NVIDIA has just announced their first Turing GPU based Quadro RTX graphics card that is aimed at Ray Tracing, Compute and AI development. The graphics card was demoed in ray tracing and ran a scene of Star Wars, fully ray-traced, on a single-chip graphics card, the same feat that previously took four Quadro GV100 GPUs to accomplish.

NVIDIA Ran Star Wars Ray Traced Demo on a Single Quadro RTX Graphics Card Featuring The Next-Gen Turing GPU

The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 is the flagship Turing based graphics card featuring up to 96 GB of GDDR6 memory. That's ample amount of what's needed to power future ray tracing graphics and NVIDIA is taking full on lead in this department. It required NVIDIA four flagship Volta GV100 GPU based Quadro graphics card to power the same demo that was running on a single Turing based Quadro RTX 6000 solution which is, for now, a high-end solution in the Quadro RTX lineup. It's a stunning feat for ray tracing graphics.

The demo was running on a flagship Quadro RTX 6000 graphics card with a monstrous and next-generation Turing GPU featuring a next-generation core architecture and new memory (Samsung GDDR6 Dies) technologies which we have not seen in any consumer or workstation graphics card released to date.

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Quadro RTX Professional GPUs

Quadro RTX GPUsare designed for the most demanding visual computing workloads, such as those used in film and video content creation; automotive and architectural design; and scientific visualization. They far surpass the previous generation with groundbreaking technologies, including:

New RT Cores to enable real-time ray tracing 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, 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.The 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™ andVirtualLink™(1), 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 the performance of VR applications, including Variable Rate Shading, Multi-View Rendering, and VRWorks Audio.

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