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Some context: those real-time renders are done on a $150,000 rig. Ofcourse when you are a movie production company this will be no problem. But I think most ga

by pasta 8y ago

Some context: those real-time renders are done on a $150,000 rig. Ofcourse when you are a movie production company this will be no problem. But I think most gamers still have to wait a little.

aspaceman 8y ago
Gamers will still see the effects of this power on lower quality rigs. Global illumination can be approximated by doing ray-tracing computations at the surface level rather than the image level. Modern-day games are approximating more and more complex effects in this way, and I personally think that the gap between a game like Nier Automata or The Witcher 3 (which both use a lot of global illumination but are still rasterized) and ray-traced images isn't that stark.
frenchie14 8y ago
$50,000, but still quite a ways from consumer level https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-v100-dgx-station-gpu,36616.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-v100-dgx-station-gp...
polskibus 8y ago
Apparently you can do this with 4x TitanV which is $ 12k total. citation: https://twitter.com/BrianKaris/status/977224198148931584 https://twitter.com/BrianKaris/status/977224198148931584
- Nokinside 8y ago
  This is the case for 5G ultra low latency and edge computing (as is VR). Move GPU units close to proximity and have 1-2 ms latency and you justify more expensive hardware compared to individual purchases.
- dmix 8y ago
  During the original presentation they said the demo video was using 2x Volta cards which is $3k each, so $6k in graphics cards. But I'd trust the guy on Twitter more than the marketing pitch. https://youtu.be/7dqOSTjpfOI?t=3m18s https://youtu.be/7dqOSTjpfOI?t=3m18s
- ksec 8y ago
  Interesting, he mentioned it was totally unoptimised at all. We should be able to get close to 4x the transistor count of Volta @ TSMC 7nm, sometime in 2020. But the 1080P and 24fps is only enough for movies, Gaming needs much higher then that.
  - jakear 8y ago
    It’s not really enough for movies anymore. 4k is growing in popularity dramatically, and I for one am entirely sick of 24hz.
Keyframe 8y ago
Ofcourse when you are a movie production company this will be no problem. Oh, you'd be surprised.

by pasta 8y ago

Some context: those real-time renders are done on a $150,000 rig. Ofcourse when you are a movie production company this will be no problem. But I think most gamers still have to wait a little.

aspaceman 8y ago

Gamers will still see the effects of this power on lower quality rigs. Global illumination can be approximated by doing ray-tracing computations at the surface level rather than the image level. Modern-day games are approximating more and more complex effects in this way, and I personally think that the gap between a game like Nier Automata or The Witcher 3 (which both use a lot of global illumination but are still rasterized) and ray-traced images isn't that stark.

frenchie14 8y ago

$50,000, but still quite a ways from consumer level https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-v100-dgx-station-gpu,36616.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-v100-dgx-station-gp...

polskibus 8y ago

Apparently you can do this with 4x TitanV which is $ 12k total. citation: https://twitter.com/BrianKaris/status/977224198148931584 https://twitter.com/BrianKaris/status/977224198148931584

Nokinside 8y ago
This is the case for 5G ultra low latency and edge computing (as is VR). Move GPU units close to proximity and have 1-2 ms latency and you justify more expensive hardware compared to individual purchases.
dmix 8y ago
During the original presentation they said the demo video was using 2x Volta cards which is $3k each, so $6k in graphics cards. But I'd trust the guy on Twitter more than the marketing pitch. https://youtu.be/7dqOSTjpfOI?t=3m18s https://youtu.be/7dqOSTjpfOI?t=3m18s
ksec 8y ago
Interesting, he mentioned it was totally unoptimised at all. We should be able to get close to 4x the transistor count of Volta @ TSMC 7nm, sometime in 2020. But the 1080P and 24fps is only enough for movies, Gaming needs much higher then that.
- jakear 8y ago
  It’s not really enough for movies anymore. 4k is growing in popularity dramatically, and I for one am entirely sick of 24hz.

Keyframe 8y ago

Ofcourse when you are a movie production company this will be no problem. Oh, you'd be surprised.