The GTX brand of Nvidia GPUs have seen us through the past decade of PC gaming, but their days are officially numbered as Nvidia teased the reveal of the RTX 2080 this morning. The cards are expected to use the ray tracing technology from upcoming Quadro cards built on the new Turing architecture.<\/b>
\nAfter many months of teasing and potential leaks, we\u2019re now officially on the home stretch when it comes to Nvidia \u2019s next-gen gaming GPUs. A short teaser trailer posted to the NVIDIA GeForce YouTube channel early this morning sets a date of August 20 for the unveiling of its new gaming-grade graphics cards. All signs point toward the RTX 2080.
Keen-eyed readers will know that August 20 is the same week Gamescom \u2013 Europe\u2019s answer to E3 \u2013 kicks off in Cologne, Germany. Confirmed yet again through the aforementioned video, Nvidia plans to showcase the new tech at its own event in the city.
The first card to be revealed looks set to be the RTX 2080, dropping the GTX branding used on Nvidia\u2019s gaming-grade graphics cards since the days of the 200-series cards based on the Tesla architecture from back in 2008. Cards ending with 80 are typically high-end gaming GPUs with more affordable options arriving as the months go on.
As for the tech powering these new cards, we\u2019ve heard rumblings about the newest line of Nvidia GPUs for some time now. But with the company formally announcing the long-rumored \u2018Turing\u2019 name for its new GPU architecture at SIGGRAPH 2018 yesterday, we\u2019re a step closer to understanding what its next line of gaming-grade GPUs will bring to the average consumer\u2019s desktop rig in the near future.
And what they\u2019re expected to bring stems from the RTX namesake. The focus of yesterday\u2019s Nvidia event was to introduce \u2018ray tracing\u2019 to its GPU line-up. A key focus of these next-gen GPUs, ray tracing is a technique designed to increase the realism of lighting effects. With the tech set to be supported by Nvidia\u2019s latest GPUs, game developers will be able to implement better lighting throughout their titles.
Alongside other technologies like Compute and AI improvements, the new Turing architecture cards signify the \u201cgreatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006,\u201d. Nvidia used the event to showcase the Quadro RTX cards; the first GPUs built on the new Turing architecture.
The Quadro name typically applies to cards designed for professional and industrial workloads and carry a hefty price tag. And these products are no different with the low-end Quadro RTX 5000 costing $2,300 and the top-end $10,000 Quadro RTX 8000. As usual, Nvidia will even offer a Quadro RTX Server with eight Turing GPUs wedged inside.<\/p>\n

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