PNY NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 - The World’S First Ray Tracing GPU

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Hardware support for VirtualLink — new open industry standard meets the power, display and bandwidth demands of next-generation VR headsets through a single USB-C connector 1. But the good news is, because the new Quadro RTX GPUs are a significant improvement over previous generations, this will be reason enough for many. Then, when Quadro RTX-enabled software finally starts to ship, design viz folks will be able to generate photorealistic output even faster. The Quadro RTX family Announced at Nvidia’s GTC event this year, the PCIe Gen 4 ‘Ampere’ Nvidia RTX A4000 and Nvidia RTX A5000 are the replacements for the PCIe Gen 3 ‘Turing’ Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 and Quadro RTX 5000, which launched in 2019. The embedded OpenCL Just-In-Time compiler will offer an opt-in version utilizing CLANG 7.0 and NVVM 7.0 components, providing support for 16-bit floating point and 128-bit integer data types. Overall, Nvidia has done an excellent job with its next generation pro GPU. Even without the future promise of RTX acceleration, it’s hugely impressive for the price and firmly cements the role of the GPU as a multi-functional processor and not just a graphics card for interactive 3D. It looks like it will still take Nvidia some time to truly deliver on its real time ray tracing vision, but it’s certainly on the right path.

Nvidia RTX is being used to massively accelerate classic viz focused ray trace renderers like V-Ray, KeyShot and Solidworks Visualize, which we test below. However, some of the more exciting developments are coming from the AEC sector in tools like Enscape, Chaos Vantage and Unreal Engine, which really make ray tracing ‘real-time’. Vantage, for example, is built from the ground up for real-time ray tracing so can maximise the usage of RT cores within the new GPUs. It was only when we set AA to ultra-high that the RTX 4000 struggled, going down from 9 FPS to 3 FPS. GPU memory possibly had an influence here as both individual processes – rendering in SolidWorks Visualize and real time viz in Autodesk VRED would have pushed GPU memory usage to well over 8GB. At SolidWorks World this month, there was a demo of a Tech Preview of SolidWorks Visualize 2020 which will have full support for Nvidia RT Cores to improve rendering performance when using Nvidia RTX GPUs. But this is not yet publicly available, so for our tests we used SolidWorks Visualize 2019 SP1 instead. This version doesn’t support Nvidia RT cores and can only utilise the GPU’s Nvidia CUDA cores. Quadro GV100, Quadro GP100, Quadro P6000, Quadro P5200, Quadro P5000, Quadro P4000, Quadro P2000, Quadro P1000, Quadro P620, Quadro P600, Quadro P400, Quadro M6000 24GB, Quadro M6000, Quadro M5000, Quadro M4000, Quadro M2000, Quadro K6000, Quadro K5200, Quadro K5000, Quadro K4000, Quadro K4200, Quadro K2200, Quadro K2000, Quadro K2000D, Quadro K1200, Quadro K620, Quadro K600, Quadro K420, Quadro 410 Two, it supports Nvidia RTX vWS (virtual workstation software) so it can deliver multiple high-performance virtual workstation instances that enable remote users to share resources. In the Lenovo ThinkStation P620, for example, you could get a very high density of CAD/BIM users who only need high-end RTX performance from time to time.NVIDIA ® Quadro ® RTX™ 4000 combines the NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture with the latest memory and display technologies, to deliver the best performance and features in a single-slot PCI-e form factor. Enjoy greater fluidity with photorealistic rendering, experience faster performance with AI-enabled applications and create detailed, lifelike VR experiences more cost-effectively and across a broader range of workstation chassis configurations. Supporting Models :P400, P600, P620, P1000, P2000, P4000, P5000, P6000, GP100, K420, K620, K1200, K2200, M4000, M5000

With many firms re-evaluating office space and working from home policies, we asked Adam Jull of IMSCAD about the role that virtual workstations can playDisplayPort 1.4 is standard across all four Quadro RTX GPUs. Also included is VirtualLink, a new open standard that can deliver power, display and data for next generation VR headsets through a single USB Type-C connector. Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 However, CAD applications are changing and, in the future, should be able to make much better use of the plentiful power of higher-end GPUs like the RTX A4000 and A5000. Both Autodesk with its new One Graphics System and Dassault Systèmes are currently working on new graphics engines that use more modern graphics APIs like Vulkan. This should not only improve general 3D performance but will make real-time ray tracing available directly in the viewport. So, while the RTX A4000 / A5000 might not give notable performance benefits in CAD right now, they could certainly do so in the future. For our tests we focused predominantly on SolidWorks Visualize. The name of this GPU-accelerated physically-based renderer is a bit misleading as it works with many more applications than the CAD application of the same name. It can import Creo, Solid Edge, Catia and Inventor, as well as several neutral formats. As you can imagine, the higher up the range you go, the more cores you get (CUDA, tensor & RT). All GPUs are rated by FP32 performance, a measure of their single precision compute capabilities (TFLOPs) based on their CUDA cores alone. This figure can be compared directly to previous generation Quadro products.

The Nvidia RTX A5000 supports all the same features as the Nvidia RTX A4000 but differs in two main areas. Multi-GPU Mosaic][Quadro Sync]: Application corruption and possible blue-screen crash occurs when enabling WARP while Mosaic and Quadro Sync are enabled. It’s a single slot card so will be available in a wide range of single CPU and dual CPU workstations. If you’re thinking of upgrading your current machine, you’ll need to make sure your PSU can handle its 165W power requirements. You’ll also need an 8-pin power connector. On test

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The Quadro RTX 4000 was significantly faster than all of the other GPUs but its advantage over the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 became even greater when real time AA was enabled.). Visit our booth to experience a real-time, immersive walkthrough powered by the Quadro RTX 4000. By deploying the Enscape3D plug-in and strapping on an HMD, you’ll step inside a full-scale Autodesk Revit model and make changes in real time. and higher multi-node training performance. GPU accelerated libraries such as cuDNN, cuBLAS, and TensorRT delivers

Support for the following audio modes: - Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, Multi-channel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), and MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AAC Both cards offer more memory than their consumer GeForce counterparts, are standard issue in workstations from Dell, HP and Lenovo, and come with pro drivers with ISV certification for a wide range of CAD/BIM applications. GPU rendering is nothing new; we’ve been writing about it in this magazine for ten years now. But 2019 could be the year that it really comes of age. While most of the renderers built into CAD applications still rely on the CPU, there are a growing number of impressive GPU renderers. These include SolidWorks Visualize, V-Ray NEXT GPU, Siemens Lightworks, Lumiscaphe, Catia Live Rendering or any renderer that uses Nvidia Iray. Even Luxion KeyShot, a die hard CPU renderer and one that is particuarly popular with product designers, was recently demonstrated running on Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 – SolidWorks VisualizeProduction Branch drivers are designed and tested to provide long-term stability and availability, making these drivers ideal for enterprise customers and other users who require application and hardware certification from ISVs and OEMs respectively. Redshift - support for Redshift RT, a real time rendering feature that allows 3D artists to visualize scenes in real time, omitting unnecessary wait times for renders to finalize Enscape provided two real world datasets for our tests – a large residential building and a colossal commercial development. The GPU memory requirements for these models are quite substantial. The residential building uses 2.8GB @ FHD and 4.5GB @ 4K, while the commercial development uses 5.5GB @ FHD and 6.9GB @ 4K. This was fine for our tests, as all five GPUs feature 8GB or more. For our tests, we used a large architectural scene of a museum and its surrounding area in Enscape 2.6 (non RTX). At 7.5GB, the GPU memory requirements of this model are relatively high, but Enscape models can be much larger.