Nvidia Turing architecture arrives in high-end Quadro RTX GPUs
Even if you don't care about workstations, it strongly hints that the Turing-based GeForce cards are imminent.
At SIGGRAPH 2018, Nvidia announced its first processors built on its long-awaited Turing architecture, the Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 graphics processors; Turing brings higher-bandwidth processing thanks to 4,608 CUDA cores along with support for high-bandwidth GDDR6 memory and the new one-cable VirtualLink VR. RTX adds new ray-tracing cores for high-quality, real-time rendering with global illumination.
They're slated to be available by the end of the year.
Specifications
| GPU | Memory | Memory with NVLink (two cards) | Ray Tracing bandwidth | CUDA Cores | Tensor Cores | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quadro RTX 8000 | 48GB | 96GB | 10 Gigarays per second | 4,608 | 576 | $10,000 |
| Quadro RTX 6000 | 24GB | 48GB | 10 Gigarays per second | 4,608 | 576 | $6,300 |
| Quadro RTX 5000 | 16GB | 32GB | 6 Gigarays per second | 3,072 | 384 | $2,300 |
NVLink is a new physical connector to link GPUs.
Dell , Lenovo and HP are among the first manufacturers that'll be incorporating these into their desktops . But unless you're editing 8K video, simulating real-time fluid dynamics or other seriously processor-intensive work, you might not care about how much heavy lifting these GPUs can do. However, they do make the Turing-based GeForce GPUs we've been waiting for, such as a possible GTX 1180, seem a bit closer; it's rumored to launch next week at Gamescom. And given the claim that their real time ray-tracing improves over Pascal by 6x in these GPUs, that bodes well for improvements for in-game rendering.