It’s been a very long time coming, however Nvidia have lastly lifted the lid on their subsequent technology of Turing GeForce graphics playing cards – and man alive are they mindbogglingly spectacular. Announced this night at their GeForce Gaming Celebration occasion in Cologne forward of this yr’s Gamescom, the successors to Nvidia’s GTX 10-series will likely be led by the mighty GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080, whose real-time ray-tracing tech and different fancy gubbins yoinked from Nvidia’s skilled Quadro RTX playing cards make them by far the best graphics cards I’ve ever clapped eyes on.
Below, you’ll discover every part Nvidia needed to say about their new Turing playing cards at tonight’s unveiling, together with the RTX 20-series’ worth, specs and tantalizing launch date, however the one factor you really want to know is that this: Turing is way, far more than simply one other incremental replace. The subsequent technology of graphics playing cards is properly and really right here.
Nvidia Turing RTX 2080 specs and efficiency
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is clearly a person excited by reflections inside reflections and triangle refractions inside one million different triangle refractions. He spent numerous time going over the sheer would possibly of what Nvidia’s new Turing chip is able to, which I lined in my authentic Quadro RTX article linked above. Put merely, although, Turing is an absolute monster.
Ray tracing, or fancy gentle tech to you and me, is an enormous a part of what makes Turing so particular. I’m not going to faux I essentially perceive what these metrics truly imply, however you realize that 10 Giga Rays per second determine I discussed in that Quadro article? That’s what Turing’s able to. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080Ti, the world’s bestest finest client graphics card proper now? Just 1.21 Giga Rays per second. That’s round 8x extra highly effective – or, to place it in Huang’s personal phrases: “Things look like things look like things.”
Don’t get me unsuitable. Nvidia’s Sol demo they confirmed off, each tonight and at Siggraph, seems to be completely unbelievable. It was like a CGI cutscene, solely rendered in actual time on a single Turing GPU. Have a gander beneath:
But we all know all this already from Nvidia’s Quadro occasion. Surely all this phenomenal cosmic energy couldn’t probably be squeezed down into an everyday graphics card regular folks should buy, proper?
HOLD ONTO YOUR SOCKS FOLKS.
Firstly, Nvidia confirmed off a ray tracing demo from sunny apocalypse journey Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which look fairly rattling spectacular (extra like Ray Tracing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, amirite?). Shadows had been mind-blowingly real looking, from tiny sparklers being chucked about by errant kids to flashing neon indicators and disco lights, and so they had been all interacting with one another in actual time.
We additionally noticed a shiny new trailer, which I’m positive you’ll agree seems to be a heck of so much prettier than Matthew’s Xbox One footage he went to see a couple of weeks ago.
Second, we noticed one other ray tracing demo for the altogether gloomier apocalyptic prepare simulator Metro Exodus. With extra correct lighting, scenes may be scarier and extra atmospheric, in response to Nvidia, as they’re not having to gentle buildings artificially so they appear unnatural. And from the seems to be of this trailer, there’s a heck of lot of scary stuff going to be ready there.
Thirdly! Shooty shooter Battlefield V. Now you’ll have the ability to see the souls and tank explosions bursting out within the eyes of your enemies. And not simply their eyes, both. Cars, wet surfaces, home windows, tram carriages – each reflective floor will seize the sunshine simply as you’d anticipate it to in actual life. I’m not one for shooty shooters, however good gravy. This is correct mad spectacular. Trailer coming shortly.
All that, on an RTX 2080Ti.
That’s 11GB of GDDR6 RAM, clocked at 14Gbps, able to these 10 Giga Rays/second and 78 trillion RTX operations per second.
And that’s not all. Nvidia additionally introduced the GTX 2080 (8GB of GDDR6 RAM, 8 Giga Rays/second) and the GTX 2070 (additionally 8GB of DDR6 RAM and eight Giga Rays/second, however solely 45 trillion RTX operations versus the GTX 2080’s 60 trillion).
Nvidia Turing RTX 2080 launch date
Both the Founder’s Edition of every card and all the opposite third social gathering fashions will likely be launched on the identical day: September 20th. That’s only a month from now – and pre-orders are open proper now.
At the second, you’ll be able to solely pre-order the Founder’s Edition of every card from Nvidia’s web site (the RTX 2070 is presently solely displaying a ‘Notify Me’ button in the meanwhile), however I’ll be updating this text with extra info as and when it will get confirmed.
Nvidia Turing RTX 2080 worth
Even higher, these playing cards begin from simply $499 – that’s $499 for the RTX 2070, $699 for the RTX 2080 and $999 for the RTX 2080Ti.
If you’re on the lookout for a Founder’s Edition card, nevertheless, be ready to shell out much more, as Nvidia’s web site presently has the RTX 2080Ti listed for $1199, the RTX 2080 for $799, and the RTX 2070 round $599. UK pricing is presently unknown (I’ll add it in as soon as I’ve acquired it, so keep tuned), however for sure, they’re in all probability going to be a straight swap from $ to £ (or on the very least in the identical ballpark).
More information as I get it.
