RTX

Chaos Group demos Project Lavina; realtime ray tracing

Forest animation rendered in realtime with Chaos’ new Lavina technology. The scene has over 300 billion triangles and 80,000 instances running at 24–30 frames per second with no rasterized graphics or reduced level of detail as might be used for game engine rendering. In this case, the render was performed on Nvidia’s Quadro RTX GPUs.  Chaos Group showcased its new … Read more

Nvidia’s new RTX board’s test results

The highly anticipated Turing GPU-based Nvidia RTC 2080-series AIBs were announced in late August at Gamecon 2018 and the top of the lines cards were promised for delivery in late September. They came out the week of the 17th, and everyone who could get their hands on one tested and compared them to the previous generation, the Pascal GPU-based 1080-series. … Read more

Nvidia’s Turing demonstrates extensibility

Nvidia’s introduction of the Turing processor reveals the seemingly endless extensibility of the GPU. We saw the integration of video decoders and then encoders, audio amplifiers and multiple spatial sound features, and the addition of special functions and filters, as well as memory management, and high-speed interfaces.  With Turing, Nvidia added two new processor types, a matrix-multiplier they call the … Read more