Rob Williams

Rob founded Techgage in 2005 to be an 'Advocate of the consumer', focusing on fair reviews and keeping people apprised of news in the tech world. Catering to both enthusiasts and businesses alike; from desktop gaming to professional workstations, and all the supporting software.

Maxon has recently rolled out major updates to both its Cinebench and Redshift products, so we wanted to take a fresh look at GPU rendering performance in each with the help of AMD’s and NVIDIA’s current product stacks. While Redshift recently gained support for AMD Radeon, Intel, with its Arc series, becomes the odd one out.

In its latest quarterly Arc graphics update, Intel has released a new driver which can boost performance in DirectX 11 titles upwards of 19%. It also released a revamped version of its popular PresentMon performance analyzing tool, adding a valuable new metric to gauge how busy your GPU is keeping relative to the frametimes.

Blender 3.6 has recently launched, and from a performance perspective, it’s one of the biggest releases in a while. Both AMD and Intel gain ray tracing acceleration to render your scene faster, and other subtle improvements have been made as well, including the speed of viewport shader compiling. Let’s dig in!

The latest entrant to join NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace GeForce lineup is the RTX 4060. Priced at $299, the 8GB RTX 4060 targets those who’ve been waiting to upgrade from one of the predecessor cards, and wants to take advantage of the latest GeForce feature set – including niceties such as DLSS 3.

Qualcomm has today launched the newest iteration of its entry-level mobile SoC: Snapdragon 4 Gen 2. With Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 having launched just last September (alongside Snapdragon 6 Gen 2), this latest release might be one of the quickest successive launches we’ve seen from the company. Snapdragon 4 caters to users…..

AMD has today announced the launch of its latest generation Ryzen PRO desktop and notebook platform, featuring Ryzen PRO 7040 processors. This launch brings the Zen 4 architecture to AMD’s business-oriented Ryzen platform, providing more performance, better efficiency, improved battery-life, and the introduction of the Ryzen AI engine. Recent years have proven…..

We’re a little late on covering this one, but wanted to make sure we did, because for multiple reasons, it’s an interesting launch. Up to this point, we haven’t heard too much about Intel’s Arc Pro series, aimed at workstation, despite two models having been available since last year. Today, a third…..

AMD’s Radeon PRO series of workstation GPUs has just been augmented with the first models infused with the company’s RDNA3 architecture. We’re taking a look at the high-end 32GB Radeon PRO W7800, as well as the even higher-end 48GB Radeon PRO W7900, across a wide-range of production workloads.

AMD’s third RDNA3-based Radeon has just launched in the form of the RX 7600, an 8GB offering priced at $269. AMD claims that this card targets “high” 1080p gaming, but for our first look, we’re going to delve into its performance across creator workloads, including encoding and rendering.

NVIDIA has just launched its fifth GeForce to join the Ada Lovelace generation: RTX 4060 Ti. As usual, we’re going to kick off our coverage with a look at NVIDIA’s latest across a wide-range of creator workloads, involving rendering, encoding, photogrammetry, and of course, viewport.

Blender 3.5 brings a lot of polish and new features to the table, and naturally, we had to give it a thorough battering with a wide-range of GPUs. This time around, we’ve added a new Cycles and Eevee render project, a new viewport project, and also cover an interesting angle: shader compile times.

In the seven months since NVIDIA launched its first Ada Lovelace-based GeForce, we’ve seen the release of four models total. With the bottom of that bunch priced at $599, there’s been a ton of demand for more affordable options – and thankfully, we now know that those are arriving soon. Today’s launch…..

Last spring, Maxon announced that its popular Redshift renderer would be gaining support for AMD’s Radeon graphics cards. As with some competing engines (eg: Chaos V-Ray), most of Redshift’s existence has revolved around NVIDIA’s CUDA API, which of course means an NVIDIA GPU was required for use. Ahead of the AMD GPU…..

AMD has today announced its newest Radeon PRO workstation GPU series, with models built around its current generation RDNA3 architecture. While AMD could have launched this Radeon PRO W7000 with some modest models, it’s instead decided to make a statement with two top-end SKUs that don’t cater just to “heavy” workloads, but…..

NVIDIA has just launched the fourth GeForce as part of its Ada Lovelace lineup: RTX 4070. This GPU packs in 12GB of GDDR6X memory, boasts DLSS 3 frame generation support, draws much less power than the GPU it succeeds, and perhaps best of all, it does all of this with a modest stature. Let’s check it out.

Following-up on our recent look at AMD’s 3D V-Cache infused Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-core gaming processor, we’re now able to post our findings of the slimmer 8-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The results may surprise you, so it’s well worth poring over the data to make sure you don’t opt for more processor than you actually need.

The latest version of Blender has just released, and as we’ve come to expect, there’s a lot to take in, despite the previous version releasing just a mere three months ago. Key focuses here include hair- and fur-based Geometry Nodes, built-in assets (yes, you’re reading that right), support for vector displacement maps…..

AMD’s first Zen 4 processors featuring 3D V-Cache technology have landed, and with a focus squarely on gamers, we’ve been eager to see how 3D V-Cache elevates AMD’s Zen 4, and not to mention how it performs against the Intel competition. With the 16-core 7950X3D and thirteen games in-hand, let’s explore what AMD’s latest and greatest gaming CPU can pull off.

NVIDIA’s latest (and still virtual) GTC has just kicked-off, and without wasting a single second, the company’s unveiled lots to talk about, with large focuses on proviz, healthcare, automotive, robotics, and lithography. For this post, we’re going to focus on what gets us (and much of our audience) the most excited: professional…..

Which CPU you should be eying for your next workstation depends entirely on your workload, something this article will highlight across a range of tests. With AMD’s Zen 4-based Ryzens and Intel’s Raptor Lake-based Core processors in-hand, we’re exploring performance potential in encoding, rendering, photogrammetry, and others.