Nvidia unveiled the Turing GPU architecture at SIGGRAPH 2018

The much awaited Turing GPU architecture has finally been revealed by Nvidia at SIGGRAPH 2018. SIGGRAPH is sort of a conference for professionals who are into the world of VFX, Animation and 3D Modeling. And because of this Nvidia reveals their next generation professional graphic cards in Quadro series. Most probably they will be launched in the Quarter 4 of 2018.

This reveal from Nvidia puts an end to at least 1 rumor that is regarding the naming of the next generation architecture from Nvidia. We can also confirm from this conference that the prefix RTX is something real and can replace GTX in upcoming consumer Graphic Cards. Some of the salient features of these new GPU’s are mentioned below in point format:

1. Turing architecture like Volta will feature Tensor cores. These cores are different from CUDA cores. They are mainly used for Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Deep Learning. They basically forms the core part of the Neural networking capabilities from Nvidia.
2. Turing will feature something called as RT cores which will be responsible for Ray Tracing related tasks. As you all know Nvidia’s Turing architecture would be the first to utilize this technology. AMD on the other hand doesn’t have anything in their portfolio to match the prowess of RT cores.
3. The new GPU will feature GDDR6 memory which is being mass manufactured by memory makers such as Samsung and Micron.

 

Below is the configuration of the upcoming Quadro cards: