Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

Review: Nvidia’s CAD-focused Kepler Quadro professional graphics cards (GPUs): K600, K2000 &

Posted by Greg Corke - March 6, 2013

Nvidia’s new Quadro K600: designed for entry-level 3D CAD: tested here inside Scan’s new entry-level 3XS GW-MT15 workstation When the Nvidia Quadro K5000 (4GB GDDR5) shipped at the tail end…

AMD slashes price of FirePro GPUs for one off purchases

Posted by Greg Corke - March 8, 2013

Cheaper than chips: with AMD’s 50% off offer UK customers can pick up a FirePro W5000 for under £200 and a W7000 for under £300 AMD is looking to steal…

SPECapc releases brand new benchmark to test workstations running SolidWorks 2013

Posted by Greg Corke - March 14, 2013

Just one of ten new models sourced from the SolidWorks community for the new SPECapc for SolidWorks 2013 benchmark SolidWorks users will soon have a new resource for assessing the…

Nvidia GRID VCA delivers virtual 3D CAD workstations on demand

Posted by Greg Corke - March 20, 2013

Nvidia GRID VCA is designed to offer a 3D CAD workstation class experience from a standard laptop or PC Nvidia today unveiled its GRID VCA (visual computing appliance), designed to…

Boston and SuperMicro unveil Nvidia Quadro Kepler workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - March 31, 2013

Boston has teamed up with Supermicro UK to launch a new series of ‘Ready-To-Go’ high performance workstations based on the latest Nvidia Quadro Kepler technology. The workstations are designed specifically…

Dell launches free workstation ‘Performance Optimizer’ tool

Posted by Greg Corke - May 2, 2013

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oN4RV_vzWjA Dell is looking to add more value to its Dell Precision workstation family by including a dedicated performance optimising tool in all of its machines. The Dell Precision Performance…

Dell extends Precision workstation line at the low and high-end

Posted by Greg Corke - May 16, 2013

The new compact Dell Precision T1700 SFF, pictured alongside two 24-inch Dell UltraSharp U2413 displays Dell has launched two new CAD-focused workstations at opposite ends of the spectrum: an entry-level…

SIGGRAPH 2013 #1: SPEC’s new workstation benchmarks

Posted by Greg Corke - July 23, 2013

The SPECviewperf 3D graphics benchmark is set for its biggest overhaul in 18 years. Image: SPECviewperf 11 CATIA dataset. SPEC’s Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) used Siggraph 2013 to…

SIGGRAPH 2013 #2: Nvidia unveils 12GB Quadro K6000 GPU

Posted by Greg Corke - July 23, 2013

With the Quadro K6000 Nissan is now able to load nearly complete vehicle models into RTT Deltagen and ‘have stunning photorealism almost instantly’ Nvidia has unveiled the mother of all…

SIGGRAPH 2013 #4: SPEC unveils Siemens NX 8.5 benchmark

Posted by Greg Corke - July 24, 2013

The new SPECapc NX 8.5 benchmark includes four models ranging in size from approximately 87MB to 347MB. So it turns out non-profit organisation SPEC isn’t quite finished with its SIGGRAPH…