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replacing GTX and Quadro
RTX replaced Nvidia’s Quadro workstation branding, but not GTX. Nvidia still maintains GeForce GTX product lines alongside RTX.
Full reasoning
NVIDIA’s own product pages contradict the claim that RTX replaced both GTX and Quadro.
- NVIDIA says explicitly that “NVIDIA Quadro is now NVIDIA RTX” for professional visualization products.
- But NVIDIA also still maintains a separate GeForce GTX 16 Series product family, which shows GTX was not replaced wholesale by RTX.
So the statement is too broad: RTX replaced Quadro branding in the workstation/professional line, but GTX remained a separate GeForce branding.
2 sources
- Quadro Legacy Graphics Cards, Workstations, and Laptops | NVIDIA
NVIDIA Quadro is now NVIDIA RTX ... professional visualization products are now branded as NVIDIA RTX™.
- GeForce GTX 16 Series Graphics Card | NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 16 Series ... Experience the powerful graphics performance of the award-winning NVIDIA Turing architecture with GeForce GTX 16 Series graphics cards and laptops.
Driveworks is an operating system for driverless cars.
DriveWorks is not Nvidia’s automotive operating system. Nvidia describes DriveWorks as a software development kit, while DRIVE OS is the operating system.
Full reasoning
This sentence mixes up two different NVIDIA automotive software products.
According to NVIDIA’s developer documentation:
- DriveWorks is the NVIDIA DriveWorks Software Development Kit (SDK), which provides algorithms and tools for autonomous-vehicle software development.
- DriveOS / DRIVE OS is the automotive operating system in the DRIVE stack.
So calling DriveWorks “an operating system” is incorrect; it is an SDK that sits on top of / works with DriveOS.
2 sources
- DriveWorks SDK | NVIDIA Developer
The NVIDIA DriveWorks Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a suite of accelerated algorithms and versatile tools to bootstrap software development for Autonomous Vehicles.
- NVIDIA DRIVE OS | NVIDIA Developer
NVIDIA DriveOS™ is an automotive operating system ... DriveWorks provides optimized algorithms and tools.
Nvidia only provides x86/x64 and ARMv7-A versions of its proprietary driver; as a result, features like CUDA are unavailable on other platforms.
Nvidia’s proprietary driver is not limited to x86/x64 and ARMv7-A. Nvidia publishes official Linux aarch64/ARM64 drivers, and CUDA’s Linux installation guide supports ARM64 platforms.
Full reasoning
NVIDIA’s own documentation contradicts this sentence.
- NVIDIA publishes official Linux-aarch64 (ARM64) Display Driver packages.
- NVIDIA’s CUDA Installation Guide for Linux lists supported ARM64-SBSA and Jetson ARM64 platforms.
That means the proprietary driver is not limited to x86/x64 and ARMv7-A, and CUDA is not unavailable outside those architectures. The statement appears to describe an older state of affairs and is no longer accurate.
2 sources
- Linux-aarch64 (ARM64) Display Driver | 570.124.04 | NVIDIA
Linux-aarch64 (ARM64) Display Driver ... Operating System: Linux aarch64.
- CUDA Installation Guide for Linux
The guide supports ... x86_64, ARM64-SBSA, and ARM64-Jetson architectures ... Table 1 lists arm64 systems (SBSA).
Nvidia released the RTX 2080 GPUs on September 27, 2018.
Nvidia announced GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti availability for September 20, 2018, not September 27.
Full reasoning
NVIDIA’s August 20, 2018 newsroom announcement for the GeForce RTX launch states that pre-orders began that day and availability started on Sept. 20 for the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080.
So the article’s release date of September 27, 2018 is incorrect for the RTX 2080 launch/availability date.
1 source
- 10 Years in the Making: NVIDIA Brings Real-Time Ray Tracing to Gamers with GeForce RTX | NVIDIA Newsroom
Pre-orders on nvidia.com ... starts today for GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080, with availability starting on Sept. 20.