Author Archives: Mike McCarthy

About Mike McCarthy

Mike McCarthy is a technology consultant, with extensive experience in the film post-production industry. He started posting technology info and analysis at HD4PC in 2007. He broadened his focus with TechWithMikeFirst ten years later.

GTC 2023 – New GPUs and AI Acceleration

This week was NVidia’s GTC conference, and they had a number of interesting announcements. Most relevant in the M&E space, are the new Ada Lovelace based GPUs. To accompany the… Read more »

Intel’s Sapphire Rapids is coming to Workstations

After many years without a significant update to most major workstation offerings, we are finally seeing new technology about to hit the workstation market. Intel’s recently released Sapphire Rapids server… Read more »

The GeForce 4090 is a Monster of a GPU

As the first product coming to market featuring NVidia’s new Ada Lovelace architecture, the GeForce 4090 graphics card has a host of new features to test out. With DLSS3 for… Read more »

NVidia’s Ada Lovelace Architecture Announced

NVidia announced their next generation of GPU architecture, named after Ada Lovelace, who is an interesting figure in early computer programming. NVidia’s newest Ada Lovelace chips have up to 18,432… Read more »

Pushing the Envelope with Premiere Pro

I have been working on a series of advanced tutorial videos I call “Pushing the Envelope with Premiere Pro.” Originally conceived as an Adobe MAX session topic, I have instead… Read more »

Professional Ampere GPUs from NVidia

NVidia has quite a long selection of professional GPUs available based on the Ampere generation chips. While this offers users finer gradations in pricing and performance, it can be more… Read more »

Boxx’s Apexx S3 – Intel’s Alder Lake Maxxed Out

I have spent the last few weeks using Boxx’s newest iteration of their Apexx S3 Workstation, and it is quite impressive. Based on Intel’s “Alder Lake” CPUs, with DDR5, it… Read more »

NAB 2022

NAB has returned to Las Vegas this week, as an in person event for the first time in three years. Due to this, there are many new products being announced… Read more »

GTC 2022 – NVidia Isn’t Slowing Down

NVidia is hosting GTC 2022 this week, which is mostly focused on supercomputing and AI uses for their graphics processors, but there a few announcements that are relevant to content… Read more »

Finding the “Best” Workstation

I have had the unique opportunity to test the two most powerful single socket workstations available on the market today. Last year’s review of the Lenovo Thinkstation P620 looked at… Read more »