Does anyone know how they are offering better raytracing performance? Are there new api’s or something?
It looks like the major API players (Vulcan and DirectX) are going to be implementing ray tracing extensions:
Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
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Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#52Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14/16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger). Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this…
Where are you getting a 70-90% price increase? 1080s are ~$450, will now be $799. 1070s are ~$400, will now be $599. (I'm going off the top hits on Newegg)
For those confused, these are about what the 10 series Founder's Editions were priced at originally. When the 10 series was released, the 9XX series was around the same price as the 10 series is now compared to 20. The price isn't going up by 70-90%. It's that the previous series (10) is going down.
Does that mean the 10 series isn't worth it? By all means, no. The 9 series was still an excellent series when 10 was released, and people did pick the up.
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#532080 Ti FE RTX 2080 Ti GTX 1080 Ti Price $1,199 $999 $699 GPU Architecture Turing Turing Pascal Boost Clock 1635 MHz 1545 MHz 1582 MHz Frame Buffer 11 GB GDDR6 11 GB GDDR6 11 GB GDDR5X Memory Speed 14 Gbps 14 Gbps 11 Gbps Memory Interface 352-bit 352-bit 352-bit CUDA Cores 4352 4352 3584 TDP 260W 250W 250W Giga Rays 10 10 ? 2080 FE RTX 2080 GTX 1080 Price $799 $699 $549 GPU Architecture Turing Turing Pascal Boost Clo…
Those prices are Nvidia's OC Founder's Editions. The non-OC versions are actually:
RTX 2080 Ti: $999
RTX 2080: $699
RTX 2079: $499
Source: https://i.imgur.com/LrUitua.png
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#54Does anyone know how they are offering better raytracing performance? Are there new api’s or something?
Microsoft DXR
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#55Any idea of how these GeForce RTX's perform in deep learning applications compared to Quadro RTX? (price/performance ratio) I assume that they might have decent inference speed, but how about learning? $800 card would be nice for initial testing and developing in personal desktop machine. Or are they somehow crippled??
These will make a good card to experiment with. I am going to purchase one when I can. More RAM which is nice for larger models, but you can do a lot with 8GB of ram, especially if you are just getting going. Do not let worrying about having the latest and greatest hardware keep you from getting started. Time is the most important resource to have, not spec sheets.
These cards look like they will have Tensor Cores, which should give a significant boost (e.g. ~50% of P100/V100 performance for certain operations at ~10% of the cost) over the 1080 series.
The Quadro's have a higher spec ram (think ECC vs. DDR) which is important for a workstation GPU, but the price difference goes up in a hurry. My suggestion would be to learn on a RTX and then you can rent a Quadro if you need more power to play with.
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#56The prices are obscene. The '70 tier has usually been my tier of choice, but they're sliding that up from the $400 range to the $600 range. I actually just scored a 1080 in the realm of $400, presumably because crypto demand dived, and they had a lot of stock coming into the new generation announcement. I'm glad I got it, because it's going to be a while before I touch cards at these price points. Presumably when the…
Yeah, I've been thinking about replacing my 970, but for these kind of prices I don't know if it makes much sense.
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#57Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14/16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger). Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this…
introducing fiatlux
It's not as clever, but RayCoin would market better. Fiat Lux could be its tagline?
I hope I'm joking.
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#58Is anything known about the number of tensor cores in the new 2080 Ti? What about the float16 performance using the Tensor cores? I couldn't find this on the spec page [1]. [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...
A couple of sites have said 384 TC's, which would be approximately ~50% of the v100/new high-end Quadro card. Would like to see a confirmed source as well.
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#592080 Ti FE RTX 2080 Ti GTX 1080 Ti Price $1,199 $999 $699 GPU Architecture Turing Turing Pascal Boost Clock 1635 MHz 1545 MHz 1582 MHz Frame Buffer 11 GB GDDR6 11 GB GDDR6 11 GB GDDR5X Memory Speed 14 Gbps 14 Gbps 11 Gbps Memory Interface 352-bit 352-bit 352-bit CUDA Cores 4352 4352 3584 TDP 260W 250W 250W Giga Rays 10 10 ? 2080 FE RTX 2080 GTX 1080 Price $799 $699 $549 GPU Architecture Turing Turing Pascal Boost Clo…
Those prices are Nvidia's OC Founder's Editions. The non-OC versions are actually: RTX 2080 Ti: $999 RTX 2080: $699 RTX 2079: $499 Source: https://i.imgur.com/LrUitua.png
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Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#60Can someone point me towards the deep learning tech they reference for improving ray tracing performance?
NVIDIA's OptiX "AI-Accelerated" de-noiser has been available for some time https://developer.nvidia.com/optix-denoiser
(I don't know if it's what they're referring to, though)