Interesting Keynote speech from Nvidia at Siggraph

[Bill Davis]

Yep. Huge leap.

I heard the cards will be about $10k each at launch. Hopefully the technology scales rapidly and gets down into the kind of pricing where it can spread wider, faster.

Usually happens. Time will tell.

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[Michael Hancock]

The $10K price is referencing the Quadro RTX8000 with 48GB of VRAM. The cards are estimated to start at $2,300 with the RTX5000 (16GB).

Scroll down for pricing:
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-unveils-quadro-rtx-worlds-first-ray-tracing-gpu

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Oliver Peters]

Of course, it’s kind of irrelevant in this forum, since Apple doesn’t seem to like Nvidia any longer.

– Oliver

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[Mark Suszko]

I’d expect to see entrepreneurs marketing the cards and gear on a lease basis. Create now, pay later.

[Bernard Newnham]

I imagine that the big money for Nvidia is still in the consumer PC market – and maybe currently Bitcoin mining – so wait 18 months and you’ll be able to slot a GTX something into your editing machine at reasonable cost.

Bernie

[Shawn Miller]

I think anything under $5k US for real time ray tracing is a no brainer for a large number of 3D/VR content creators and artists. These things are going to fly off the shelves at $2,300 and $5,000. It looks like the developers of the most popular 3rd party renderers and Epic (Unreal) have already signed off. I imagine a lot of the online render services will also be quick to jump on board. This is huge.

Shawn

[Scott Witthaus]

[Oliver Peters] “Of course, it’s kind of irrelevant in this forum”

Now THAT made me laugh!!

SIGGRAPH was a very cool show. Immersive experiences are getting more and more amazing, and some of the emerging tech made my head spin. Unity displayed some amazing pre-vis technology as well. BMD was there demoing the new eGPU’s and even had a Resolve demo, which (to be expected at a show like this) was sparsely attended which made it much better for all who DID attend.

Definitely will be back next year.

Scott Witthaus
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[Michael Gissing]

[Bernard Newnham] “I imagine that the big money for Nvidia is still in the consumer PC market – and maybe currently Bitcoin mining – so wait 18 months and you’ll be able to slot a GTX something into your editing machine at reasonable cost.”

Maybe you only need wait another week to hear about the RTX 2080ti which will be half the price of the Quadro’s and likely available just as soon.

[Michael Gissing]

I’m getting deja vu
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/102368

[Steve Connor]

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/08/14/red-digital-cinema-nvidia-8k/