09-27-2018, 08:25 PM
https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2018/0...lows-1233/
Quote:What NVIDIA is presenting with the RT cores in their new Turing GPU architecture is a way to achieve much more natural results natively. With this new hardware, they claim the above scenarios will “just work” in real time. We still need to see how this plays out with final hardware and software updates, but the potential benefits are enormous.
The video game industry is already jumping into this tech, but since they will still need to support older, non-RTX hardware for quite a while, they will still need to use their current workflows until RTX enabled hardware becomes widespread. However, as this technology gains support in professional applications, someone working in architectural visualization could potentially use it to go from their blueprints to final render much faster with more lifelike results. Since this would all work in real time, they can be sitting with their client and change materials, add furniture, move walls, etc - and everything will update live. A studio producing a weekly animated show might be able to render the entire episode in real time, allowing them to spend more time in production. Even high end movie studios, which will likely still rely on traditional raytraced renderers, could have a near final graphics “preview” with the ability to make significant visual changes and not have to wait to re-render everything.
This only scratches the surface of what creative studios will accomplish with these cards. We have yet to see how the new RT Cores will improve traditional raytraced rendering. Or what the scientific communities will do with Tensor cores, which are making their mainstream debut in the GeForce RTX series. The potential presented by these cards reaches far beyond the benchmarks of old-school rasterized game technology which most people are focused on.