Announced last week at the 2018 Game Developers Conference, RTX is NVIDIA’s somewhat ill-defined hardware acceleration backend for real-time raytracing. However the GV100’s bigger calling within NVIDIA’s ecosystem is that it’s now the only Quadro card using the Volta architecture, meaning it’s the only card to support hardware raytracing acceleration, vis a vie NVIDIA’s RTX technology. Among other things, NVIDIA is once again big into virtual reality this year, so the GV100 just became their flagship VR card, a convenient timing for anyone looking for a fast card to drive the just-launched HTC Vive Pro. As we’ve already seen with the Titan V in the prosumer space – NVIDIA dodging expectations by releasing the prosumer Volta card first and ProViz card second – the Titan V can be a good deal faster than any of the Pascal cards assuming that software is either designed to take advantage of the architecture, or at least meshes well with NVIDIA’s architectural upgrades. More importantly though, the Quadro GV100 continues the new tradition of shipping with 2 NVLink connectors, meaning a pair of the cards can be installed in a system and enjoy the full benefits of the interface, particularly low latency data transfers, remote memory access, and memory pooling.Īt a high level, the Quadro GV100 should easily be the fastest Quadro card, a distinction the GP100 didn’t always hold versus its pure graphics siblings, and that alone will undoubtedly move cards. Like the Quadro GP100’s compute features, the tensor cores aren’t expected to be applicable to all situations, but there are some professional visualization scenarios where NVIDIA expects it to be of value. On the features front, the card also ships with NVIDIA’s tensor cores fully enabled, with performance again in the ballpark of the Tesla V100. This finally gets an NVIDIA professional visualization card to 32GB the GP100 was limited to 16GB, and the Quadro P6000 tops out at 24GB. And like the capacity-bumped Tesla cards, the Quadro GV100 ships with 32GB of natively ECC-protected HBM2. This is only a hair below the mezzanine Tesla V100, and ahead of the PCIe variant. The official specifications for the card put it at 14.8 TFLOPs of single precision performance, which works out to a fully-enabled GV100 GPU clocked at around 1.45GHz. While NVIDIA’s pre-brief announcement doesn’t mention whether the Quadro GP100 is being discontinued, the Quadro GV100 is none the less the de facto replacement for NVIDIA’s last current-generation Big Pascal card. The introduction of the Quadro GV100 in turn looks to maintain status quo here, delivering an even more powerful Quadro card with chart-topping graphics performance, but also the GV100’s GPU’s strong compute heritage. Previously the king of all NVIDIA cards, instead the Quadro family itself has been bifurcated a bit, between the compute GPU-derrived cards like the Quadro GP100 and now GV100, and the more pure graphics cards like the P-series. Aptly named the Quadro GV100, this is the successor to last year’s Quadro GP100, and marks the introduction of the Volta architecture into the Quadro family.Īs a consequence of NVIDIA’s GPU lines bifurcating between graphics and compute, in the last couple of years the Quadro family has been in an odd spot where it straddles the line between the two. ![]() Along with today’s memory capacity bump for the existing Tesla V100 cards, NVIDIA is also rolling out a new Volta-based card for the Quadro family.
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