Nvidia's RTX 2080, RTX 2080 Ti Cards Arrive Sept. 20

Nvidia'southward adjacent-generation gaming graphics cards, the RTX 20 serial, will launch on Sept. xx with a pair of products that'll showtime at $699.

The first batch of RTX GPUs, announced Monday, promise to bring "the biggest generational spring" in gaming graphics history, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. "Reckoner graphics will never be the same once again," he said at the Gamescom conference in Deutschland.

The RTX twenty series will offer up to a six-time performance boost over Nvidia GPUs congenital with the older Pascal compages, which was announced in 2022 and is used in the current GTX 10 lineup. The new cards volition also characteristic faster GDDR6 memory, which will enable players to run games at 4K resolution at 60 frames per seconds for even high-stop gaming titles.

Nvidia RTX Breakdown

The almost powerful of the ii cards arriving next month, the RTX 2080 Ti, will start at $999. Meanwhile, the RTX 2080, will become for $699. A cheaper model, the RTX 2070, volition be bachelor for $499, but won't arrive until October.

What makes the RTX cards special is Nvidia'south new Turing architecture, which can return light and shadow effects, or what's called "ray tracing," more realistically than other graphics cards.

Nvidia claims Turing can accelerate real-time ray tracing up to 25 times faster than the older Pascal architecture, then expect better-looking environments in your games. With ray-tracing, an in-game graphics engine can depict low-cal that will accurately bounciness and diffuse across a room in a more realistic fashion.

Delivering this technology has been no easy feat; the ray-tracing capability in the Turing compages was originally expected to have another 10 years to achieve. Huang said. Notwithstanding, the company leapfrogged electric current hardware limitations by using AI-powered software algorithms in Turing to predict and return how lite rays will appear to a homo eye over a game environment.

Developers previously could "fake" ray-tracing effects, but this involved the laborious process of mapping the way light moved across a virtual setting, from scene to scene, Huang said. The company's new Turing architecture, however, tin can automatically simulate the lite rays in real time.

RTX Demo Nvidia

Despite all the talk of ray tracing, the effect can be pretty subtle. Nvidia showed how the new technology volition wait in upcoming games including Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Metro Exodus. The ray-tracing mainly created more shadows around characters and environments using different degrees of darkness, from pitch black to softer shades of gray.

Nvidia RTX

It can likewise create accurate light reflections on drinking glass, metal, and over the eyes of in-game human being characters. Nvidia showed how this might wait in the upcoming shooter Battlefield V. During a battle, explosions and the ensuing fire tin be reflected beyond the entire environment, including the puddles on the ground, nearby store windows, parked cars, and over irises of the human soldiers.

However, Nvidia's ray-tracing tech is designed for newer games, so non all will have it. Other titles slated to support ray tracing include MechWarrior five: Mercenaries and Atomic Eye, amid others, with more to come, the company said.

Nvidia volition sell the new RTX cards through partners such as Asus, EVGA, and Gigabyte. You can as well pre-social club the special "Founders Edition" of each card on Nvidia's site. Even so, the GPUs will price yous an extra $100 to $200 over the suggested starting price.

So far, Nvidia has not announced when it will launch lower-end models of the RTX series.