Archives for Nvidia
Bunkspeed moves on with iray technology
Bunkspeed has found a replacement rendering future with mental images’ iray technology. The company has announced its new and upcoming Bunkspeed SHOT.
Tidbits: Autodesk University, Nvidia Quadro and next Mac Pros
Mac CAD and 3D News: In Tidbits today we have news on Apple’s next Mac Pros getting exclusive use of Intel’s new six-core Xeons; we also cover a report out on the Web about Nvidia Quadros at Autodesk University and a link to a Parallels vs Fusion article
Khronos demonstrates OpenCL momentum at SC09
Khronos Group is demonstrating OpenCL 1.0 progress at international high-performance computing conference — makes major announcement about industry adoption of key standard
Ars reviews GTX 285 Mac GPU card – interesting results
Ars technica has reviewed the newish Nvidia GTX 285 graphics card on an 8-core Mac Pro, pitting it against ATI’s Radeon 4870 GPU and looking at professional OpenGL-based 3D apps. The results are very interesting.
EVGA Corp. brings new highend GPU to Mac
EVGA expands Mac Pro Graphics Card Options with new 1 GB GPU card with the fastest memory bandwidth yet available on the Mac platform.
Mac Pros get new workstation GPU option
Nvidia delivers latest Quadro FX 4800 advanced workstation GPU to the Mac market at NAB event.
Tidbits: VolView 3.0, OpenGL 3.0 and Rhino news
Mac CAD and 3D News: Kitware announces VolView 3.0 for medical 3D imagery and volume rendering, Nvidia puts out support for OpenGL 3.0 in new drivers, and we have some links to Rhino video tutorials.
Apple’s OpenCL released as ratified 1.0 spec at SIGGRAPH Asia
Khronos Group releases OpenCL 1.0 and OpenVG 1.1 – Khronos Group releases ratified OpenCL 1.0 Specification at SIGGRAPH Asia.
Tidbits: Nvidia, Cheetah 3D, Dosch and Vectorworks
Mac CAD and 3D News Tidbits: Nvidia redefines highend Quadro GPUs for small form factors, Cheetah 3D launches contest, Shook Kelley wins AIA North Carolina and Dosch releases new 3D content
Apple In Love with Nvidia? Maybe…
Apple Hearts Nvidia? Maybe…Perhaps this is less about Apple helping to save games and more about Apple being classic Apple.
Commentary: Apple now Rich – Should it Buy Autodesk?
Well…technically this is just a cash thing. But even by that measure that is an impressive feat for a company that was struggling for its very life just 11 years ago. With its recent record quarterly profits Apple now has more than $25.5 billion in cash, more than Microsoft.
Rome Reborn 1.0 – powered by Maya, Max and Nvidia
Shown at Siggraph 2008 this year, Rome Reborn 1.0 is a Tremendous Achievement in Architecture, Archeology, Urban Design and Computing
Tidbits: ArchiCAD, Vectorworks and Nvidia
Mac CAD and 3D News – News from Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD, Nemetschek North America and Nvidia
SIG: Nvidia’s Siggraph Announcements – RoundUp
Nvidia had a slew of great announcements at SIGGRAPH 2008 this year and below are summary highlights
Commentary: Snow Leopard in Q2 2009
From the looks of comments made by an Nvidia rep in a discussion with AppleInsider today about CUDA versus OpenCL, it appears that Apple with its OpenCL-based Snow Leopard operating system will not be ready to release that OS until the second quarter (Q2) of 2009. From the AppleInsider report:
“While the OpenCL spec is announced [...]