SIGGRAPH 2025 preview

World’s biggest graphics conference returns to Canada with a heavy dose of neural rendering, immersive tech—and a few surprises still under wraps.

With inaugural RTX Rendering Day

With SIGGRAPH 2025 just around the corner, NVIDIA isn’t wasting any time promoting their upcoming inaugural RTX Rendering Day.

Co-founder returns to celebrate 30 years of the film that changed computer graphics

SIGGRAPH 2025 is set to open with a high-profile tribute to Pixar’s Toy Story, marking the 30th anniversary of the world’s first fully computer-animated feature film.

Standard, passive, and liquid-cooled

Although we were pretty sure they were coming, Sparkle has rather quietly listed several Intel Arc PRO B60 graphics cards, including a standard blower-style one, as well as a passive and liquid-cooled version.

Hdrtest backlash as DRM update hits kernel

IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds has blasted Troubled Chipzilla’s “hdrtest” feature.

Bureaucracy held it back: Koduri

Troubled Chipzilla had the power to dominate the AI market, but "spreadsheet & PowerPoint snakes" in the boardroom strangled its potential, according to former exec Raja Koduri.

Gamers frank with Frank Azor 

PC Gamer has noticed a surge of responses on social media underscoring many gamers have had a gutsful of overpriced GPUs with lots of bells and whistles which are unavailable.

Graphics costing too much

Major video game studios' pursuit of ultra-realistic graphics has led to diminishing returns and industry-wide layoffs, according to the New York Times.

Makes AMD’s offering look dated

The PSSR AI upscaling method built for the PS5 Pro appears to clean the clock of the AMD’s FSR 3.1.

Fixing a single issue with Pugentbench benchmark

Intel has released its latest Arc Graphics WHQL driver, version 101.5592, fixing a single issue seen with the Pugentbench benchmark.