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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 gamers still have to wait a little.

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Apparently you can do this with 4x TitanV which is $ 12k total.

citation: https://twitter.com/BrianKaris/status/977224198148931584

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

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.

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.

It’s not really enough for movies anymore. 4k is growing in popularity dramatically, and I for one am entirely sick of 24hz.

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.

$50,000, but still quite a ways from consumer level

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-v100-dgx-station-gp...

Ofcourse when you are a movie production company this will be no problem.

Oh, you'd be surprised.

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