Next-gen gaming with the GeForce RTX 2060
The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 puts Turing architecture GPUs within reach of tens of millions PC gamers worldwide. The RTX 2060 GPU delivers exceptional performance on modern games, with graphics enhanced by ray tracing and AI. Priced at US$349, the RTX 2060 enables new levels of performance and features previously available only in high-end gaming GPUs.
The RTX 2060 is 60% faster on current titles than the prior-generation GTX 1060, NVIDIA’s most popular GPU, and beats the game play of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti*. With Turing’s RT Cores and Tensor Cores, it can run Battlefield V with ray tracing at 60 frames per second.
The RTX 2060 will be available globally starting January 15 from every major original equipment manufacturer (OEM), system builder and graphics card partner.
“Next-gen gaming starts today for tens of millions of gamers everywhere,” said Huang, who unveiled the RTX 2060 at the start of the CES tradeshow. “Desktop gamers are demanding, and the RTX 2060 sets a new standard — an unbeatable price, extraordinary performance and real-time ray tracing that blurs the distinction between movies and games. This is a great moment for gamers and our industry.”
NVIDIA GeForce RTX powers record number of new gaming laptops
NVIDIA announced that 40 new laptop models from every major OEM will be available later this month based on its Turing GPU architecture — including the fastest, thinnest and lightest systems ever created. They will be powered by NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, which fuse the performance of next-generation shaders with real-time ray tracing and AI to blur the line between movies and games with cinematic-quality rendering.
GeForce RTX: the best for today’s games, ready for tomorrow
New games and demos already feature RTX ray tracing and deep learning super-sampling (DLSS) technology, including Battlefield V, Anthem, Justice and Atomic Heart.
Expansion of G-SYNC monitor ecosystem, new G-SYNC and BFGD displays
NVIDIA is expanding the G-SYNC ecosystem with a new G-SYNC Compatible validation programme. G-SYNC Compatible monitors will deliver a baseline variable refresh rate experience on GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards, and activate their vertical refresh rate (VRR) features automatically.
In addition, HP has announced that the world’s first BFGD (big format gaming display) utilising G-SYNC HDR, and it will be shipping next month.
On January 8, NVIDIA announced the world’s first commercially available Level 2+** automated driving system, NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot, which integrates multiple breakthrough AI
technologies that will enable supervised self-driving vehicles to go into production by next year.
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At CES 2019, automotive suppliers Continental and ZF announced Level 2+ self-driving
solutions based on NVIDIA DRIVE, with production starting in 2020.
As a Level 2+ self-driving solution, NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot uniquely provides both world-class autonomous driving perception and a cockpit rich in AI capabilities. Vehicle manufacturers can use it to bring to market sophisticated automated driving features — as well as intelligent cockpit assistance and visualisation capabilities — that surpass today’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) offerings in performance, functionality and road safety.
“A full-featured, Level 2+ system requires significantly more computational horsepower and
sophisticated software than what is on the road today,” said Rob Csongor, VP of Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA.
“NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot provides these, making it possible for carmakers to quickly deploy advanced autonomous solutions by 2020 and to scale this solution to higher levels of autonomy faster.”
DRIVE AutoPilot integrates for the first time high-performance NVIDIA Xavier system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors and the latest NVIDIA DRIVE software to process many deep neural networks (DNNs) for perception, complete surround camera sensor data from outside the vehicle and inside the cabin, enable full self-driving autopilot capabilities, including highway merge, lane change, lane splits, and personal mapping. Inside the cabin, features include driver monitoring, AI copilot capabilities and advanced in-cabin visualisation of the vehicle’s computer vision system.
DRIVE AutoPilot is part of the open NVIDIA DRIVE platform, which is being used by hundreds of companies worldwide to build autonomous vehicle solutions that increase road safety while reducing
driver fatigue and stress on long drives or in stop-and-go traffic. The new Level 2+ system complements the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus system that provides Level 5 capabilities for robotaxis.
DRIVE AutoPilot addresses the limitations of existing Level 2 ADAS, which a recent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study showed inconsistent vehicle detections and poor ability to stay within lanes on curvy or hilly roads, resulting in a high occurrence of system disengagements where the driver abruptly had to take control***.
“Lane keeping and adaptive cruise control systems on the market today are simply not living up to the expectations of consumers,” said Dominique Bonte, VP, Automotive Research, at ABI
Research. “The high-performance AI solutions from NVIDIA will deliver more effective active safety and more reliable automated driving systems in the near future.”
Central to NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot is the Xavier SoC, which delivers 30 trillion operations per second (TeraOps) of processing capability. Architected for safety, Xavier has been designed for redundancy and diversity, with six types of processors and 9 billion transistors that enable it to process vast amounts of data in real time.
Xavier is the world’s first automotive-grade processor for autonomous driving and is in production
today. Global safety experts have assessed its architecture and development process as suitable for
building a safe product.
The DRIVE AutoPilot software stack integrates DRIVE AV software for handling challenges outside the vehicle, as well as DRIVE IX software for tasks inside the car.
DRIVE AV uses surround sensors for full, 360-degree perception and features highly accurate localisation and path-planning capabilities. These enable supervised self-driving on the highway, from on-ramp to off-ramp. Going beyond basic adaptive cruise control, lane keeping and automatic emergency braking, its surround perception capabilities handle situations where lanes split or merge, and safely perform lane changes.
DRIVE AV also includes a diverse and redundant set of advanced DNN technologies that enable the
vehicle to perceive a wide range of objects and driving situations, including DriveNet, SignNet, LaneNet, OpenRoadNet, and WaitNet. This sophisticated AI software understands where other vehicles are, reads lane markings, detects pedestrians and cyclists, distinguishes different types of lights and their colours, recognises traffic signs and understands complex scenes.
In addition to providing precise localisation to the world’s HD maps, for vehicle positioning on the road, DRIVE AutoPilot offers a new personal mapping feature called My Route, which remembers where the driver has driven to, and can create a self-driving route even if no HD map is available.
Within the vehicle, DRIVE IX intelligent experience software enables occupant monitoring to detect
distracted or drowsy drivers and provide alerts, or take corrective action if needed. It is also used to
create intelligent user experiences, including the new ability for augmented reality. Displaying a
visualisation of the surrounding environment sensed by the vehicle, as well as planned route, instills
trust in the system.
For next-generation user experiences in the vehicle, the AI capabilities of DRIVE IX can also be used to accelerate natural language processing, gaze tracking or gesture recognition.
Continental is developing a scalable and affordable automated driving architecture that will bridge from Premium Assist to future automated functionalities. It uses Continental’s portfolio of radar, lidar, camera, and automated driving control unit technology powered by NVIDIA DRIVE.
“Today’s driving experience with advanced driver assistance systems will be brought to the next level, creating a seamless transition from assisted to automated driving and defining a new standard,” said Karl Haupt, head of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems business unit at Continental.
“Driving will become an active journey, keeping the driver responsible but reducing the driving task to supervision and relaxation.”
ZF ProAI offers a modular hardware concept and open software architecture, utilising NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier processors and DRIVE Software.
“Our aim is to provide the widest possible range of functions in the field of autonomous driving,”
explained Torsten Gollewski, head of ZF Advanced Engineering and general manager of ZF Zukunft
Ventures. “The ZF ProAI product family offers an open platform for the customised integration of software algorithms – covering conventional functions as well as AI algorithms and software running on NVIDIA DRIVE.”
*In a comparison across 23 benchmarks and games at 2,560x1,440 resolution, the RTX 2060 on average is 60% faster than the original GTX 1060. Tests included but are not limited to: Ashes of the Singularity, Battlefield V, Deus Ex: Mankind, The Division, Doom, Fallout 4, Far Cry 5, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Hitman 2, Hitman Pro, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, PUBG, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Sniper Elite 4, Strange Brigade, VRMark, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Wolfenstein II and Unigine Superposition.
**There are five levels of autonomous driving, as BMW explains.
***IIHS examines driver assistance features in road, track tests, August 7, 2018.
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