High Point announced a new up to 192TB true Gen5 x16 NVMe storage performance solution tested with the popular ASUS PRO WS WRX90E Sage SE motherboard. Last April HighPoint announced the industry’s first Gen5 NVMe AIC to deliver 56GB/s transfer speed & 64TB of storage for Intel & AMD desktop platforms, with HighPoint’s Rocket 1608A. For those disappointed by the lackluster performance of standard PCIe Gen5 NVMe add-in cards (AICs) the company promised a solution: its Rocket 1608A NVMe Switch AIC, enabling users to fully exploit x16 lanes of PCIe Gen5 bandwidth provided by Intel 600/ 700 ..read more

OK let’s just get the giant Elephant/Apple in the room out of the way first – who on earth in the professional media space will even want to buy a Windows Laptop? As one of those people, I think I have a few good reasons for you. But first, why do threads asking about recommendations for Windows laptops have literally half the replies saying “you should just buy a Macbook!” Frankly, because considering all things, they are better. A typical high end Windows laptop working hard will have about 2-3 hours battery life (or just be forced to curb half its power when you unplug), where the Macbook P ..read more

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