{"id":6149,"date":"2019-10-15T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:34:01","slug":"solidworks-visualize-introduces-nvidia-rtx-acceleration-with-up-to-50-percent-faster-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/10\/solidworks-visualize-introduces-nvidia-rtx-acceleration-with-up-to-50-percent-faster-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Visualize Introduces NVIDIA RTX Acceleration With up to 50 Percent Faster Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2020 SP0 is the first publicly available production release of SOLIDWORKS Visualize to take full advantage of NVIDIA RTX technology. Built on the NVIDIA Iray SDK, Visualize now leverages Tensor Cores and RT Cores within NVIDIA Quadro RTX <\/a>GPUs\u00a0to deliver the highest quality photo-realistic product images with near real-time ray tracing and AI denoising<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In our own performance benchmarks, we\u2019ve seen an average of 30% speed improvements with Visualize 2020 over 2019 SP4 on the same RTX hardware! Some scenes show improvements of up to 50%! That\u2019s a remarkable increase in render performance.<\/p>\n

To put this in perspective, an HD-sized image that took five minutes to render will now complete in 2-3 minutes. While notable in its own right, it\u2019s even more impressive when you consider a long animation, which consists of hundreds or thousands of images. A 10-second long animation that took a full day to complete, will now finish in around half a day.<\/p>\n

The following scenes render 30 percent faster with full RTX acceleration in Visualize 2020:<\/p>\n

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Figure 1- NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 : HD-size : 1000 Passes : 60 seconds (~35% faster than 2019 sp04)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Figure 2 \u2013 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 : HD-size : 1000 Passes : 2 minutes (~30% faster than 2019 sp04)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Turn on the real-time<\/strong><\/p>\n

With such fast performance on NVIDIA Quadro RTX hardware, we\u2019ve exposed the ability to specify at which render pass the AI denoiser will turn on in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2020.<\/p>\n

Previously hardcoded to pass 10, you can now set this to anything you like, including just one pass!\u00a0 Combine this with setting the Interactivity Acceleration Mode to \u201cSteady,\u201d and you can truly experience real-time ray tracing!<\/p>\n

Check out the image of this storm trooper helmet after just a single rendering pass<\/strong> on an NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000. Noise-free!<\/p>\n

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Figure 3 \u2013 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 : 1 Render Pass at HD resolution Model courtesy of Bill Hamze, JL Audio, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Check out this Real-time Turntable of the same storm trooper helmet, also with the AI Denoiser set to turn on at just one pass. \u00a0Now that\u2019s real-time raytracing!<\/p>\n