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Something people might have missed about the Turing reveal??

CAT-THE-FIFTH

CAT-THE-FIFTH

CAT-THE-FIFTH

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During Maxwell,Nvidia split its lines into ones more orientated towards consumer graphics and those towards commericial usage.

Has anyone noticed that the Turing cards look like Nvidia is now moving back to re-unifying both line-ups again?? Instead of wasted die space on the extra functionality laying unused,integrated into useful ways for games?

I could be wrong,but maybe Turing is as much about reducing the need to have so many different lines,as pushing ray tracing per se to games.

What are your thoughts on this?? Am I off the mark,here??
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
During Maxwell,Nvidia split its lines into ones more orientated towards consumer graphics and those towards commericial usage.

Has anyone noticed that the Turing cards look like Nvidia is now moving back to re-unifying both line-ups again?? Instead of wasted die space on the extra functionality laying unused,integrated into useful ways for games?

I could be wrong,but maybe Turing is as much about reducing the need to have so many different lines,as pushing ray tracing per se to games.

What are your thoughts on this?? Am I off the mark,here??
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depends, if it can handle 10bit display panels then maybe as currently only reserved for non gaming models
 
orbitalwalsh said:
8+2 bit or true 10 bit panels ? For the likes of screens that have 100% Adobe RGB cover ?

Why basic quadros are used
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My Dell U3014 is true 10-bit and I can select 10-bit output in the nVidia control panel. Test images confirm it.

It's either working in 10-bit, or it's doing such a good impersonation that it doesn't matter :P
 
spoffle said:
Back? It was only the Titan V they tried that with.
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Yes, back, the original Titan, Titan black and Titan Z were all strong compute cards as well as been gamer cards. The Titans released after that were pure gaming cards with the DP functionality stripped right down. Now the Titan V is back to been a workstation card you can game on like the original card. But, they are now marketing the Titan cards at professionals more than gamers.
 
+bringing NVLink to the cards and making the bridge less ridiculously priced. I think NVLink is potentially really interesting so looking forward to seeing what it can do!
 
melmac said:
Yes, back, the original Titan, Titan black and Titan Z were all strong compute cards as well as been gamer cards. The Titans released after that were pure gaming cards with the DP functionality stripped right down. Now the Titan V is back to been a workstation card you can game on like the original card. But, they are now marketing the Titan cards at professionals more than gamers.
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They were strong compute cards, definitely, but they were also definitely aimed at gamers.

The only reason they've aimed the Titan V at workstation stuff is so that they can add a price that suits.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
During Maxwell,Nvidia split its lines into ones more orientated towards consumer graphics and those towards commericial usage.

Has anyone noticed that the Turing cards look like Nvidia is now moving back to re-unifying both line-ups again?? Instead of wasted die space on the extra functionality laying unused,integrated into useful ways for games?

I could be wrong,but maybe Turing is as much about reducing the need to have so many different lines,as pushing ray tracing per se to games.

What are your thoughts on this?? Am I off the mark,here??
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The TU104s (2070 and 2080) are the mid/high range consumer chips, the 2080Ti's TU102 is a slightly cut down quadro RTX 8000 (95% of the quadro). They just brought both chips to the market at the same time. There is still room for them to do a titan with the full chip and 24GB of GDDR6, but it would be barely faster than the 2080Ti unless it clocked higher. The Tensor cores and RTX cores have been added to the mainstream chip to kick off the adoption of Raytracing and AI based supersampling. As the GPU market is getting to the point where within 2 generations even a mid range card will easily get 60fps+ at 4K, moving the technology on was necessary to enable higher quality graphics not just faster frame rates (And of course give Nvidia (and AMD) a roadmap whereby consumers were still going to want to upgrade.)

Kaapstad said:
Using very big chips in the Turing lineup must really knock the yields.
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It's a mature process so the yields are good. Power usage is high though.
 
melmac said:
Yes, back, the original Titan, Titan black and Titan Z were all strong compute cards as well as been gamer cards. The Titans released after that were pure gaming cards with the DP functionality stripped right down.
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IIRC Nvidia eventually launched updated drivers that unlocked compute on the later Titans as a knee jerk reaction to Vegas superior (compared to a gimped Titan) compute.
 
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