Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

PNY introduces VR Ready 15.6-inch mobile workstation

Posted by Greg Corke - July 31, 2017

PNY Technologies, the firm that manufactures Nvidia graphics cards among other products, has entered the mobile workstation market with the launch of two machines powered by the latest Nvidia Quadro…

Nvidia brings pro VR and GPU rendering to standard notebooks

Posted by Greg Corke - July 31, 2017

Nvidia’s eGPU solution can house any one of four powerful Quadro GPUs Nvidia has launched a new solution that allows users to plug in a powerful professional desktop Quadro GPU…

Nvidia uses AI to deliver 8x speed boost to ray trace rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - July 31, 2017

Nvidia takes a ‘noisy’ ray traced image and uses AI to predict what it would look like after thousands of passes Nvidia is looking to rewrite the ray trace rendering…

Epic Games optimises viz and VR workflow from CAD to Unreal Engine

Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2017

Scene imported via Datasmith (about 8 minutes) into Unreal Engine and baked, no further refinement. Statistics: 200 objects, 1.6M polygons, 90 FPS. Image courtesy of A-VR Epic Games is looking…

HP launches workstation backpack for untethered pro VR

Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2017

HP has launched the world’s first professional wearable VR workstation, the HP Z VR Backpack G1, a compact machine that doubles as a desktop, runs off batteries in VR backpack…

HP launches global design project to imagine life on Mars

Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2017

Is there life on Mars? Yes – 1 million humans to be precise. From buildings and vehicles, to farms and clothing, what could life on Mars look like to support…

Dell unveils new Skylake-SP Xeon workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2017

The new Precision workstations feature ‘FlexBays’ that support a range of modules, including one that offers hot swap access to M.2 NVMe SSDs from the front of the machine Dell…

AMD set to change the rendering game with $999 16-core Ryzen Threadripper CPU

Posted by Greg Corke - August 10, 2017

AMD has launched Ryzen Threadripper, a new family of high-end desktop CPUs which feature up to 16 cores and cost under $1,000. This is massive news for users of rendering…

Samsung boosts performance of external SSD

Posted by Greg Corke - August 15, 2017

The blue model comes in 250GB and 500GB capacities while the deep black comes in 1TB and 2TB capacities Samsung has squeezed another 100MB/sec out of its external USB Solid…

Lenovo unveils new Xeon Scalable-based ThinkStation workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - September 12, 2017

ThinkStation P920 Lenovo has released details of two new high-end workstations that are due to ship in late October. The ThinkStation P920 and ThinkStation P720 feature two Intel Xeon Scalable…