Let’s Render Blender On Consumer Cards From AMD And NVIDIA
One possible path to get yourself a new GPU is to convince your employer that you need it for your job. The chances are you would argue for NVIDIA as several rendering…
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Tag: Blender
Ton Roosendaal Proposes New Blender Release Schedule
Starting with the release of Blender 2.8 from last July, the Blender Foundation has put the 3D production suite onto a three-month release cycle. It has worked for 2.81 and 2.82, so…
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #552 – Tempered Glass Cases, Ice Lake SKUs
Join us this week for a review of two tempered glass PC cases from NZXT and SilverStone, a look at the official Ice Lake SKUs from Intel, new RTX support and GeForce…
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RTX Support for Blender Announced at SIGGRAPH 2019
The Blender Foundation has just announced RTX support for Blender at SIGGRAPH 2019. The patch was created by Patrick Mours of NVIDIA in close collaboration with the Blender Institute. Currently,...
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Epic Games Donates $1.2 Million USD to Blender Foundation
Epic Games has been handing out grants to people and organizations that in some way contribute to their Unreal Engine ecosystem. The Blender Foundation is the latest awardee, which received...
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Blender 2.80 Release Candidate Now Available
Blender 2.80 Release Candidate is now available on the official website. This version introduces a massive change in user experience (both visually and functionally). Unless a showstopper bug appears, the...
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AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 Review – Pro Vega
Professional graphics cards are a segment of the industry that can look strange to gamers and PC enthusiasts. From the outside, it appears that businesses are paying more for…
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Blender Benchmark / Blender Open Data Announced
The Blender Foundation is wrapping up development on Blender 2.8, “The Workflow Update”. We have been following it for a while, but today’s announcement caught me by surprise: a benchmark database. It…
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Blender 2.8 Expected Release Schedule Published
The next dot-version of Blender, 2.8, is the most exciting update (in my opinion) since BMesh (n-gons) was added in 2.63. It is focused on workflow patterns and interface changes, but this…
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Blender Foundation Releases Blender 2.79a
Normally the “a” patch of Blender arrives much closer to the number release – about a month or so. Five months after 2.79, however, the Blender Foundation has released 2.79a. It...
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Blender Conference Recap
About a week ago, the Blender Foundation held their annual Blender Conference. The event was sponsored by AMD, same as last year, who is putting quite a bit of time and money…
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Blender Foundation Releases Blender 2.79
The latest version of Blender, 2.79, makes a few significant changes, especially for users with AMD GPUs. Their main rendering engine, Cycles, has now reached feature-parity on OpenCL and CUDA. While those…
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Blender Grease Pencil Preview
Blender 2.8x is being dubbed “Workflow” by the Blender Foundation, and 2D animators are included in that. The 3D suite has included a tool, called “Grease Pencil”, for quite some…
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Blender glTF 2.0 Exporter Published
As we reported about a month ago, The Khronos Group has finalized glTF 2.0, which is a 3D format designed for whole scenes. Since then, Khronos have...
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AMD Releases Radeon ProRender for Blender and SolidWorks
AMD has released a free ray-tracing engine for Blender, as well as Maya, 3D Studio Max, and SolidWorks, called Radeon ProRender. It uses a physically-based workflow, which allows multiple materials...
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Blender 2.8 Progress: Viewport and Cycles
The Blender Foundation is currently working on two different branches of their popular 3D suite, Blender 2.79 and Blender 2.8. We have discussed the former quite a bit, which is...
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Interesting Blender Updates for Upcoming Versions
The Blender Foundation and volunteers have been quite busy, especially over the last few weeks. Two major changes that are prepared for Blender 2.79: near-parity between CUDA and OpenCL, and...
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Podcast #437 – EVGA iCX, Zen Architecture, Optane, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #437 - 02/16/17 Join us for EVGA iCX, Zen Architechure, Intel Optane, new NVIDIA and AMD driver releases, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can...
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