Faster 8K Editing with NVIDIA Quadro RTX and Turing Architecture

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by Jakub HanAugust 16^th, 2018

NVIDIA presented some big news: their newly developed GPU architecture called Turing and new NVIDIA Quadro RTX graphic cards, which are the first GPUs based on the Turing architecture. These new cards aim to ease 8K workflows and NVIDIA worked closely with RED to optimize and test the results with the REDCODE RAW file format. The new Quadro RTX GPUs should allow editing 8K footage in full resolution, in real time.

NVIDIA Turing Architecture

The company describes their newly developed technology as the “greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006“. Turing features new RT Cores to accelerate ray tracing and new Tensor Cores for AI inferencing which make real-time ray tracing possible.

The RT Cores accelerate the computation of how light and sound travel in 3D environments at up to 10 GigaRays a second. Turing accelerates real-time ray tracing operations by up to 25x that of the previous Pascal generation, and GPU nodes can be used for final-frame rendering for film effects at more than 30x the speed of CPU nodes.

The Tensor Cores accelerate deep learning training and inferencing. Their power potential can accelerate, for instance, the DLAA — deep learning anti-aliasing, which is a high-quality motion image generation —  denoising, resolution scaling and video re-timing.

The potential of this new architecture will mainly be used in a new generation of hybrid rendering in the visual effects industry. Hybrid rendering enables cinematic-quality interactive experiences, new effects powered by neural networks and fluid interactivity on highly complex models.

NVIDIA announced that key graphics applications are planning to take advantage of Turing features through the RTX development platform.

NVIDIA Quadro RTX Professional GPUs

Turing-based GPUs feature a new streaming multiprocessor (SM) architecture that adds an integer execution unit and a new unified cache architecture with double the bandwidth of the previous generation. Combined with new graphics technologies, such as variable rate shading, the Turing SM achieves unprecedented levels of performance per core. With up to 4,608 CUDA cores, Turing supports up to 16 trillion floating point operations in parallel with 16 trillion integer operations per second.

NVIDIA announced three new Quadro RTX graphic cards which should be available in Q4 2018:

• Quadro RTX 8000 with 48GB memory, 10 GigaRays/sec, 4,608 CUDA cores and 576 Tensor cores. Estimated street price is $10,000 USD.
• Quadro RTX 6000 with 24GB memory, 10 GigaRays/sec, 4,608 CUDA cores and 576 Tensor cores. Estimated street price is $6,300 USD.
• Quadro RTX 5000 with 16GB memory, 6 GigaRays/sec, 3,072 CUDA cores and 384 Tensor cores. Estimated street price is $2,300 USD.

Also announced was the Quadro RTX Server, which is a reference architecture for highly configurable, on-demand rendering and virtual workstation solutions from the datacenter.

The NVIDIA Quadro RTX cards are first to have the fast Samsung GDDR6 memory. It will also be possible to combine two GPUs with a high-speed NVIDIA NVLink to scale memory capacity up to 96GB and drive higher performance with up to 100GB/s of data transfer.

Source: nVidia