NVIDIA RTX technology in Unreal Engine ‘The Speed of Light’ for Porsche 911 Speedster Concept

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At the SIGGRAPH 2018 conference, Porsche's collaboration with Epic and NVIDIA has exceeded all expectations from both a creative and technological perspective by introducing "The Speed of Light," a real-time cinematic experience utilizing NVIDIA Turing architecture, RTX technology and new Unreal Engine rendering advancements, featuring the Porsche 911 Speedster Concept. The forward-looking technology unveiled onstage is the culmination of a joint development effort to unlock offline-quality ray-traced rendering in a game engine.
"The Porsche 911 Speedster Concept is the first car to be visualized with interactive real-time ray tracing," said Francois Antoine, Director of HMI at Epic Games, and creative director and VFX supervisor on the project. "In concert with NVIDIA we’re accelerating the adoption of real-time ray tracing across many industries.”


“The Speed of Light” demo debuted running on two NVIDIA Quadro RTX cards. New Unreal Engine features demonstrated include:

  -Ray-traced translucency
  -Ray-traced rectangular area light shadows
  -Ray-traced reflections
  -Ray-traced diffuse global illumination
  -Dynamic textured area lights

“NVIDIA RTX technology is purpose-built to provide a generational leap in the quality of real-time computer graphics, and ‘The Speed of Light’ perfectly demonstrates that we are delivering on our promises,” said Tony Tamasi, SVP of Content and Technology at NVIDIA. “With Unreal Engine it’s possible to create physically-accurate, realistic scenes that feature a level of fidelity and detail we’ve previously only been able to imagine.”

NVIDIA RTX technology is Nvidia's next-generation Turing graphics architecture. Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says these two specialized compute engines, alongside general compute improvements, will deliver new levels of hybrid rendering. In this initial announcement at least, Nvidia is focusing on the visual effects industry, with promises of “cinematic-quality interactive experiences, amazing new effects powered by neural networks and fluid interactivity on highly complex models.”

According to Nvidia, the first three Turing-based graphics cards to arrive will be the Quadro RTX 8000, the RTX 6000, and the RTX 5000. Nvidia estimates that the RTX 8000 will carry a street price of $10,000 followed by the RTX 6000 for $6,300 and the RTX 5000 for $2,300.

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