The successor to Volta and Turing ushers in a new architecture. Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in 2020 didn’t proceed like any before it. Originally scheduled for what turned out to coincide COVID-19 onslaught of March, Nvidia early on reworked the conference to an online event. And rather than scheduling talks and sessions live and packed over four days, the company … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Ampere 2020 signals a new era for Nvidia
Turing
Nvidia’s most accessible Turing-class Quadro: the RTX 4000
Benchmarking and assessing a Turing-class GPU a much different process. At the introduction of its paradigm-shifting Turing generation GPU, Nvidia released three initial versions of Quadro RTX products, the RTX 8000, RTX 6000, and RTX 5000. All are expensive, pricy enough to fit into JPR’s Ultra-high End professional/workstation GPU class, defined as anything over $1,500 … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s most accessible Turing-class Quadro: the RTX 4000
Keeping the legacy alive: EVGA’s GTX 1660 Ti extends Nvidia’s legacy
JPR tests EVGA's new gaming board with Nvidia's GTX 1660 Ti JPR reviews Nvidia’s new GTX 1660 Ti from EVGA and finds the new board has everything the gamer needs. The first new board based on Nvidia’s Turing GPU is built for gamers, meaning it doesn’t have the dedicated cores for ray tracing and AI that are on the RTX versions for professionals but it does support Turing … [Read more...] about Keeping the legacy alive: EVGA’s GTX 1660 Ti extends Nvidia’s legacy
Nvidia showcases VR, AR, and rendering at SolidWorks World 2019
Offers new features to lure 3D CAD users to the Turing generation. At SolidWorks World 2019, Nvidia was selling the merits of its Turing RTX 4000 graphics board to workstation users. At the conference, Nvidia highlighted the advantages to be gained by Nvidia’s dedicated cores for rendering and also enough onboard memory to handle large models and assemblies. VR and AI also got … [Read more...] about Nvidia showcases VR, AR, and rendering at SolidWorks World 2019
The tale of Turing
A big-picture look at how Nvidia got to Turing, and how the new architecture signals an inflection point in GPU evolution. At Siggraph in August, Nvidia pulled the covers off of Turing, which one could argue is both a successor to not one but both of its preceding generations, Pascal and Volta. In the process, Nvidia confirmed several of the more expected advancements in its … [Read more...] about The tale of Turing