Nvidia will unveil the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card in September as part of their GeForce RTX 2000 series of graphics cards.
The RTX 2080 Ti graphics, which is equipped with 11 GB of RAM and 1,515 MHz with 4352 CUDA cores is available for $1,199. This also marks the first time that Nvidia has revealed a Ti product simultaneously with an advanced architecture. The RTX 2080 Ti series is divided into two options, specifically the Founders Edition and the Reference, which costs around $999.
High-Performance Cards
The RTX 2080 Ti is also packed with a Turing GPU architecture that runs a memory speed of 14 GB per second. Nvidia promised that the performance of their cards is six times better than of previous generation graphics cards.
"This is a new computing model, so there's a new way to think about performance. This new Turing processor is just a monster, it's incredible," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed.
Aside from the RTX 2080 Ti, the GeForce RTX 2000 series also comes with the RTX 2070 and the RTX 2080 Founders and Reference versions. The RTX 2070, which boasts 2304 Nvidia CUDA Cores, start from $499 to $599, while the RTX 2080 is within the price range of $699 to $799. The said cards will succeed current Nvidia GPUs, namely the GTX 1070, GTX 1080, and the GTX 1080 Ti.
It will also be the company's first consumer-level graphics cards that are hinged on the Turing architecture. Major companies such as MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, Zotac, PNY, and EVGA will have the RTX 2080 and the RTX 2080 Ti cards available for preorders today and ship on Sept. 20. Nvidia added that the RTX 2070 will be available in October.
All three cards are also energized with a built-in support, which can be spent on a real-time ray tracing. Earlier this year, Nvidia introduced a real-time ray tracing advancement that assimilates with artificial intelligence and programmable shaders. The Verge considered real-time tracing as the crowning glory of video games, citing that it makes games look a lot more like movies.
Perfect For Most Games
The real-time tracing component of Nvidia has worked wonders with various games such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Metro Exodus, and Battlefield V. The demonstration of the Battlefield V was particularly remarkable, as reflections from explosions were precisely rendered onto adjacent objects such as tanks and cars.
On the other hand, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider did not only accumulate performance gains but also displayed authentic lightings and shadows in nighttime plots. Not to be outdone was the Metro Exodus demonstration, which showed a sunlight passing through a window from a room in real-time.
