The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review: Foundations For A Ray Traced Future
by Nate Oh on September 19, 2018 5:15 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
- Raytrace
- GeForce
- NVIDIA
- DirectX Raytracing
- Turing
- GeForce RTX
Compute & Synthetics
Moving on to the low-level compute guts of the cards, we take a look at compute and synthetic results starting with tensor core accelerated GEMM.
While using binaries compiled for Volta, Turing is backwards compatible in that respect as it is in the same compute capability family (sm_75 compared to Volta's sm_70). In terms of compute resources, the RTX 2080 Ti's 544 tensor cores and 1545MHz boost clock is not far off of the Titan V's 640 tensor cores and 1455MHz boost clock, so the latest Turing-optimized binaries should better reflect the RTX 2080 Ti's raw GEMM acceleration capabilities. Likewise for the 368 tensor core RTX 2080, whose tensor-accelerated HGEMM performance in TFLOPS is somewhere around 20% less than the RTX 2080 Ti.
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imaheadcase - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Because bluray players played movies from the start, delivered what they promised from the start even if cost a lot? Duh.PopinFRESH007 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
They played DVDs from the start. Your statement is falseimaheadcase - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Umm nope its true.Spunjji - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
Yeah, there was media available at launch. Also Blu-Ray provided a noticeable jump in both quality AND resolution over DVD. RTX provides maybe the first and definitely not the second.V900 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
And it’s clear that you didn’t read the article, or skimmed it at best, if you’re claiming that “the two technologies have not even seen the real light of day”.The tools are out there, developers are working with them, and not only are there many games on the way that support them, there are games out now that use RTX.
Let me quote from the review:
“not only was the feat achieved but implemented, and not with proofs-of-concept but with full-fledged AA and AAA games. Today is a milestone from a purely academic view of computer graphics.”
tamalero - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Development means nothing unless they are released. As plans get cancelled, budgets gets cut and technology is replaced or converted/merged into a different standard.imaheadcase - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
You just proved yourself wrong with own quote. lolGuess what? Python language is out there, lets all develop games from it! All the tools are available! Its so easy! /sarcasm
Ranger1065 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
V900 shillage stench.PopinFRESH007 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Just like those HD-DVD adopters, Laser Disc adopters, BetaMax adopters. V900 is pointing out that early adopters accept a level of risk in adopting new technology to enjoy cutting-edge stuff. This is no different that Bluray or DVDs when they came out. People who buy RTX cards have "WORKING TECH" and will have few options to use it just like the 2nd wave of Bluray players. The first Bluray player actually never had a movie released for it and it cost $3800."The first consumer device arrived in stores on April 10, 2003: the Sony BDZ-S77, a $3,800 (US) BD-RE recorder that was made available only in Japan.[20] But there was no standard for prerecorded video, and no movies were released for this player."
Even 3 years after that when they actually had a standard studios would produce movies for the players that were out cost over $1000 and there was a whopping 7 titles that were available. Similar to RTX being the fastest cards available for current technology, those Bluray players also played DVDs (gasp).
imaheadcase - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Again, the point is bluray WORKED out of the box even if expensive. This doesn't even have any way to even test the other stuff.. You are literally buying something for a FPS boost over previous gens that is not really a big one at that. It be a different tune if lots of games already had the tech in hand by nvidia, had it in games just not enabled...but its not even available to test is silly.