After weeks of teasing, Nvidia’s Turing GPUs are finally here. At Gamescom 2018 in Germany, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced three new GPUs: RTX 20180 Ti, RTX 2018, and RTX 2070 as successors to GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1080, and GTX 1070.
The biggest addition to the GPU is Ray Tracing, which Nvidia claims it took them 10 years to make. The cards also come with a 6x performance boost over the Pascal series, and packs AI specific Chips. Ray-Tracing enables hyper-realistic real-time lighting and reflections in games that support it. Some games which will include Ray Tracing are Battlefield V, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and MechWarrior 5.
Other changes include GDDR6 memory with over 600 GB/s bandwidth and a USB-C port to increase the display bandwidth for VR headsets. Also, Nvidia is finally ditching SLI for NVLink, which is faster and supports up to 8-GPU configurations.
RTX Series Specs:
| RTX 2080 Ti | RTX 2080 | RTX 2070 | |
| Boost Clock | 1635 MHz (OC) | 1800 MHz (OC) | 1710 MHz (OC) |
| Memory | 11GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Speed | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps |
| Ray Tracing | 10 GigaRays/sec | 8 GigaRays/sec | 6 GigaRays/sec |
| Performance | 78T RTX-OPS | 60T RTX-OPS | 45T RTX-OPS |
The Founder’s edition of RTX GPUs are already available for pre-order in India and will ship on late September. Here’s the official pricing of RTX cards in India:
RTX 2080 Ti: Rs. 1,02,500
RTX 2080: Rs. 68,500
RTX 2070: Rs. 51,200
RTX NVLink Bridge: Rs. 6,850
The Founder’s edition version of RTX series can be pre-ordered from Nvidia India right now.
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