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Is anything known about the number of tensor cores in the new 2080 Ti? What about the float16 performance using the Tensor cores? I couldn't find this on the spec page [1].

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...

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I got this response from Nvidia customer care concerning these questions:

"Hello Freddy,

Thus far we do not have any information from PR / Marketing on GeForce GTX 20 series Tensor core nor float16 compute performance.

If or when such information is available from them we would be glad to discuss it.

Best Regards, Troy NVIDIA Customer Care L2"

A couple of sites have said 384 TC's, which would be approximately ~50% of the v100/new high-end Quadro card. Would like to see a confirmed source as well.

Yeah, it seems at the moment that there's no confirmation on to what degree they're actually enabled either. It may well be that NVidia will make them available for inference via DirectX so they can do AI based denoising and anti aliasing in games but artificially limit support in frameworks for training so as not to eat into the Quadro / Tesla markets. I'm holding off on ordering one until I see more info on that.

> It may well be that NVidia will make them available for inference via DirectX so they can do AI based denoising and anti aliasing in games but artificially limit support in frameworks for training so as not to eat into the Quadro / Tesla markets. I'm holding off on ordering one until I see more info on that.

Good point, that would not be cool. I'll wait with ordering until more is known about this.

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