Author Topic: Nvidia real-time raytracing  (Read 28289 times)

2018-09-25, 16:11:45
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Marian

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According to Linus, RTX series will not allow to share (expand) graphics memory through NVlink.
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2018-09-26, 08:19:48
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So far we've got confirmation from Nvidia that memory pooling isn't built into NVLink per say but the developers will have the option to implement it themselves.

To quote somebody from the GPU groups on other sites:
"Memory pooling is possible for GeForce RTX according Nvidia’s Director of Technical Marketing, Tom Peterson, during HotHardware on their 2.5 Geeks podcast:

Petersen explained that this would not be the case for GeForce RTX cards. The NVLink interface would allow such a use case, but developers would need to build their software around that function.

“While it's true this is a memory to memory link; I don't think of it as magically doubling the frame buffer. It's more nuanced than that today,” said Petersen.

According to Jules from OTOY NVLink memory pooling is going to be implemented in Octane 2018.1. I think ChaosGroup has hinted on doing that as well in some of their blog posts.

It is not a 100% but it does seem fairly clear still.
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2018-09-26, 11:54:41
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From what I can gather, memory pooling is not possible on the RTX cards with gaming due to the massive amounts of data throughput needed + not inducing realtime lag. For this to happen the NVlink bridge would need to be as fast as the GDDR6 chips to stop bottlenecking.

However rendering seems to be a different use case and should in theory be possible as it's not as hamstrung by realtime demands (and taking into account everything Vlado has mentioned in blog posts).
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2018-10-09, 21:49:25
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2018-10-12, 19:25:30
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2018-10-13, 11:55:28
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2018-10-13, 16:28:19
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some gpu benchmark testing


2018-10-15, 07:54:10
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There is this cool reddit topic (is it called a topic? Oh, nvm...) where this user "daffy_ch" is posting all the bits and pieces that devs / gpu renderirsters post online regarding the new RTX cards. I recommend checking it out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RenderToken/comments/9j0zdq/10_gigarays_translate_to_32_gigarays_in_real/
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