NVIDIA's Turing - A Big Leap Forward For GPUs |
Written by Harry Fairhead | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday, 14 August 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NVIDIA has used SIGGRAPH 2018 to announce its new GPU hardware and has upstaged just about everyone else. The new Turing architecture is a big step up and it means that GPUs can get back to what they were intended for - graphics. And perhaps AI and many parallel computing tasks. I don't know about you, but personally I find the way GPUs have become the workhorse of the cryptocurrency miners a shameful waste of computing power. The new Quadro RTX™ 8000, Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 5000 are billed as the first ray-tracing GPUs - although claiming first for anything is a risky business. The amazing basic data on each is:
The estimated street prices are $2,300, $6,300 and $10,000, so they are hardly consumer-level products unless you are really serious about your graphics. The point-by-point spec is:
The new devices should be available in the fourth quarter of this year. As well as graphics, they should be useful for any application needing a supercomputer in a box, including AI, number crunching and, yes I suppose, cryptocurrencies. As well as the hardware, NVIDA announced a slew of new software in support. The RTX developer platform is aimed at ray tracing, deep learning and simulation and is the major release. You can find out more at the NVIDA website. More InformationRelated ArticlesNVIDIA's Neural Network Drives A Car A Billion Neuronal Connections On The Cheap NVIDA Updates Free Deep Learning Software
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