Wednesday, August 22, 2018

GeForce RTX Propels PC Gaming’s Golden Age with Real-Time Ray Tracing

They say real-time ray tracing is the future of graphics — and always will be. No longer. NVIDIA today unveiled the biggest breakthrough in PC gaming in over a decade: the GeForce RTX series, based on the Turing GPU architecture, which realizes the dream of real-time ray tracing. It’s a watershed moment, the start of a golden age of gaming. And the technology — regarded as the “holy grail” of computer graphics — has come 10 years earlier than most predicted. “Games will never be the same,” said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, during his Gamescom presentation, where he unveiled GeForce RTX.