MetaHumans - a look past the Hype
Written on April 29, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanEpic released their MetaHuman Creator tool in early access. Let's look past the social media hype and into what it actually offers, and who will be using it professionally.
What H.264/H.265 Hardware Decoding is Supported in DaVinci Resolve Studio?
Written on April 15, 2021 by Matt BachDavinci Resolve Studio supports hardware-based decoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) which can significantly improve performance with these codecs, but not all "flavors" of these codecs are supported depending on the bit depth and chroma subsampling used. In addition, support can change depending on the capability of the hardware in your system. In order to determine exactly what is supported, we decided to do our own testing to see exactly what types of H.264/5 media has hardware decoding support in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
What H.264/H.265 Hardware Decoding is Supported in Premiere Pro?
Written on April 15, 2021 by Matt BachPremiere Pro supports hardware-based decoding for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) which can significantly improve performance with these codecs, but not all "flavors" of these codecs are supported depending on the bit depth and chroma subsampling used. In addition, support can change depending on the capability of the hardware in your system. In order to determine exactly what is supported, we decided to do our own testing to see exactly what types of H.264/5 media has hardware decoding support in Premiere Pro.
11th Gen Intel Core CPU Review Roundup
Written on March 30, 2021 by Matt BachIntel's new 11th Gen Core processors are here, with significant improvements including an advertised 19% improvement in IPC (instructions per clock), but with a drop in total core count on the high end. This makes it hard to estimate how each model will perform in the real world without application and workflow specific benchmarking and testing.
Unreal Engine: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanRecently, Intel announced their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, however, their top-of-the-line CPU now has fewer cores. How will these new CPUs compare to AMD in Unreal Engine?
Cinema 4D: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanRecently, Intel announced their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, however, their top-of-the-line CPU now has fewer cores. How will these new CPUs compare to AMD in Cinema 4D?
V-Ray: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanRecently, Intel announced their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, however, their top-of-the-line CPU now has fewer cores. How will these new CPUs compare to AMD in V-Ray?
Agisoft Metashape 1.7.2: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by William GeorgeIntel has released their latest mainstream desktop CPU family, the 11th Gen Intel Core processors. We compare the top three models in this new lineup to the previous 10th Gen Core models and AMD's competing Ryzen 5000 Series in Agisoft Metashape.
Adobe Premiere Pro: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by Matt BachEarlier this month, Intel announced the initial launch of their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, but will that be enough for Intel to overtake AMD in Premiere Pro?
Adobe Photoshop: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by Matt BachEarlier this month, Intel announced the initial launch of their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, but will that be enough for Intel to overtake AMD in Photoshop?
Adobe Lightroom Classic: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by Matt BachEarlier this month, Intel announced the initial launch of their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, but AMD currently has a large lead in applications like Lightroom Classic. Will these new CPUs be enough for Intel to overtake AMD in Lightroom Classic?
Adobe After Effects: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by Matt BachEarlier this month, Intel announced the initial launch of their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, but will that be enough for Intel to overtake AMD in After Effects?
DaVinci Resolve Studio: 11th Gen Intel Core vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series
Written on March 30, 2021 by Matt BachEarlier this month, Intel announced the initial launch of their new 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (code-named "Rocket Lake"). These new processors are marketed as having substantially better per-core performance compared to their previous 10th Gen Core models, but at the tope end have fewer total CPU cores. Will these changes allow Intel to overtake AMD for DaVinci Resolve?
GPU Rendering - NVIDIA RTX A6000 Multi-GPU Scaling
Written on March 26, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanWith the launch of Nvidia's RTX A6000 video card, we look at how well these cards scale in multi-GPU configurations for rendering in Redshift, OctaneRender, and V-Ray.
Best Workstation PC for Unreal Engine (Spring 2021)
Written on March 17, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanUnreal Engine is being used by a wide ranger of industries and not just game development. Each industry uses Unreal a little differently, and as such, requires different hardware to optimize their workflow. We'll look at a few of the more popular use cases, and review the best hardware for each.
How Fast is the new Multi-Frame Rendering in After Effects 18.1 BETA?
Written on March 10, 2021 by Matt BachOne of the most common hardware complaint you will hear about After Effects is that it doesn't take advantage of the higher core count CPUs that are common in today's workstations. In the new After Effects 18.1 BETA, however, Adobe is introducing a new feature called Multi-Frame Rendering which should vastly speed up render times when you have a higher core count processor.
NVLink Performance in DaVinci Resolve 17.0
Written on March 4, 2021 by Matt BachIn version 17.0, Blackmagic added "Support for NVLink high speed interconnect with supported NVIDIA GPUs". But does this feature actually increase performance in Windows 10, or are you better off leaving it disabled?
Unreal Engine - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 Series CPU Performance
Written on February 24, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanAMD's new Threadripper Pro CPUs are here, combining many of the features from their Threadripper and EPYC CPU lines including increased memory and PCI-E capability. But are these extra features useful for Unreal Engine, or should you stick with the normal Threadripper processors?
V-Ray - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 Series CPU Performance
Written on February 24, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanAMD's new Threadripper Pro CPUs are here, combining many of the features from their Threadripper and EPYC CPU lines including increased memory and PCI-E capability. But are these extra features useful for V-Ray, or should you stick with the normal Threadripper processors?
Cinema 4D - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 Series CPU Performance
Written on February 24, 2021 by Kelly ShipmanAMD's new Threadripper Pro CPUs are here, combining many of the features from their Threadripper and EPYC CPU lines including increased memory and PCI-E capability. But are these extra features useful for Cinema 4D, or should you stick with the normal Threadripper processors?
NVIDIA NVLink 2021 Update and Compatibility Chart
Written on February 24, 2021 by William GeorgeUsing NVLink requires a physical bridge between two identical NVIDIA graphics cards, but with the new generation of Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 Series and RTX A-series video cards which bridges work with which GPUs?
DaVinci Resolve Studio - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 Series CPU Performance
Written on February 19, 2021 by Matt BachAMD's new Threadripper Pro CPUs are here, combining many of the features from their Threadripper and EPYC CPU lines including increased memory and PCI-E capability. These increased capabilities should make them excellent for DaVinci Resolve, but are they worth the higher cost?
Adobe Premiere Pro - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 Series CPU Performance
Written on February 19, 2021 by Matt BachAMD's new Threadripper Pro CPUs are here, combining many of the features from their Threadripper and EPYC CPU lines including increased memory and PCI-E capability. But are these extra features useful for Premiere Pro, or should you stick with the normal Threadripper processors?
Adobe After Effects - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 Series CPU Performance
Written on February 19, 2021 by Matt BachAMD's new Threadripper Pro CPUs are here, combining many of the features from their Threadripper and EPYC CPU lines including increased memory and PCI-E capability. The amount of RAM you have available for After Effects is often critical, but is Threadripper Pro worth the cost in order to get up to 2TB of RAM, or should you stick with the Ryzen or Threadripper line of processors?
Adobe Photoshop - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 Series CPU Performance
Written on February 19, 2021 by Matt BachAMD's new Threadripper Pro CPUs are here, combining many of the features from their Threadripper and EPYC CPU lines including increased memory and PCI-E capability. Photoshop may not be a prime candidate for this platform, but since it is one of the most widely used applications in the creative community, we wanted to see how Threadripper Pro compares to both the AMD Threadripper and Ryzen processors.