Performance: relative to its predecessor and the most comparable Nvidia offering. As is our practice when evaluating workstation-class graphics AIBs, we ran SPEC's Viewperf, in this case the newest version 13. Viewperf focuses workload on the graphics AIB, such that the rest of the system isn't (or at least shouldn't often be) the bottleneck. As a result, Viewperf will give a … [Read more...] about Benchmarking the Radeon Pro W5700
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Nvidia’s Q3 FY20 results
$3.01 billion in sales, $899 million profit, up 61% from last quarter. Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.6 billion, up 22% from last quarter, but down 8% from last year. The quarter was the fourth consecutive decline in year-over-year sales. “Our gaming business and … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q3 FY20 results
Nvidia offers cloud-based AR content rendering
AR images driven by Nvidia GPUs to your phone Nvidia has been in the clouds for ten years or more and they know their way around. You may remember GRID, the VMware/Citrix remote computing solution that Nvidia was a part of. And then there’s GeForce Now, its game streaming platform. The company also offers Shield, cloud-based TV delivery, and of course, its render farms, cloud … [Read more...] about Nvidia offers cloud-based AR content rendering
Ray tracing will be unavoidable in 2020
PCs, consoles, and mobile devices will show the rays. Ray tracing has been used in games for some time, but as baked in images. Ray tracing, even at 30 fps, is a computational challenge that has befuddled and frustrated hardware and software engineers for decades. With clever algorithms, Moore’s Law, and dogged perseverance, computer graphics companies have pushed the … [Read more...] about Ray tracing will be unavoidable in 2020
New development in AI hardware and software is transforming the market
Three years ago, we had maybe six or less AI accelerators, today there’s over two dozen, and more are coming. One of the first commercially available AI training accelerators was the GPU, and the undisputed leader of that segment was Nvidia. Nvidia was already preeminent in machine learning (ML) and deep-learning (DL) applications and adding neural net acceleration was a … [Read more...] about New development in AI hardware and software is transforming the market