AMD already featured Blender at the announcement of their new flagship processor, the Ryzen 7, last December. The official launch is today, and once again Blender is part of their story!
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Bart Veldhuizen
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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Pls stop with these "Blender spotted" posts. It's pathetic and cringe worthy, just masturbating egos.
Hahaha seriously John ?
What's the problem. It's just a news.
Haha what's the problem. It's just a comment.. It offended you same as this article offended me. Every Blender showcase doesn't mean Blender's recognition, sometimes it just means someone used it because it is free. And making an article about every Blender appearance so each Blender fan can jizz his pants is in my eyes pathetic and makes this site worse. If the story is something like: "This is how Blender helped us", or: "Wouldn't be possible without Blender" - then I am all about such news featuring recognition and usage of Blender. If the story is: Hey, there is a Blender on that screen - then give me a break and don't make a recognition post about it.. I think you understand now what the problem is.
Why complain, especially with language meant to incite argument? If the article doesn't interest you, don't read it. Problem solved.
Bart: Please ignore him, Blender adoption and development depends at least partly on it's acceptance in the industry, so hearing about it can only increase its legitimacy.
Yep, don't worry :-)
Ignore all the critics and don't worry about them! The new motto. Well done Bart, smart move.
Now pls think. If you inform about every crap out there, like that there was somewhere a screen with Blender on it, you are lowering the quality of the whole site.
If you inform about a good story, like Blender being used for prosthetic 3D printing, that's a good quality story. Making news from Blender being used just for benchmark is just sad - think about it - is Blender community that desperate to describe it like some achievement? It's pathetic, that's what I wrote last time.
Ok, so also if you don't like my comment and it doesn't interest you, don't read it. Problem solved. Do you even logic?
Hearing about Blender used in benchmark would increase Blender's legitimacy? Whatever you are smoking I need that stuff..
See! Now you start explaining yourself and your objection makes more sense. But you still lace it with puerile body humor, which makes me disinclined to accept your position. The only reason I responded the first time was yours was the only response and I wanted Bart to know it wasn't the only opinion out there. Also, the jejune tone seemed inappropriate to the site.
Don't worry, the video is totally unconvincing anyway. The AMD 8-core/16-thread processor finishes fractionally faster than the 6-core/12-thread Intel in a multi-tasking contest... so no surprise there. And in the graphics test at the end, the AMD manages 92fps versus the Intel's 88fps (who's got eyes fast enough to notice that?)... and the presenter says AMD could have chosen a faster clocking Intel chip at the same price as the AMD! Sadly it seems like Ryzen is yet more overheated hype from AMD.
The idea is that we get a little better params but at a MUCH LOWER price. And the fact Blender is gaining recognition is the good news. Blender's may be the biggest career in the history of open source.
John is not quite right. If it was just money then e.g. FREE CPU-Z could do the job and without rendering anything. Games' authors don't complain their products are used as benchmarks. They could, though. Such news confirms that Blender is everywhere. And that, I guess, is the aim.