Nvidia posted a YouTube video teasing that gamers may have something exciting to look forward to at Gamescom 2018. There are hints that Nvidia will launch its flagship GeForce RTX 2080 graphics chip at the event, and the teaser follows news of Nvidia’s launch of the Quadro RTX 8000 GPU.<\/b>
\nGamers disappointed that Nvidia didn\u2019t unveil a consumer GPU when it unveiled its enterprise-centric Turing architecture at Siggraph 2018 will soon be in for a treat. Nvidia has just posted a teaser YouTube video hinting that it could unveil its next consumer-based GeForce RTX series soon. Given that Gamescom is just around the corner, Nvidia could unveil its next-generation RTX 2080 graphics chip at that venue.
The YouTube video contains hints that Nvidia may be announcing its GeForce RTX 2080 branding at the show. The video contains Discord handles such as RoyTeX (RTX), Not_11, Mac-20, and Eight Tee, which as observant users on Reddit noted would spell out RTX 2080. There has been speculation in the past that Nvidia will complement its GTX series with an RTX line, and that the two GPU families could exist together. \u201cThis also further lends credence to our story that the company is pursuing the RTX series as complementary to the GTX series and will add on top of the Pascal lineup and not replace them for now,\u201d wccftech speculated.
\u201cThere are even GPS coordinates for Cologne in the Discord messages, and Nvidia unveils the date for its GeForce event by making the \u20182080\u2019 numbers rise up in order at the very end of the teaser,\u201d The Verge reported.
Another hint that the GPU will be announced at Gamescom comes from the location coordinates that Nvidia posted. \u201cIn one of the chats, a grid reference for somewhere in Cologne, Germany is posted, but if you enter these into Google Maps, you\u2019ll see that it\u2019s actually somewhere a little north of the Koelnmesse, Gamescom\u2019s main venue,\u201d Trusted Reviews noted.
While Nvidia was coy about its presence at Gamescom previously, the company noted that there will be \u201cspectacular surprises\u201d and \u201cnew PC games running on the latest GeForce hardware.\u201d
Additionally, the promo also shows the handle \u2018Ray,\u2019 which could be a hint that some of Nvidia\u2019s ray tracing efforts may also be trickling down to consumer cards. Ray tracing was a major component of Nvidia\u2019s Turing architecture announcement at Siggraph. Nvidia said that the new chipset contains an RT Core, and that the Quadro RTX is the world\u2019s first ray tracing GPU. All that power comes at a cost, and the Quadro RTX 8000 flagship will be priced at $10,000 when it ships. Other key features of that chip include support for NVLink \u2014 to connect multiple cards together \u2014 and VirtualLink, which is used to connect virtual reality headsets using a single USB-C cable.
With Gamescom scheduled to start on August 21, we won\u2019t have much longer to wait to hear about Nvidia\u2019s branding efforts for its next-generation GeForce GPU and its capabilities.<\/p>\n

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