It doesn’t maintain such a commanding lead when AI denoising is enabled, especially when rendering with few passes. Then, when Quadro RTX-enabled software finally starts to ship, design viz folks will be able to generate photorealistic output even faster.Enscape provided two real world datasets for our tests – a large residential building and a colossal commercial development. What’s more, everything may change in Solidworks Visualize 2020 anyway, when we imagine the software will be able to harness the Quadro RTX’s Tensor Cores for deep learning.As touched on earlier, there are no commercially available applications that fully support Nvidia RTX, so for this review we tested with a range of professional applications for 3D CAD, real time visualisation, VR and ray trace rendering. But this has nothing to do with the capabilities of the RTX 4000.
The Quadro RTX 4000 is probably the best fit for AEC Magazine’s key audience of engineers and architects, and is the focus for this review. The workstation uses multiple NVME SSDs and is extremely fast. It’s designed specifically to overcome the challenges of using the GPU for really high-end rendering where the datasets can be incredibly complex.Nvidia has launched four Quadro RTX GPUs, from the mid-range to the high-end. The Quadro RTX 5000 is also DisplayPort 1.4 ready, while there is also support for HDMI 2.0b, HDR, Simultaneous Multi-Projection (SMP) and H.265 video en/decoding (PlayReady 3.0).In the following list you can select (and also search for) devices that should be added to the comparison. • Windows 10 Pro for WorkstationAt 4K, with AA set to medium, the RTX 4000 was the only GPU to give what we would describe as a fluent experience, only a touch below the ideal minimum of 24 FPS. Using the standard Solidworks graphics engine, performance was quite poor – between 3 and 4 FPS. Now, the Quadro RTX 4000 isn’t the most powerful GPU on the RTX platform but it hits a sweet spot with a price point right under $900. Depending on the application or game, the Quadro RTX 5000 is even faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 and therefore the fastest mobile graphics card. Compared to AMD, Nvidia hasn’t historically fared so well in multi-tasking workflows like this, but has this changed with the RTX 4000?We didn’t test the RTX 4000 in VR itself but from what we have observed previously with the P4000 and P5000, and taking into account its comparative performance in VRMark, we would imagine it will be a very good card for pro VR.There are no hard and fast rules here as to what the RTX 4000 will be able to handle in SolidWorks Visualize, but if you’re currently pushing the limits of other 8GB GPUs, such as the Quadro M4000 or P4000, then you’ll probably need to look at the 16GB Quadro RTX 5000 or even higher. With AA set to ‘off’ it dropped from 35 FPS to 22 FPS and with medium AA from 21 FPS down to 14 FPS.In Radeon ProRender for SolidWorks, an application whose benchmark scores are usually dominated by AMD, who develops the software, the RTX 4000 was about 20% faster than the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200.But the good news is, because the new Quadro RTX GPUs are a significant improvement over previous generations, this will be reason enough for many. In the V-Ray benchmark it was an impressive 25% faster than the P5000, although this is all about raw ray tracing performance as the benchmark doesn’t take advantage of the AI denoising capabilities of V-Ray NEXT.Quadro RTX is based on Nvidia’s new Turing architecture, which has been designed from the ground up for ray tracing and deep learning, a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We tested at both FHD (1,920 x 1,080) and 4K (3,840 x 2,160) resolution.In short, the RTX 4000 should be more than adequate for any CAD or BIM application. It’s certainly too early to judge it on this.The Quadro RTX 4000 (8GB GDDR6), RTX 5000 (16GB GDDR6) and RTX 6000 (24GB GDDR6) are essentially replacements for the Pascal-based Quadro P4000 (8GB GDDR5), P5000 (16GB GDDR5X) and P6000 (24GB GDDR5X). In fact, in almost all of our tests – pro viz, game engine viz, VR and GPU rendering, it also beat the Quadro P5000, which is a class above and still retails for well over £1,000.Users can also double the addressable memory by using two GPUs in the same workstation.