Nvidia Turing

[Sharlybg]

Just to be clear: this allow the usage of Optix with open source projects but it still require an NVIDIA GPU as Optix only works there, it is mandatory, not an option ... not exactly a small detail.

I'm sure NVIDIA really like this solution

Theses guys are just Money hunter Nothing More

[kintuX]

Just to be clear: this allow the usage of Optix with open source projects but it still require an NVIDIA GPU as Optix only works there, it is mandatory, not an option ... not exactly a small detail.

I'm sure NVIDIA really like this solution

Theses guys are just Money hunter Nothing More

Sadly, IMHO, they seem much worse. Here we have a saying: Where good people build a church, the devil rises up a chapel.
They have found a way to poison the source.
Also, many seats/job positions will become redundant and blind gamers are happy to support further decline of human ingenuity, artistry, imagination... for the sake of pleasing own weak egos under influence of pretentious tech gods. Displayed is same pattern as is with junkies, addicts - fanaticism. This is what saddens me, could have been done long ago & open sourced, but it is what profit in capitalism stands for - exploitation of the weak. & The gap widens.

On to waiting for AMD 7nm + possibly some extras in raytracing & AI departments... similarly Apple shows quite a rise in Metal2 performance (just in code dev. optimization). Will see after things settle down.

[FarbigeWelt]

Nice Nvidia demo, but it is only a demo. Some guys tested the so called real time ray tracing. In fact it is not feasible yet. You need at least 4 to 16 samples per pixel and this is not much as we know. They optimized a lot.

Let us wait for cards with more than 100 Tflops for 32 bit floats with tdp less than 250 W.

[kintuX]

GPU Ray Tracing for Film and Design: RenderMan XPU (@ NVIDIA SIGGRAPH 2018)
by Max Liani, Pixar Animation Studios

[lacilaci]

I think that soon people will "discover" difference between raytracing and pathtracing and so on. I'm noob, but come on, insane amount of mega rays per second... for what? A shadow or a specific single bounce reflection?
I was relying for some time on renderfarm for like 80-90% renderings(rebus to be precise) but with 2.8 or luxcore alpha that's not much of an option unless official releases. So I'm thinking of an upgrade of my old workstation (4770K+1060) some ryzen or threadripper with 2070 or 2080, but with nvidia I keep thinking that all this raytracing talk might not be too useful for offline rendering.
Can someone well educated tell me if I'm wrong and it's the best time for upgrade?

[Dade]

Can someone well educated tell me if I'm wrong and it's the best time for upgrade?

You could just upgrade everything but the GPU and wait to see what happens. It is probably what I'm going to do.

Vulkan has a NVIDIA extension to expose the new ray tracing "hardware" (if there is any real hardware...). It is the only vaguely viable option for anyone not using CUDA at the moment.

[provisory]

https://hothardware.com/reviews/nvidia- ... ing?page=3

[Dade]

https://hothardware.com/reviews/nvidia- ... ing?page=3

Strange, doing the math, price/performance ratio of the Vega 64 and RTX 2080Ti is about the same (something like 50% more expansive and 50% faster).

However LuxMark v3.1 uses generic GPU computing code and not the new RTX hardware.

[kintuX]

Well, here brand new Vega64 RX is 750€ (used 550€) vs. 1450€ for new RTX 2080Ti (550€ for used GTX1080Ti)

[pixie]

I would say Vega competition is 2080 not 2080Ti...