Monday, August 20th 2018
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX: 10 Years in the Making
NVIDIA today unveiled the GeForce RTX series, the first gaming GPUs based on the new NVIDIA Turing architecture and the NVIDIA RTX platform, which fuses next-generation shaders with real-time ray tracing and all-new AI capabilities.
This new hybrid graphics capability represents the biggest generational leap ever in gaming GPUs. Turing -- which delivers 6x more performance than its predecessor, Pascal -- redefines the PC as the ultimate gaming platform, with new features and technologies that deliver 4K HDR gaming at 60 frames per second on even the most advanced titles.
"Turing opens up a new golden age of gaming, with realism only possible with ray tracing, which most people thought was still a decade away," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, speaking before Gamescom, the world's largest gaming expo. "The breakthrough is a hybrid rendering model that boosts today's computer graphics with the addition of lightning-fast ray-tracing acceleration and AI. RTX is going to define a new look for computer graphics. Once you see an RTX game, you can't go back."
GeForce RTX - New Family of Gaming GPUs
The new GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 2080 and 2070 GPUs are packed with features never before seen in a gaming GPU, including:
NVIDIA is releasing special Founders Edition versions of the new GeForce RTX GPUs. Designed and built to the company's high standards, the GPUs' key features include:
This new hybrid graphics capability represents the biggest generational leap ever in gaming GPUs. Turing -- which delivers 6x more performance than its predecessor, Pascal -- redefines the PC as the ultimate gaming platform, with new features and technologies that deliver 4K HDR gaming at 60 frames per second on even the most advanced titles.
GeForce RTX - New Family of Gaming GPUs
The new GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 2080 and 2070 GPUs are packed with features never before seen in a gaming GPU, including:
- New RT Cores to enable real-time ray tracing of objects and environments with physically accurate shadows, reflections, refractions and global illumination.
- Turing Tensor Cores to perform lightning-fast deep neural network processing.
- New NGX neural graphics framework integrates AI into the overall graphics pipeline, enabling AI algorithms to perform amazing image enhancement and generation.
- New Turing shader architecture with Variable Rate Shading allows shaders to focus processing power on areas of rich detail, boosting overall performance.
- New memory system featuring ultra-fast GDDR6 with over 600GB/s of memory bandwidth for high-speed, high-resolution gaming.
- NVIDIA NVLink , a high-speed interconnect that provides higher bandwidth (up to 100 GB/s) and improved scalability for multi-GPU configurations (SLI).
- Hardware support for USB Type-C and VirtualLink (1), a new open industry standard being developed to meet the power, display and bandwidth demands of next-generation VR headsets through a single USB-C connector.
- New and enhanced technologies to improve performance of VR applications, including Variable Rate Shading, Multi-View Rendering and VRWorks Audio.
NVIDIA is releasing special Founders Edition versions of the new GeForce RTX GPUs. Designed and built to the company's high standards, the GPUs' key features include:
- Factory-overclocked design out of the box, with a next-gen 13-phase iMON DrMOS power supply and sub-millisecond power management for maximum overclocking.
- Dual 13-blade axial fans produce 3x higher airflow and ultra-quiet acoustics.
- Forged and machine-finished diecast aluminum cover with diamond-cut edge detailing provides a rigid, lightweight frame for an open design with beautifully smooth, continuous curves.
- First full-card vapor chamber, which is 2x larger to maximize heat spreading and heat transfer to the finstack.
- Enhanced DisplayPort 1.4a with DSC allows a single connector to drive an 8K monitor at 60Hz.
48 Comments on NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX: 10 Years in the Making
where's the reviews?
They're not making a Turing-competitor any time soon.
Ray Tracing is nice and all but majority of the games are still rasterized
This is only killing the PC gamers market, it's like we're back in 2007 when AMD was playing the pricing game with weaker video cards to Nvidia. PC gaming was considered dead or dying at the time and Nvidia was gouging their customers then too.
This time however I don't expect AMD to punch back like it did with the HD5870...
After reading the Techradar's hands-on review for the 2080 Ti it hints we'll see almost 2x the gaming performance of the 1080 Ti for about 1.5x the cost.
www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti
I base this on that they said they were getting over 100+ FPS in 4k in a variety of games. I hope these were games in which I currently get ~40-60 FPS at max settings with a 1080 Ti.
They also said they got around 60 fps at 4k in Shadow of the Tomb Raider a future title with Ray Tracing enabled.Edit: Wrong.So we could look at this instead as a 33% increase per dollar (2/1.5=1.33).
This is not so crazy if the increase is similar across the range of cards. Then the 2080 would be true successor to the 1080 Ti as they are priced similarly but with possibly ~33% more fps and new ray tracing capabilities. The card I'm personally considering if I can get a good price for my 1080 Ti now but its a gamble.
2080 Ti would then actually just be a new class of even higher performance with a price to match.
2070 would be the new improved 1080 class.
2060 would be the new improved 1070 class.
Etc...
Don't know for sure until the proper reviews come in.
The Tomb Raider demo was in 1080p
Curious, where's that second quote from?
I need RTX in my life
1080p 30 fps is more than enough
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