The World’s First Ray Tracing Gaming Graphics Card
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is a beast of a graphics card that can be able to push 60 fps 4K gaming without any problem. Not only that, it is significantly more powerful than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 . This graphics cards pushes the boundaries of computer graphics forward with Real-Time Ray Tracing Technology and AI-driven Turing Tensor Cores.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is powered by the Turing GPU architecture in which it gives you up to 6x the performance of previous generation graphics cards and brings the power of real-time ray tracing and AI to games.
The factory overclocked GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card features a next-gen 13-phase power supply for maximum overclocking and dual-axial 13-blade fans coupled with a new vapor chamber for ultra-cool and quiet performance. However, it draws 250W from power supply in that case you will need more power in order to get more performance and maintenance in cooling. As per my advice, you will only buy this monstrous thing if you will need immense computation to your work.
The GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti also blaze a path for several connection technologies. Such as, VirtualLink in which it is a new USB-C alternate mode standard that contains all the video, audio, and data connections necessary to power a virtual reality headset. It’s backed by a consortium of PC heavy-hitters, including Oculus, Valve, AMD, Microsoft, and of course, Nvidia.
Specification and Features
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti delivers some impressive specs with 11GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 4,352 CUDA cores, and a boost clock of 1,635 MHz through first ever self-implemented 90 MHz factory overclock.
This GPU also features two additional types of cores its predecessors never had in the form of RT and Tensor cores. The RTX 2080 Ti’s has 544 Tensor Cores which aided by the AI for work efficiency and 68 RT Cores for power ray tracing, which allows this graphics card to render much more complex, real-time lighting scenarios and natural shadows.
However, the starting price of this monstrous being is $1000 which is expensive and only rich individual can buy and afford that thing.
Real-Time Ray Tracing Technology
The gaming industry’s finally pushing towards the graphics Holy Grail, real-time ray tracing. These Turing GPUs include dedicated RT cores, augmented by AI-boosting tensor cores that let can help identify potential errors or missing information during the ray tracing process. That lets the GeForce RTX 2080 pair process ray tracing far, far faster than their predecessors could.
Ray tracing mimics how lighting works in the real world. Objects are illuminated by 3D light sources, with rays bouncing around before reaching your eyes (or the camera, in games). Light might be reflected by other objects, or look different after passing through water, or be blocked by another object completely and create a shadow. The objects the rays bounce off even affect the final color you see, just like in real life. Ray tracing can deliver very high-quality images.
AI-Driven Turing Tensor Cores
544 Tensor Cores bring artificial intelligence (AI) to consumer graphics cards, and Nvidia hopes to use these to great effect for more efficient anti-aliasing. According to Nvidia, Turing is eight times faster at processing anti-aliasing than Pascal via machine learning.
Tensor Cores also drive a new technology called Deep Learning Super Sampling, which can increase resolution while applying anti-aliasing at the same time.
Advantages
Cutting-Edge Technology in Computer Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is truly an innovative masterpiece in computer graphics. It implements new technology such as Real-Time Ray Tracing, Turing GPU architecture and bring AI to games which assist the hardware to work efficiently. It improves the graphics exponentially and open a new world for the development of computer graphics. It will give you latest technology which improves your work efficiency or better gameplay in games.
High Connectivity
This GPU has implemented new ways to efficiently connect graphics card to display in order to fully-used its potential as well as improve accessibility on other platforms or type of connection.
Disadvantages
Cost
Since it is the latest and cutting edge of computer graphics, it has to be costly as well as overpriced due to its freshness in the market which most of the commoner can’t handle the price. Only wealthy individual or someone who really need an extensive computation in graphics would buy such amount only for the GPU. For me, it is still depends if you want to follow the trend by sacrificing for wealth for early-access cutting-edge technology or wait until there is another monster going to come in order to lower the price of the previous models.
Lack of Ray-Tracing Supported Games
Lack in implementation such as supported games running with a Ray-Tracing Technology is such a downer for the user who wants to use efficiently the newly bought latest GPU. Since the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is new to the market, users will need to wait the implementation and support on software such as games and other software that can might use a such technology for their efficiency in their processes in software.
References:
- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080-ti/
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17877968/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-review-benchmarks-performance-features
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/nvidia-rtx-2080-and-2080-ti-review-a-tale-of-two-very-expensive-graphics-cards/
- https://www.techradar.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-review
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/davealtavilla/2018/09/20/digesting-nvidias-geforce-rtx-2080-and-rtx-2080-ti-performance-features-and-price/#64262fd435e3
- https://www.pcworld.com/article/3298958/components-graphics/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-2070-raytracing-specs-features-price.html
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