The Siggraph 2018 Conference brought in the biggest announcements from Nvidia unveiling new turing architecture and three new pro-oriented workstation graphics cards in its Quadro family. This is the greatest leap for Nvidia since the introduction of the CUDA GPU in 2006. The Turing architecture features new RT Cores to accelerate ray tracing and new Tensor Cores for AI inferencing to enable real-time ray tracing.
The two engines along with more powerful compute for simulation and enhanced rasterization will usher in a new generation of hybrid rendering to address the $250 billion visual effects industry. Hybrid rendering enables cinematic-quality interactive experience, amazing new effects powered by neural networks and fluid interactivity on highly complex models.
The company also unveiled its initial Turing-based products – the NVIDIA® Quadro® RTX™ 8000, Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 5000 GPUs. They are expected to revolutionize the work of approximately 50 million designers and artists across multiple industries.
At the Annual Siggraph conference, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, Nvidia mentions,
“Turing is NVIDIA’s most important innovation in computer graphics in more than a decade.
Hybrid rendering will change the industry, opening up amazing possibilities that enhance our lives with more beautiful designs, richer entertainment and more interactive experiences. The arrival of real-time ray tracing is the Holy Grail of our industry.”
Here’s the list of Turing architecture features in detail.
The new Turing architecture has already received support from companies like Adobe, Pixar, Siemens, Black Magic, Weta Digital, Epic Games and Autodesk. The new Quadro RTX is priced at $2,300 for a 16GB version and $6,300 for 24GB version. Double the memory to 48GB and Nvidia expects you to pay about $10,000 for the high-end card.
For more information you may visit the Nvidia official blog page.
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