At SIGGRAPH, Nvidia announced its first Turing architecture-based GPUs, which enable artists to render photorealistic scenes in realtime, add new AI-based capabilities to their workflows and experience fluid interactivity with complex models and scenes.
The Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000, Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 5000 enable hardware-accelerated raytracing, AI, advanced shading and simulation. Also announced was the Quadro RTX Server, a reference architecture for highly configurable, on-demand rendering and virtual workstation solutions from the datacenter.
“Quadro RTX marks the launch of a new era for the global computer graphics industry,” says Bob Pette, VP of professional visualization at Nvidia. “Users can now enjoy powerful capabilities that weren’t expected to be available for at least five more years. Designers and artists can interact in realtime with their complex designs and visual effects in raytraced photo-realistic detail. And film studios and production houses can now realize increased throughput with their rendering workloads, leading to significant time and cost savings.”
Quadro RTX GPUs are designed for demanding visual computing workloads, such as those used in film and video content creation, automotive and architectural design and scientific visualization.
Quadro RTX Server
Features include:
• New RT cores to enable realtime raytracing of objects and environments with physically accurate shadows, reflections, refractions and global illumination.
• Turing Tensor Cores to accelerate deep neural network training and inference, which are critical to powering AI-enhanced rendering, products and services.
• New Turing Streaming Multiprocessor architecture, featuring up to 4,608 CUDA cores, that delivers up to 16 trillion floating point operations in parallel with 16 trillion integer operations per second to accelerate complex simulation of real-world physics.
• Advanced programmable shading technologies to improve the performance of complex visual effects and graphics-intensive experiences.
• First implementation of ultra-fast Samsung 16Gb GDDR6 memory to support more complex designs, massive architectural datasets, 8K movie content and more.
• Nvidia NVLink to combine two GPUs with a high-speed link to scale memory capacity up to 96GB and drive higher performance with up to 100GB/s of data transfer.
• Hardware support for USB Type-C and VirtualLink, a new open industry standard being developed to meet the power, display and bandwidth demands of next-generation VR headsets through a single USB-C connector.• New and enhanced technologies to improve performance of VR applications, including Variable-Rate Shading, Multi-View Rendering and VRWorks Audio.
The Quadro RTX Server combines Quadro RTX GPUs with new Quadro Infinity software (available in the 1st quarter of 2019) to deliver a flexible architecture to meet the demands of creative pros. Quadro Infinity will enable multiple users to access a single GPU through virtual workstations, dramatically increasing the density of the datacenter. End-users can also easily provision render nodes and workstations based on their specific needs.
Quadro RTX GPUs will be available starting in the 4th quarter. Pricing is as follows:
Quadro RTX 8000 with 48GB memory: $10,000 estimated street price
Quadro RTX 6000 with 24GB memory: $6,300 ESP
Quadro RTX 5000 with 16GB memory: $2,300 ESP
