NVIDIA Announces Quadro And TITAN xP External GPU Solutions, OptiX 5.0 SDK (hothardware.com) 36
Brandon Hill, writing for HotHardware: AMD isn't the only hardware company making waves this week at SIGGRAPH 2017. NVIDIA is looking to bolster its position in the professional graphics arena with a few new breakthroughs. The first of which is the addition of two new external graphics solutions that are targeted at professional artists and designers who primarily work with notebooks. NVIDIA is making it possible for these professionals to use either Pascal-based TITAN xP or Quadro graphics cards within an external GPU (eGPU) enclosure. NVIDIA will be partnering with a number of hardware partners including Bizon, Magma, and Sonnet, who will make compatible solutions available in September. NVIDIA is also playing up two of its strengths in artifice intelligence (AI) by launching the OptiX 5.0 SDK. With version 5.0, the OptiX is gaining ray tracing support to help speed up processing with regards to visual designs. This new release also adds GPU-accelerated motion blur along with AI-enhanced denoising capabilities.
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Perhaps this was true years ago, however these kind of claims are silly now days.
That issue never got fixed. I tested it a few years ago before the video card got fried from a broken fan. The solution was to get an Nvidia video card and/or an Intel processor.
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how do you know it never got fixed, if the last time you tried it was a few years ago?
The game got released in 2011. Still wasn't working in 2015, four years after the game got released. If you had a Radeon 7970 and an Intel processor, the game works fine. If you had a Radeon 7970 and a AMD processor, the game screws the pooch. This never got fixed by id Software.
I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. (Score:2)
I have one of those Magma boxes at work and have considered shoving a graphics card in there just to see what happens, but I don't have time to just play.
Dell has something akin to that which looks really awesome to me and it has mostly good feedback [dell.com], but it's a proprietary cable so it limits what you can do with it.
Thunderbolt 2, like my Magma box supports, just doesn't have the bandwidth to really do 3D right, but it's great for desktop.
Now - to get Intel to release their death-grip on Thunderbolt so AMD
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I looked that up - I like the looks of that thing.
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It is work.
I don't have time to play while there isn't someone using the box in the studio.
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Running an akitio node with a GTX 970 (TB3) -- gotta say it actually handles 1440p gaming fairly well. True, it's not yet a cost effective solution (probably cheaper to just build a mid-range tower) -- and there is a performance penalty (benchmarks indicate it's about 10-20% performance hit versus running the card over a pcie 16x slot) but if you've got the laptop, and a spare card, definitely breathes some extra life as far as 3d performance into a notebook.
Definitely agree though, I think Intel has been
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i think you're missing the point. now you can buy a laptop with a competent CPU, and whothefuckcares.jpg video (integrated, discrete.. doesn't matter) and just use an external enclosure over thunderbolt.
So that ultrabook/convertible -- provided it has a good CPU, can be used as a full fledged gaming device without sacrificing form-factor to accommodate a bulky discrete GPU.
Given that scenario, what purpose does intel's anemic integrated graphics serve? (or for that matter, a discrete, non-upgradeable, over-
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Explain how having an external box hooked up to your laptop for good 3D performance has not compromised the form factor of your "ultrabook/convertible"?
What puzzle's me is if you need a GPU for computational reasons, how a small "server" does not beat the hell out of a box hooked up via a cable to your laptop is beyond me.
WHY? (Score:2)
Didn't nVidia claim their notebook GPUs were desktop class but with a lower clock instead of half the core count to make up for the power efficiency?
What's the fucking point of eGPUs now, unless you're using an APPLE PRODUCT?
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Not all laptops come with nVidia GPUs. There are WAY more sold with integrated Intel Graphics than there are with nVidia.
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