CRN's 2019 Products Of The Year

PROCESSORS

NVIDIA TITAN RTX

WINNER: OVERALL

Nvidia’s flagship Titan RTX desktop GPU delivers massive performance for demanding applications such as artificial intelligence research, data science and content creation. The GPU builds off Nvidia’s AI-boosted Turing graphics processor architecture. The Titan RTX includes 576 multi-precision Turing Tensor Cores for deep-learning performance, and 24 Gigabytes of high-speed GDDR6 memory—double the memory of last-generation Titan GPUs. The Titan RTX ultimately delivers 130 teraflops of deeplearning performance. Meanwhile, the Titan RTX includes 72 Turing RT cores for ray-tracing performance, the next-generation rendering technique that realistically models how light interacts with objects to produce cinema-quality graphics in real time.

Subcategory Winner—Technology: Intel Xeon Scalable, 2nd Gen

Via Intel’s Deep Learning Boost technology, the second-generation Xeon Scalable processors are the first to feature built-in inference acceleration for artificial intelligence workloads. The highestperformance processor in the series is the Xeon Scalable Platinum 9200, which offers up to 56 cores and a design that gives each CPU core access to expanded memory interfaces.

Subcategory Winner—Revenue and Profit: AMD EPYC, Second Generation

AMD’s second-generation EPYC processors are the industry’s first 7-nanometer server CPUs, designed to enable high-performance workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. They feature up to 64 cores with base frequencies of up to 3.2GHz.