NVIDIA Announces Quadro And TITAN xP External GPU Solutions, OptiX 5.0 SDK (hothardware.com)

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NVIDIA Announces Quadro And TITAN xP External GPU Solutions, OptiX 5.0 SDK (hothardware.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday August 1, 2017 @02:40AM from the market-heating-up dept.

Brandon Hill, writing for HotHardware: AMD isn't the only hardware company making waves this week at SIGGRAPH 2017. NVIDIA is looking to bolster its position in the professional graphics arena with a few new breakthroughs. The first of which is the addition of two new external graphics solutions that are targeted at professional artists and designers who primarily work with notebooks. NVIDIA is making it possible for these professionals to use either Pascal-based TITAN xP or Quadro graphics cards within an external GPU (eGPU) enclosure. NVIDIA will be partnering with a number of hardware partners including Bizon, Magma, and Sonnet, who will make compatible solutions available in September. NVIDIA is also playing up two of its strengths in artifice intelligence (AI) by launching the OptiX 5.0 SDK. With version 5.0, the OptiX is gaining ray tracing support to help speed up processing with regards to visual designs. This new release also adds GPU-accelerated motion blur along with AI-enhanced denoising capabilities.

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NVIDIA the enemy of open source by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 02:45 · Score: 0

What kind of paranoid freaks run NVIDIA?
1. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by __aaclcg7560 · 2017-08-01 03:07 · Score: 1
  
  Those of us who ran into compatibility issues running id Software's "Rage" on the Radeon 7970 and AMD processor. You were lucky to get 1FPS once you got into the game. "Rage" ran fine with some minor visual artifacts on a nVidia 750 Ti video card.
2. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 03:24 · Score: 0
  
  Those of us who ran into compatibility issues running id Software's "Rage" on the Radeon 7970 and AMD processor. You were lucky to get 1FPS once you got into the game. "Rage" ran fine with some minor visual artifacts on a nVidia 750 Ti video card.
  Perhaps this was true years ago, however these kind of claims are silly now days. Open source AMD drivers now kick ass: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdgpu-radeonsi-384&num=1
3. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by __aaclcg7560 · 2017-08-01 03:33 · Score: 1
  
  Perhaps this was true years ago, however these kind of claims are silly now days.
  That issue never got fixed. I tested it a few years ago before the video card got fried from a broken fan. The solution was to get an Nvidia video card and/or an Intel processor.
4. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 05:51 · Score: 0
  
  Perhaps this was true years ago, however these kind of claims are silly now days.
  That issue never got fixed. I tested it a few years ago before the video card got fried from a broken fan. The solution was to get an Nvidia video card and/or an Intel processor.
  how do you know it never got fixed, if the last time you tried it was a few years ago? the post literally said "Perhaps this was true years ago, however these kind of claims are silly now days." meaning your view is literally of the past and not of the present.
5. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by __aaclcg7560 · 2017-08-01 07:07 · Score: 1
  
  how do you know it never got fixed, if the last time you tried it was a few years ago?
  The game got released in 2011. Still wasn't working in 2015, four years after the game got released. If you had a Radeon 7970 and an Intel processor, the game works fine. If you had a Radeon 7970 and a AMD processor, the game screws the pooch. This never got fixed by id Software.
6. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 07:32 · Score: 0
  
  Rage isn't open source, id Software is dying, and John Carmack's career is finished.
7. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 07:51 · Score: 0
  
  Nvidia cripples games, is the point. Intentionally. It's not an anti-AMD post.
8. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 11:39 · Score: 0
  
  Hey Chris, when you write
  "C.D. Reimer writes about the everyday reality that he finds weird, twisted and absurd for which most people accept as being perfectly normal. "
  What does "for which" mean?
9. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 12:59 · Score: 0
  
  Boooo! Shut up, grammar Nazi! Stop criticizing our creimer! You're worse than grammar Hitler!
10. Re:NVIDIA the enemy of open source by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-02 01:33 · Score: 0
  
  That's the problem; he's "our" creimer. His bullshit firehose sprays us every day. If he was "his" creimer and stayed in his shitty studio and edited his autistic videos by himself, Slashdot would be a better place!
  And this isn't a grammar issue, there's something wrong with creimer's brain.
"artifice intelligence"? Try harder Nvidiots. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 02:45 · Score: 0

There are enough invented buzzwords without you truncating and gluing them, thank you very much you greedy bitches. Don't you have a video game to cripple?
I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by pecosdave · 2017-08-01 03:00 · Score: 1

I have one of those Magma boxes at work and have considered shoving a graphics card in there just to see what happens, but I don't have time to just play.
Dell has something akin to that which looks really awesome to me and it has mostly good feedback, but it's a proprietary cable so it limits what you can do with it.
Thunderbolt 2, like my Magma box supports, just doesn't have the bandwidth to really do 3D right, but it's great for desktop.
Now - to get Intel to release their death-grip on Thunderbolt so AMD and ARM stuff can play also.

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1. Re:I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 03:24 · Score: 0
  
  The dock pictured is a recolored and photoshopped Razer Core. I know, I have one on my desk at home. Even TB3 is actually a bit slower than you want. If we had a TB4 which was 2x the speed of TB3 it'd be great, or if you could wire up 2x TB3 for 8 lanes of PCI Express 3.0, then that'd be great. But 4 lanes is little enough to hit performance bottlenecks on a GTX 970, much less one of the bigger cards.
  I do run keyboard/mouse/ethernet over my Core of course, but when playing Civ the network is inactive and relative to everything else the keyboard/mouse/etc are essentially nothing.
2. Re: I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 03:41 · Score: 0
  
  If you don't have time to just play then you are living wrong. Take a break and play.
3. Re:I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by rogoshen1 · 2017-08-01 03:41 · Score: 1
  
  Running an akitio node with a GTX 970 (TB3) -- gotta say it actually handles 1440p gaming fairly well. True, it's not yet a cost effective solution (probably cheaper to just build a mid-range tower) -- and there is a performance penalty (benchmarks indicate it's about 10-20% performance hit versus running the card over a pcie 16x slot) but if you've got the laptop, and a spare card, definitely breathes some extra life as far as 3d performance into a notebook.
  Definitely agree though, I think Intel has been holding back thunderbolt (licensing costs AFAIK are still pretty insane considering the cost of the hardware) -- probably because it has the potential to cannibalize their integrated graphics.
4. Re: I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by pecosdave · 2017-08-01 03:49 · Score: 1
  
  It is work.
  I don't have time to play while there isn't someone using the box in the studio.
  
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5. Re:I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 06:12 · Score: 0
  
  Doubt their worried about GPU competition. Typically Intel HD iGPU are used in low to mid-range laptops for cost saving measures. Though you will find them in high-end ultralights too with the emphasis on battery run-time. A dedicated GPU is used where there's a market 3D content creation and gaming, and the laptop will be primarily fixed with an AC adapter always plugged in anyways.
6. Re:I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by pecosdave · 2017-08-01 06:32 · Score: 1
  
  I looked that up - I like the looks of that thing.
  
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7. Re:I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by rogoshen1 · 2017-08-01 06:46 · Score: 1
  
  i think you're missing the point. now you can buy a laptop with a competent CPU, and whothefuckcares.jpg video (integrated, discrete.. doesn't matter) and just use an external enclosure over thunderbolt.
  So that ultrabook/convertible -- provided it has a good CPU, can be used as a full fledged gaming device without sacrificing form-factor to accommodate a bulky discrete GPU.
  Given that scenario, what purpose does intel's anemic integrated graphics serve? (or for that matter, a discrete, non-upgradeable, over-priced nvidia card?)
8. Re:I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 08:36 · Score: 0
  
  Alienware Graphics Amplifier owner checking in. It's awesome, but comes with one annoying downside. Any time it being used the ability to put your computer into sleep mode is removed. I think the idea is to help prevent people from forgetting the computer isn't turned off and yanking the link to the graphics amplifier (which is now treated as the onboard gpu).
9. Re:I hope this is Thunderbolt 3. by jabuzz · 2017-08-02 00:14 · Score: 1
  
  Explain how having an external box hooked up to your laptop for good 3D performance has not compromised the form factor of your "ultrabook/convertible"?
  What puzzle's me is if you need a GPU for computational reasons, how a small "server" does not beat the hell out of a box hooked up via a cable to your laptop is beyond me.
Re:You know what else is external? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 03:20 · Score: 0

MY BALLS!!! Suck 'em, nerds!
Your balls are tender and juicy...some of the best balls I've ever sucked!
And yet.... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 03:22 · Score: 0

....where, pray tell, is CUDA 9?
crickets chirping...chirp chirp
chirp **chirp**
Re:You know what else is external? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 03:56 · Score: 0

u shud b out with ur bros yo..
WHY? by Khyber · 2017-08-01 03:58 · Score: 1

Didn't nVidia claim their notebook GPUs were desktop class but with a lower clock instead of half the core count to make up for the power efficiency?
What's the fucking point of eGPUs now, unless you're using an APPLE PRODUCT?

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1. Re:WHY? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 04:13 · Score: 0
  
  The video card in my macbook pro would probably shit all over whatever low-class crap is in other notebooks these days.
2. Re:WHY? by TigerTime · 2017-08-01 05:02 · Score: 1
  
  Not all laptops come with nVidia GPUs. There are WAY more sold with integrated Intel Graphics than there are with nVidia.
3. Re:WHY? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 05:59 · Score: 0
  
  doubt it, but do flame on, it's quite funny to hear how superior your macbook pro's graphics card is compared to the new laptops with Nvidia gtx 1080 built in graphics cards, like these.
  https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj66dqjzrbVAhWLFj4KHcDhD3gQFgh9MAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fgeforce%2Fproducts%2F10series%2Flaptops%2Fmax-q%2F&usg=AFQjCNEmGGfTeQZ7hNNfKgwnwmZRDTdCRw
4. Re:WHY? by erapert · 2017-08-01 05:59 · Score: 1
  
  What if I want to do some 3D work or run several 4k monitors or even (gasp!) play some games using an ultrabook?
bamboozled again! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 04:07 · Score: 0

artifice intelligence (AI)

Yes, artifice is most usually intelligent, isn't it?
Re:You know what else is external? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 04:15 · Score: 0

Your balls provide a whole new dimension to tea bagging. By the way, what is that delicious "chocolate" coating made of?
Re:You know what else is external? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 04:28 · Score: 0

tasty balls fer sure gonna get me some
Re:You know what else is external? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 04:45 · Score: 0

my poo
Re:You know what else is external? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-01 08:25 · Score: 0

Your poo? Ingenious! Who would have thought such a thing were possible! Bravo. The bitter piquant flavor offset by the hint of sweetness, and last night's lingering nose of hops, gives it that je ne sais quoi that is marvelous, scrumptiously marvelous!