Piotr Wozniacki wrote: But there is also the aspect of being future proof which is even more important to me
Hi.
It will be very difficult to be future proof, specially in the next 3 years due to the following reasons.
First let us take this from nVidea, with the heading 'World’s Top Graphics Software Companies Are Already Adopting NVIDIA RTX Capabilities.'
Quote: 'Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve: World’s most popular color-grading application, using Turing Tensor Cores in Resolve 15 to accelerate AI inferencing for graphics enhancement.'
From:
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/08/1 ... y-support/We already know from nVideas Tom Petersen, that the Tensor cores are exposed to to CUDA. But we don't know how far BMD is?
Its it valid for all Resolves ver 15? Or from what version.
What functions will use Tensor cores? Will The OpenCL versions have the same functions, but just slower?
There is a lot of unanswered questens?
If BMD is not in a position where there can answer all the questens. Will I suggest they give us a hint in the next Resolve 15 configuration guide. What to buy?
I don't know if the rumors for new 7nmGraphics Cards is for nVidea or AMD Cards. Personally I will not expect a new Graphics line from nVidea before at least this time next year, as they just begin to deliver the RTX 2080/Ti's. And I expect AMD to do what they did last time. VEGA was a side product from the Graphics Card AMD made for Apple. And I expect NAVI will also be a side product for the next Sony PS5, that first is expected to the end of 2019. So I am sorry, but I can't see any new Graphics Card Line for Gamers in early 2019.
But what we also must not forget, is the new PCIe specifications PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0. The PCIe 4.0 specification have been delayed several times and is very late. And PCIe 5.0 is on schedule. So it is not expected that PCIe 4.0 to be long lived. The PCIe 4.0 Final specification was published in 2017 and the final PCIe 5.0 specification is on schedule for 2019. It will then normally take two additional years before we will see motherboards and graphics cards with it.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11967/pc ... ie-40-specI don't know often you upgrade your Graphics cards?
But I hope most of you, will go from PCIe 3.0 graphics cards and direct up to PCIe 5.0 Graphics cards. And of cause also motherboards.
Regards Carsten.