Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

AMD FirePro W9100 professional GPU: first look review

Posted by Greg Corke - April 7, 2014

With its brand new 16GB ultra high-end FirePro W9100 GPU AMD shows it is just as serious about compute as it is 3D graphics AMD’s brand new ultra high-end GPU,…

Free UK trial to test out remote delivery of CAD applications

Posted by Greg Corke - April 8, 2014

If you’re a CAD user or developer and want to dip your toes into remote CAD on demand you may well be interested in a free trial being held by…

HP Z Turbo Drive: workstation-class PCIe SSDs go mainstream

Posted by Greg Corke - April 10, 2014

The HP Z Turbo Drive herald the arrival of PCI Express SSD storage in mainstream workstations HP is changing the face of mainstream workstation storage by offering a new PCI…

AMD offering 50% off FirePro W9100, W8000 and W7000 for one off company purchases

Posted by Greg Corke - April 17, 2014

Qualfying companies can get their hands on a single ultra high-end FirePro W9100 for the crazy price of £1,200 The AMD FirePro W9100 may have only been launched a week…

Free deep dive guide into 3D graphics for virtual desktops

Posted by Greg Corke - April 24, 2014

The report describes five different 3D graphics for virtual desktop concepts in detail. The picture above gives an overview of the concepts. TeamRGE, a collective of Remote Graphics Experts, has…

Supercharge your workstation with an OCZ RevoDrive 350 SSD

Posted by Greg Corke - April 25, 2014

Forget SATA: the future of workstation storage is coming from PCI Express OCZ’s RevoDrive 350 is a new workstation-class Solid State Drive (SSD) that uses the PCI Express interface instead…

Dell Precision M3800: materials R&D for the world’s thinnest mobile workstation

Posted by Greg Corke - May 27, 2014

The Dell M3800 achieves its soft touch finish with a 0.5mm layer of silicone overmoulded on top of a lightweight magnesium frame At DEVELOP3D, we’re big fans of the ultra…

Intel Core i7-4790K promises big performance boost for CAD

Posted by Greg Corke - June 3, 2014

Intel’s new unlocked 4th gen Intel Core processor codenamed ‘Devil’s Canyon’ Intel’s new ‘Haswell’-based Core i7 desktop processor has broken the 4GHz barrier, a speed that was only previously achievable…

OpenCL support added to NX Nastran – simulation with a GPU

Posted by Greg Corke - June 20, 2014

Performance benefits of a GPU over 24 CPU cores can be significant Siemens has added OpenCL (Open Compute Language) support to NX Nastran in the 9.1 release of its integrated…

AMD FirePro W8100: 3D graphics and compute in one card

Posted by Greg Corke - June 23, 2014

The AMD FirePro W8100, which features 8GB GDDR5 memory, can be used for high-end 3D graphics and GPU compute. AMD has unveiled the FirePro W8100, an 8GB professional GPU for…