Nvidia Turing Speculation thread [2018]

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/08/13/turing-industry-support/

 

I'll be really impressed if the 2070 can match the 1080 Ti in non-RTX workloads. From the specs alone it seems like both the 2070 and the 2080 will be either at the same level or below the 1080 Ti but I wouldn't put it past Nvidia to offer something akin to Kepler => Maxwell again. Exciting stuff! Even though I'm not planning to upgrade my 1080 Ti immediately, unless the perf increase is something ground breaking

 

What does having Octane integrated into Unity or UE4 have anything to do with what I was saying ? Nothing.

Oh Snap! Just remembered that you are a big OTOY "fan" and previously ridiculously tried to "school" Andrew Lauritzen (who's one of the few people in the world who already had experience using DXR/RTX developing the Pica Pica Demo at SEED) about real-time rendering techniques and RT...
https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/2025973/ as a matter of fact he has never posted again on B3D since then...

Let's not go down that path again please.

 

All them GigaRays get me thinking about isosurface extraction from exascale HPC sims... can we package that pipeline in a single call ?!

 

What are the odds they can strong arm this into FMOD or unreal engine 4 or somewhere it will be widely implemented as a "default" option?

 

What the heck is an "Arnold GPU"?

 

It's a renderer written in ArnoldC.
http://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/

 

Arnold GPU is the name given to the GPU version/Path of Autodesk/SolidAngle's Arnold renderer (which support's Denoising on the GPU via Nvidia OptiX since v.5.1). https://www.solidangle.com/news/arnold-5-1/
Similar to VRay GPU (which was known as VRay RT until this year).

 

1) Everything. Octane is now DXR accelerated and its integration with Unity supports both offline use (like baking ultra high quality lightmaps in a few seconds) and runtime use (up to full path tracing).
2) It's not my fault he refused to acknowledge OTOY's greater expertise on the subject of GPU-accelerated path tracing.

One can only hope.

 

Holy crap. Zotac 2080 Ti AMP is priced at $1199. 2080 at $839. I'll pass on this then. Performance would have to be 2X the current gen for that price to be justified.

https://videocardz.com/77505/zotac-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-amp-edition-to-cost-1199-usd

 

Considering the consumer die size is larger than even the GP100 and also with GDDR6 14Gbps, not surprising the price is going to be high.
Remember it is going from 471mm2 to over 700mm2 with GDDR6, and a lot of the technology is not about scaling traditional FP32 compute cores.
It seems the price of GDDR6 (14Gbps) is expensive when looking at the Turing Quadro model with 24GB and 48GB.

I could never see this GPU (especially the upper models) ever being considered cost effective from a consumer perspective, but it packs a lot in the GPU albeit it is yet to be seen how useful all of this is for traditional-current games and going forward.
Early adopter/'enthusiast tax' for quite a bit of that HW, which is diverging from historical approach.
I am interested to see its gaming performance for older and some latest games; if it manages around 30%-40% (caveat would be game dependant) over previous gen 1080ti with future looking hardware not truly used effectively yet it will sell IMO.

 

Nvidia event is starting in 2 hours. Anandtech will have liveblog here

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13240/nvidia-gamescom-2018-keynote-live-blog

https://m.twitch.tv/nvidia

 

3 games to support RTX: Battlefield V, Shadow Of Tomb Raider and Metro Exodus

 

It's just me / twitch or the tomb raider tech demo shows barely any difference with RT on?

 

It does show a difference, but it is subtle and in movement is a bit pointless...

 

The pricing is totally bonkers! RTX2070 for 499!!!! RTX2080 699, RTX2080Ti 999....

I guess Pascal has not reached EOL yet...

 

GPUs got so good at "faking" everything that RT enhancements don't offer that huge a noticeable overall improvement. It's not a gameplay enhancement unless you use shadows and light as part of the gameplay really though even those are easily faked too.

 

The demo on Battlefield V is way more impressive!