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VFX ripped from the pages of a comic book…

CG artists adapt Ms. Marvel’s superpowers for episodics and feature films.

GPU

Q2’22 saw a significant decline in GPU and PC shipments quarter to quarter

PC GPU market shipments decreased by -12.7% sequentially and decreased by -32% year to year.

Basemark debuts enhanced mobile device benchmark

Qualcomm led the industry in introducing variable rate shading (VRS) with the Snapdragon 888 last September. Apple filed a patent on VSR in 2019, Samsung has it in their GPU, and Arm’s Immortalis-G715 introduced it in June of this year. With all that development, someone had to test it. Who better than the folks at Basemark?

Getting into the swing of Spider-Man Remastered on the PC

Reviewers critique gameplay, performance, and image quality.

Siggraph 2022: A virtual walk around the floor (recap)

After two years of Zoom presentations and virtual meetings, it was fantastic once again to be greeting old friends and meeting newcomers face-to-face at Siggraph.

SPEC’s latest WS graphics benchmark

SPECviewperf 2020 v3.1 benchmark is a significant update.

Asus offers Intel-based GPU workstation

Has a Gen 12 CPU and Arc A380 discrete graphics

Apexx Everest—how much higher can Boxx get?

At Siggraph, in the Blender booth, Boxx introduced its Everest model of the Apexx brand workstations. Powered by the 64-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series processor, the company demonstrated the Blender rendering engine in Blender’s booth.

Whose metaverse is it anyway?

It depends on the foundational standards.

VIEW Conference spotlights metaverse and virtual production, adds more speakers

The global event on computer graphics is shaping up nicely with yet another impressive lineup that is expected to expand

Will AXG survive Gelsinger’s axe?

Five years of no results in the midst of dumping businesses

Reimagining the esports experience

Riot Games teams up with AWS on a new playbook to make the studio a major contender in the electronic sports arena. The studio also opens remote broadcast center.