Able to cut processing time by over 50%, the second-generation SmartSSD, Samsung will be able to easily address increasing customer needs in the database and video transcoding sectors. The pioneering computational storage drive from Samsung has reached a new frontier, as the company announces it has successfully developed a second generation of SmartSSD. Since its development in 2020 through the joint efforts of Samsung and AMD, the first-generation SmartSSD is being supplied to global IT companies including video communications platform providers. The first-generation SmartSSD was recognized ..read more

A certification badge will be associated with some of the workstations already recommended by Puget Systems, to make it easy for professionals to get an optimal workflow experience. Following the recent news that Puget Systems will have, next July, workstations based on AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series, it’s now time to announce the ‘Puget Labs Certification Program’. With this announcement, the Puget Systems Labs team will be signifying select Recommended Systems, which are heavily based on Puget Labs testing and expertise, with a certification badge and brief text description on h ..read more

Having completed extensive benchmark testing of the Threadripper PRO 5000, performed in real-world content creation applications, Puget Systems will begin shipping its custom workstations in July. One of the few vendors with early access to the new Threadrippers from AMD, Puget Systems has now released the results of extensive testing of the Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series across multiple platforms, including tests for peak performance for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Davinci Resolve, and many more critical applications. This was only possible due to Puget Systems close working relations ..read more

Introduced as Intel’s solution for both gamers and content creators, the new Arc-A graphics products are, the company says, “more than another piece of hardware in your PC” they are “your portal to play and create” on PC. Intel ended March 2022 with the announcement that the company is more ambitious when it comes to graphics, as it first suggested back in August 2021, when the product was first announced. Intel highlighted now the Arc A-Series mobile graphics family, the first laptops with Arc GPUs, and the Arc graphics platform of hardware, software and services that will enable high-perform ..read more

AMD announced this month that several new plug-ins are now available for its fast and easy rendering engine, AMD Radeon ProRender. Optimized for AMD Radeon PRO and Radeon RX graphics cards, AMD Radeon ProRender is built on open standards and works on any GPU that supports OpenCL 1.2 and on any CPU. It uses open industry standards to enable creative professionals to produce incredible photorealistic images. Earlier this year, AMD released a new version of the AMD Radeon ProRender 2 SDK on GPUOpen which added many new features such as Cryptomatte AOVs, Deformation Motion Blur, Subsurface Scatter ..read more

Intel is back on discrete graphics: the first generation of Intel Arc products, will feature hardware-based ray tracing, artificial intelligence-driven super sampling, and offer full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate. Intel revealed this month the brand for its upcoming consumer high-performance graphics products: Intel Arc. The Arc brand will cover hardware, software and services, and will span multiple hardware generations, with the first generation, based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, code-named Alchemist (formerly known as DG2). Intel also revealed the code names of future generations und ..read more

What’s 23% faster in DaVinci Resolve or 84% faster when running Octane X? A Mac Pro with the new modules based on AMD’s Radeon Pro W6000-Series GPU, now available in three variants. If you want a big performance boost to your Mac Pro’s graphics horsepower, then look no further: Apple has just introduced three new graphics card modules for Mac Pro, — ideal for demanding GPU-heavy applications like Octane X, DaVinci Resolve, Cinema 4D and Final Cut Pro. The new modules are based on AMD’s next-generation graphics processor — the Radeon Pro W6000-Series GPU — and comes in three variants ..read more

Here it is: the fastest AMD RDNA 2 workstation graphics card ever developed, delivering up to 79 percent faster performance than the previous generation, able to tackle large complex tasks with ease. Built on award-winning AMD RDNA 2 architecture, the foundation of next generation, high-powered PCs, laptops and many of today’s game consoles, according to AMD, the AMD Radeon PRO W6000 series workstation graphics is here. The new product line features the AMD Radeon PRO W6800, the fastest AMD RDNA workstation graphics card ever, according  to AMD Performance Labs testing. The new product li ..read more

With the next wave of AMD Ryzen processors and the all-new Zen 3 architecture, AMD is taking its PC gaming and content creation leadership to new heights. Discover more on October 8. October is AMD’s month, and it starts on October 8th, the day when, according to the company, a new journey begins. On that day the company reveals its AMD Ryzen, touted as “a complete package of performance and technology leadership”. The company says that “with the next wave of AMD Ryzen processors and the all-new Zen 3 architecture, AMD is taking its PC gaming and content creation leadership to new heights.” Th ..read more

Announced in May, with more details revealed in August, the HP Reverb G2 headset is the new standard for PC Virtual Reality, setting the bar for both creators and the public wanting the best experience. Discover more at the VR/AR Global Summit Online. The latest update on the HP Reverb G2 Virtual Reality headset confirms that since its announcement the world’s highest resolution VR headset among major vendors has been improved, to make the VR experience even more immersive. HP announced the following updates, which not only make the headset more capable but also make life easier for users: We ..read more