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...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 16 August, 2018