Workstations

Review: AMD Radeon Pro OpenGL driver

Posted by Greg Corke - February 9, 2023

AMD’s new professional graphics driver can deliver a significant 3D performance boost in DS Solidworks and other OpenGL-based applications

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Workstations

AMD boosts performance in Solidworks and other 3D tools

Posted by Greg Corke - September 29, 2022

New Radeon Pro GPU driver increases 3D performance in Solidworks and other OpenGL applications

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Visualisation

Solidworks demos viewport ray tracing with Vulkan

Posted by Greg Corke - February 10, 2021

Dassault Systèmes working with AMD on a new 'Vulkan' graphics engine for Solidworks

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News

Nvidia launches Fermi-based Quadro graphics cards (plus Quadro 5000 benchmark)

Posted by Greg Corke - July 27, 2010

Nvidia’s new Quadro 5000 features 2.5GB GDDR5 memory It’s been a long time coming, but today at Siggraph 2010 Nvidia…

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Product Design

IT standards – shake it up!

Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 7, 2011

When developing new IT standards, a committee-based approach is important for the greater good, but having multiple competing standards can…

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News

Siggraph 2011 #1: Feeling good in Vancouver

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 10, 2011

The majestic North Shore Mountains, the backdrop for Siggraph 2011, Vancouver It’s relatively easy to complain about the Siggraph conference…

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News

SIGGRAPH 2012 #1: OpenGL 4.3 compute shaders to run simulation code in the graphics pipeline

Posted by Greg Corke - August 6, 2012

With the introduction of compute shaders to OpenGL 4.3 at SIGGRAPH 2012 today, Neil Trevett, president of the Khronos Group,…

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News

AMD unveils new FirePro GPUs and seeks professional CAD apps for its Mantle graphics API

Posted by Greg Corke - August 12, 2014

Today at Siggraph, AMD unveiled four new cards to complete its next generation family of professional FirePro GPUs based on…

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News

SPECviewperf benchmark extended to measure 3D graphics performance for virtualised workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - February 26, 2015

SPECviewperf 12’s Catia viewset The latest 12.0.2 release of the SPECviewperf benchmark extends performance measurement from physical to virtualised workstation…

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News

AMD unveils hardware-virtualised GPU product line

Posted by Greg Corke - February 5, 2016

AMD gave its hardware virtualised Multiuser GPU (MxGPU) technology a first public airing in September 2015 and has now unveiled…

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