NVIDIA has unveiled new pro-oriented workstation GPUs in the Quadro family that feature the all-new Turing architecture, which is all about ray tracing and intensive AI-based computing tasks. Turing, the next generation of NVIDIA's GPU architecture, uses the new RT cores to accelerate ray tracing as well as new Tensor cores for AI interfaces, both of which work together to facilitate real-time ray tracing, providing a 25x improvement over previous generation Pascal architecture.
NVIDIA announces the new Turing GPU architecture and Quadro RTX
The new lineup of NVIDIA's Turing-based graphics cards includes three Quadro graphics cards, the Quadro RTX 5000, Quadro RTX 6000, and Quadro RTX 8000, starting at $2,300 for the Quadro RTX 5000 and going up to $10,000 for the top-of-the-line. Quadro RTX 8000.
As for the specs of the new Turing-based GPUs, the entry-level Quadro RTX 5000 has 16GB of GDDR6 memory, 6 Giga-rays/second ray tracing speed, 3,072 CUDA cores, and 384 Tensor cores. The mid-range Quadro RTX 6000 is equipped with 24 GB GDDR6 memory, 4,608 CUDA cores, 576 Tensor cores and has a ray tracing speed of 10 Giga rays/second.
The high-end Quadro RTX 8000 has 48 GB of GDDR6 memory, 4,608 CUDA cores, 576 Tensor cores and delivers a ray tracing speed of 10 Giga rays/second. The first Turing-based GPUs will be available in the fourth quarter of 2018 and will be supported by computer hardware from companies such as Dell, HP and Lenovo among others.
