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NVIDIA Unveils Next-Gen Turing Quadro RTX Professional Graphics Cards (hothardware.com) 56

MojoKid shares a report from Hot Hardware: We been hearing a lot about NVIDA's next-generation GPU architecture since late last year, and today NVIDIA is announcing the first products based on Turing. NVIDIA is targeting the professional graphics market first with its new Quadro RTX 8000, RTX 6000 and RTX 5000 GPUs. Turing GPU architecture replaces Pascal, which has served both the consumer and professional markets since 2016. But as its 8th generation GPU architecture, NVIDIA is ushering in a number of advances with Turing and it's billed as the "world's first ray-tracing GPU." When it comes to content creators, NVIDIA claims that with the power of Turing, "applications can simulate the physical world at 6x the speed of the previous Pascal generation."

Getting down to brass tacks, the entry-level Quadro RTX 5000 has 3,072 CUDA cores, 384 Tensor cores, and will come with 16GB of 14Gbps GDDR6 memory. Its ray-tracing performance is dialed in at 6 GigaRays/sec, according to NVIDIA. Both the Quadro RTX 6000 and RTX 8000 have 4,608 CUDA cores and 576 Tensor cores; the only difference between the two is that the former has 24GB of GDDR6, while the latter doubles that to 48GB. Ray-tracing performance for both of these GPUs tops out at 10 GigaRays/sec. NVIDIA is also claiming up to 16TFLOPs compute performance for the Quadro RTX 8000. NVIDIA's new Quadro GPUs will also be among the first to support both USB-C and VirtualLink for next-generation virtual reality and mixed reality headsets. Other VirtualLink backers include AMD, Oculus, Microsoft and Valve. The Quadro RTX 5000, RTX 6000 and RTX 8000 will all be available during the fourth quarter of 2018 priced at $2,300, $6,300 and $10,000 respectively.

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NVIDIA Unveils Next-Gen Turing Quadro RTX Professional Graphics Cards

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  • by psergiu ( 67614 ) on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:06AM (#57120908)

    ... the former has 24GB of GDDR6, while the latter doubles that to 96GB ...

    24 * 2 = ?

    • by psergiu ( 67614 )

      Yes, the /. summary is taken straight from the TFA.
      So Brandon Hill, MojoKid and BeauHD - please pay a bit more attention.

      • by Anonymous Coward
        Hothardware, say not more. The amusing part is they are always behind yet can't even properly copy other peoples published specs. it is 48GB not 96.
        • That was a typo obviously, and related to NVLink scaling across Quadro RTX 8000 GPUs. Thanks for the kinds words though. Competitor perhaps, AC?
        • Hothardware, say not more. The amusing part is they are always behind yet can't even properly copy other peoples published specs. it is 48GB not 96.

          Side note: "say not more" ... Grammar and spelling - like gravity, such a bitch.

      • That was a typo obviously, and associated with the NVLink scaling with two GPUs for a total of 96GB or 2x48.
    • by lorinc ( 2470890 ) on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:18AM (#57120940) Homepage Journal

      Well, that gives you an idea of how this card generation got its performances boost.

    • Maybe they were using common core maths.
    • ... the former has 24GB of GDDR6, while the latter doubles that to 96GB ...

      24 * 2 = ?

      I'm guessing it's more like Wayside School math. GDDR6 is the latter for some odd reason, so GDDR6 * 2 = 96GB.

    • by juancn ( 596002 )
      It actually has 48GB but you can link two through NVLink for a total of 96GB
    • That's right up there with the names of video standards:
      240p - SD
      480p - SD
      720p - HD
      1080p - Full HD ( *should* technically be "2k" referring to the total amount of horizontal pixels - 1920px. )
      2160p - 4K Ultra HD
      4320p - 8k Ultra HD

      Nevermind the fact that the human eye with 20/20 vision couldn't differentiate the pixels of a 65" 1080p TV from 10 feet away, but I digress.

  • "The only difference between the two is that the former has 24GB of GDDR6, while the latter doubles that to 96GB. "

    So does someone need a typing or a maths class?
  • If only I had an application that would be tractable on this sort of hardware. The ray tracing side of things is boring to me, i'd be interested to know how this works out for large matrix operations, or signal processing type applications. Still, more is more when it comes to compute!

    • by sg_oneill ( 159032 ) on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:21AM (#57121080)

      big marix math is something CUDA does well on account of being able to parallelize large amounts of simple operations which is ultimately hosw matrices work , just stepwise working through the steps.

      https://www.quantstart.com/art... [quantstart.com]

      As for signal processing in general, mostly is a pretty great use, however if its real time audio, there has been traditionally issues with latency shifting blocks in and out of GPU ram. Video for whatever reason is a bit better because the discrete timing between frames are large enough that latency isn't a problem, but audio is continuous so a degree of extra buffering needs to happen. But if I was calculating messy convolutions, or something that might make the CPU sweat, the GPU would still be my first port of call

  • Crap, I just bought a P4000.

  • 96GB is 48GB (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Note that if you do RTFA, it's still badly explained, wrongly written but you get 48GB on the top end Quadro (not in the article : it's up from the older 24GB on GDDR5, because GDDR6 is available with twice the density)
    If you have two Quadro RTX 8000 linked with a bridge, you get a real and genuine 96GB memory space in the same way it happens on modern dual CPU systems. Coherent, seamless but bandwidth is much slower if you go over the border of course. This feature was already available on Quadro GP100 (Pa

  • Couldn't make it TWO WORDS without a grammatical mistake? Literally the minimum necessary number of words for such a mistake. That's damn impressive.

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