Octane and GTX 1080 release

[Goldorak]

We'll have a better idea of what optimizations we can make with Pascal later this month once 3.00 is out of beta.

[gabrielefx]

the most important question is:
can it run Crysis?...

[Seekerfinder]

We'll have a better idea of what optimizations we can make with Pascal later this month once 3.00 is out of beta.

Thanks Goldorak. My question again to Otoy would be: Do you guys always wait for the new GPU architecture to be publicly released like the rest of us before you can test Octane's performance? Don't you guys, as developers, have some early access to an SDK (or at least something like a whlte paper) from Nvidia the way for instance Autodesk plugin developers do, months before the release of a new version? Do you not have the benefit of testing the performance of Ocane before the release of a new core architectural change from Nvidia? I am curious to understand how this works.
Thanks,
Seeker

[Synthercat]

Check this out, I think it matters Octane a lot :
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-asy ... s-compute/

[pepasystem]

the most important question is:
can it run Crysis?...

+1

[Goldorak]

We'll have a better idea of what optimizations we can make with Pascal later this month once 3.00 is out of beta.

Thanks Goldorak. My question again to Otoy would be: Do you guys always wait for the new GPU architecture to be publicly released like the rest of us before you can test Octane's performance? Don't you guys, as developers, have some early access to an SDK (or at least something like a whlte paper) from Nvidia the way for instance Autodesk plugin developers do, months before the release of a new version? Do you not have the benefit of testing the performance of Ocane before the release of a new core architectural change from Nvidia? I am curious to understand how this works.
Thanks,
Seeker

We often do get a chance to test Octane's performance before new hardware is out, but not in every case.

[Seekerfinder]

We often do get a chance to test Octane's performance before new hardware is out, but not in every case.

Thanks Goldorak. I was referring to new architecture specifically. From Otoy's FAQ page: Octane scales linearly with the number of CUDA cores within a given GPU architecture

Sound like we're pretty much at Nvidia's mercy with respect to new tech. The 1080 looks like a great card. Hopefully we get a pleasant surprise with Cuda 8 (?) and Pascal.

Seeker

[smicha]

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