Revolutionary Real-Time Ray Tracing Acceleration

Incorporating new hardware-based ray tracing engines, Turing is the industry’s first graphics processor enabling real-time ray tracing. A single Quadro RTX 8000 board can render complex professional models with physically accurate shadows, reflections, and refractions to empower users with instant insight. Working in concert with applications leveraging APIs such as NVIDIA OptiX, Microsoft DXR and Vulcan ray tracing, systems based on Quadro RTX 8000 will power truly interactive design workflows to provide immediate feedback for unprecedented levels of productivity.

Enhanced Tensor Cores

Purpose-built for deep learning matrix arithmetic at the heart of neural network training and inferencing functions, Turing GPUs include enhanced Tensor Cores that accelerate FP16 / FP32 matrix operations in addition to INT8 and two new INT4 and INT1 (binary) precision modes. Independent floating-point and integer data paths allow more efficient execution of workloads using a mix of computation and addressing calculations.

Advanced Shading Technologies

Mesh Shading provides a compute-based geometry pipeline to speed processing and culling for geometrically complex models and scenes to improve performance by up to 2x. Motion Adaptive Shading offers more granular control over how GPU horsepower is distributed (i.e. more cycles applied on the detailed areas of a scene and fewer on the less detailed areas) to increase performance and at the same image quality, or produce similar image quality with 50% reduction time to generate shaded pixels. Especially useful for VR experiences, Texture Space Shading enables shading and geometry samples to be processed at different rates for more efficient execution.

Encode/Decode Engine Enhancementⁱ

H.264 encode bitrate/quality improvements to modulate performance to reduce bitrate (e.g. ~6% at the same performance level, ~11% with reduced performance).

• Vidmem output for encoded bitstream and motion vectors to accelerate post-processing for end-to-end GPU workflows.
• Optical flow at 4×4 granularity for improved video frame interpolation/extrapolation, object tracking, motion segmentation, action recognition, etc.
• I-frame only decode for H.264 and HEVC to allow inferencing with I-frame only to speed use cases such as video surveillance.
• P9 10-/12-bit decode to enable VP9 HBD content decoding.

High Speed GDDR6 Memory

Built with 48GB of state-of-the-art GDDR6 memory delivering 55% greater throughput than the previous-generation GDDR5x technology, Quadro RTX 8000 provides the industry’s largest graphics memory footprint to address the largest datasets and models in latency-sensitive professional applications.

Error Correcting Code (ECC) on Graphics Memory

Meet strict data integrity requirements for mission critical applications with uncompromised computing accuracy and reliability for workstations.

Advanced Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) Architecture

Building upon the major SM enhancements from the Volta GPU, the Turing architecture is up to 50% more energy efficient than the previous generation Pascal design to enable major gains in performance within the same power envelope.

Graphics Preemption

Pixel-level preemption provides more granular control to better support time-sensitive tasks such as VR motion tracking.

Compute Preemption

Preemption at the instruction-level provides finer grain control over compute tasks to prevent long-running applications from either monopolizing system resources or timing out.