Nvidia’s Turing kicks open new doors for the company

Nvidia chose Siggraph as the backdrop for its big reveal of the new Turing GPU because the company believes this new processor has the power to transform graphics on several fronts important to the Siggraph community. Number one on the list is hardware accelerated ray tracing, at least in terms of messaging for Siggraph, but the company has also beefed up its AI hardware power, which will also boost rendering speed as we have seen in the past with denoising, and also expand Nvidia’s role in research. The message for Siggraph is that the advancements in ray tracing performance that