and excellent feature sets. In this review, we're taking a look at some of the latest MX Master options: the wireless MX Mechanical keyboard, and (also wireless) MX Master 3S mouse.

Intel Launches Sleek Single-Slot Arc Pro A60 Workstation Graphics Card

Rob Williams — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:05:59 +0000

We’re a little late on covering this one, but wanted to make sure we did, because for multiple reasons, it’s an interesting launch. Up to this point, we haven’t heard too much about Intel’s Arc Pro series, aimed at workstation, despite two models having been available since last year. Today, a third.....

AMD Radeon PRO W7800 & W7900 Workstation Performance Review

Rob Williams — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:20:33 +0000

AMD's Radeon PRO series of workstation GPUs has just been augmented with the first models infused with the company's RDNA3 architecture. We're taking a look at the high-end 32GB Radeon PRO W7800, as well as the even higher-end 48GB Radeon PRO W7900, across a wide-range of production workloads.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 8GB Creator Review

Rob Williams — Wed, 24 May 2023 13:00:36 +0000

AMD's third RDNA3-based Radeon has just launched in the form of the RX 7600, an 8GB offering priced at $269. AMD claims that this card targets "high" 1080p gaming, but for our first look, we're going to delve into its performance across creator workloads, including encoding and rendering.