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Page 1 of 155 © Copyright Jon Peddie Research 2019 GPU Developments 2018 Table of Contents Executive Summary ..................................................................................................... 4 The GPUs of 2019 ......................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 7 Scope of this report ...................................................................................................... 8 First quarter 2018 ........................................................................................................................... 8 Intel’ prototype dGPU ................................................................................................................ 8 Intel improves GPU power management ................................................................................. 10 Imagination virtualizes its GPUs, automakers love it .............................................................. 12 GTC ’18: Pursuing and Exploiting the Intersection of Computer Graphics and AI ................ 14 Have a MacBook and want more (GPU power)? .................................................................... 25 Adjacent developments ............................................................................................................ 27 Chasing pixels ................................................................................................................................... 27 Realtime raytracing on your phone ................................................................................................... 29 Nvidia claims real-time ray tracing now possible ............................................................................. 31 Giant monitors .................................................................................................................................. 36 Intel’s amazing presentations ............................................................................................................ 37 It takes a lot of GPUs to do that ....................................................................................... 42 LG coolest of cool displays ............................................................................................................... 42 Those Ks – what is 5K, 8K and 3K? ................................................................................ 44 GDDR6 is available ......................................................................................................... 50 Second quarter 2016 .................................................................................................................... 52 All about the GPU — it has competition now ......................................................................... 52 Is it a revolution — or just evolution? ............................................................................. 53 Machine learning and AI .................................................................................................................. 54 Training ............................................................................................................................ 55 Inferencing ....................................................................................................................... 55 Internet of things ............................................................................................................................... 55 Robots ............................................................................................................................................... 55 Crypto-mining ................................................................................................................................... 55 Blockchain ........................................................................................................................................ 56 Raw power for IoT ............................................................................................................................ 56 Nvidia has the biggest one ....................................................................................................... 58 AMD vs. AMD ........................................................................................................................ 61 Matrox squeezes pixels from a 20-year old chip ..................................................................... 63 An AIB in a blink of the eye .................................................................................................... 65 Arm expands Bifrost to new Mali-G76 ................................................................................... 68 Huawei’s Honor GPU turbo ..................................................................................................... 71 Nvidia slows the pace, while AMD promise more .................................................................. 73 Qualcomm announces three new Snapdragon mobile platforms ............................................. 76 Adjacent developments ............................................................................................................ 77 Curvy 38-inch beauties ..................................................................................................................... 77 An in-depth look at the new SPECviewperf 13 benchmark for measuring graphics performance ... 78 Third quarter 2018 ....................................................................................................................... 84 Is it Time to Rename the GPU? ............................................................................................... 84 Page 2 of 155 © Copyright Jon Peddie Research 2019 GPU Developments 2018 Samsung takes on new GPU VP to take in-house GPU across finish line .............................. 85 Nvidia introduces Turing: The world’s first realtime ray tracing GPU ................................... 87 Introducing Nvidia Turing ................................................................................................................ 87 Realtime ray tracing five years ahead of schedule ............................................................................ 89 Quadro RTX ..................................................................................................................................... 90 VirtualLink