{"id":81817,"date":"2018-08-18T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/nvidias-new-turing-architecture-is-all-about-real-time-ray-tracing-and-ai"},"modified":"2018-08-18T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T18:43:12","slug":"nvidias-new-turing-architecture-is-all-about-real-time-ray-tracing-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/nvidias-new-turing-architecture-is-all-about-real-time-ray-tracing-and-ai","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia\u2019s new Turing architecture is all about real-time ray tracing and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3ue35ago3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In recent days, word about Nvidia\u2019s new Turing architecture started leaking out of the Santa Clara-based company\u2019s headquarters. So it didn\u2019t come as a major surprise that the company today announced during its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/\">Siggraph<\/a> keynote the launch of this new architecture and three new pro-oriented workstation graphics cards in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/design-visualization\/quadro-desktop-gpus\/#source=pr\">Quadro family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia describes the new Turing architecture as \u201cthe greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006.\u201d That\u2019s a high bar to clear, but there may be a kernel of truth here. These new Quadro RTx chips are the first to feature the company\u2019s new RT Cores. \u201cRT\u201d here stands for ray tracing, a rendering method that basically traces the path of light as it interacts with the objects in a scene. This technique has been around for a very long time (remember POV-Ray on the Amiga?). Traditionally, though, it was always very computationally intensive, though the results tend to look far more realistic. In recent years, ray tracing got a new boost thanks to faster GPUs and support from the likes of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"microsoft\">Microsoft,<\/a> which recently added ray tracing support to DirectX.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nvidias-new-turing-architecture-is-all-about-real-time-ray-tracing-and-ai2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/08\/13\/nvidias-new-turing-architecture-is-all-about-real-time-ray-tracing-and-ai\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/08\/13\/nvidias-new-turing-archite...ng-and-ai\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, word about Nvidia\u2019s new Turing architecture started leaking out of the Santa Clara-based company\u2019s headquarters. So it didn\u2019t come as a major surprise that the company today announced during its Siggraph keynote the launch of this new architecture and three new pro-oriented workstation graphics cards in its Quadro family. Nvidia describes the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}