by Bob Cramblitt Views of SPEC/GWPG members. Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with … [Read more...] about A 5-year vision for workstation graphics performance
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Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Knowing how you stand up to the competition is critical. Last December, we told you about ray tracing startup, Nebula, in Montreal and the founder, Yann Clotioloman Yéo. The company has developed a physically based, unbiased stand-alone renderer with realtime DirectX 12 preview written in C++. It runs on Windows 10 (64-bit) and requires SSE4 to run. The program uses AMD … [Read more...] about Nebula benchmarks the ray tracing competitors
Benchmarking ray tracing
Ray tracing, as everyone knows, is a simple algorithm that can totally consume a processor. But how much a given processor is consumed is an unanswerable question because it depends upon the scene and of course the processor itself. So, approximations have to be made, and parameters fixed to get a consistent comparison. Then it's left to the buyer to extrapolate the results to … [Read more...] about Benchmarking ray tracing
AMD’s Next Horizon dawns with 7-nm Epyc Rome Zen 2 processor
Alex Herrera takes stock of AMD’s latest hardware introductions and notes the company has an edge on Intel and a serious play against Nvidia in the data center. If Las Vegas placed odds on what news AMD would break in San Francisco at its Next Horizon, the heavy favorites would have been clear: the official announcements of both Zen 2 processor technology and the first 7-nm … [Read more...] about AMD’s Next Horizon dawns with 7-nm Epyc Rome Zen 2 processor
Keyshot update enhances 3D CAD support
Luxion still betting on CPU processing power in a field becoming dominated by GPU rendering. The most recent revision of Luxion KeyShot for 3D rendering and animation focuses on expanded support for import libraries required by the users of 3D design tools for product development. Extended support in this release updates KeyShot’s support for current releases of Autodesk … [Read more...] about Keyshot update enhances 3D CAD support