Hardware

AMD rebrands while Nvidia gears up for extravaganza

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 14, 2008

AMD’s legendary ATI Fire GL brand, which was made famous by Diamond Multimedia ten years ago, is no more. AMD…

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Visualisation

NVIDIA launches GPU based ray tracing at Siggraph

Posted by Al Dean - August 14, 2008

NVIDIA has announced that it can calculate ray traced imagery on the fly using its GPUs, claiming an industry first.…

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Hardware

FirePro V5700 vs Quadro FX 1700 with Catia

Posted by Al Dean - November 11, 2008

DEVELOP3D’s hardware expert, Greg Corke, has been playing with graphics hardware again (it keeps him out of trouble). This time…

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Hardware

nVidia launches 4GB beast

Posted by Greg Corke - November 24, 2008

Nvidia has again upped the ante in the professional graphics sector with the launch of a new monster of a…

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Hardware

Autodesk takes lead in harnessing graphics power for CPU tasks

Posted by Greg Corke - June 24, 2009

Over the past couple of years there’s been an incredible amount of hype surrounding the use of GPUs (Graphics Processing…

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Visualisation

Do graphics cards hold the secret to photorealistic real time rendering?

Posted by Greg Corke - July 27, 2009

Last week I saw a very slick demo of a brand new rendering, animation and composition package called MachStudio Pro…

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News

Siggraph 2010 #1: promises, promises

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 28, 2010

Nvidia’s new 3D Vision Pro, one of the many new 3D technologies on show The show floor opened Tuesday in…

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News

Siggraph 2010 #2: GPU, CPU, HPU. Who cares?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 29, 2010

At Siggraph 2010, a not-so-subtle battle is taking place. It’s the battle of the graphics computing future. Depending on whom…

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News

Ansys uses Nvidia Tesla GPUs to accelerate engineering simulations on the desktop

Posted by Greg Corke - September 21, 2010

Back in May Nvidia told DEVELOP3D that there was going to be some big news later this year regarding some…

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News

Clouds gather for GPU-based rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - February 3, 2011

Bunkspeed’s Cloud Solution helps users publish interactive photorealistic scenes or 3D content to the Web. Image modelled in SolidWorks, rendered…

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