This week at the new York Hilton Midtown hosted a scientific-technical conference Citi Global Technology Conference in 2018. Among other speakers at the event were Ms. Colette Kress (Colette Kress), is the Executive Vice President and chief financial officer of Nvidia.
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
During a conversation with a journalist Atif Malik (Atif Malik) Ms. Kress did not hesitate to give advances recently presented Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards. She stated that “a couple of weeks ago, we announced an absolute graphics card for the ultimate gaming” (original phrase: overall overall cards for gaming).
Cards will be released soon. We’ll start with ray-traced cards (We’ll start with the ray-tracing cards). We have a set of 2080 Ti, 2080 and 2070 that are already entering the market. This is a giant leap in the industry, as people have not expected anything like this for another ten or fifteen years. The game will change a lot. There will come a time when you can not tell what is in front of you: a movie or a game.
Nvidia RTX
Also Colette Kress reported that accelerators based on the architecture of Turing’s provide twice the performance gain in the standard task compared to similar cards on the architecture of Pascal and sixfold increase in the use of ray tracing.
Remark about “maps with ray tracing” may indicate a lack of blocks RT in the youngest solutions GeForce the 20, series. Tellingly, such rumors have already been mentioned by one representative of the AIB-partner Nvidia. Whatever it was, the situation looks ambiguous.
On the one hand, we have seen low frame rate in Shadow of the Tomb Raider when using the accelerator GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and statements of the head of the DICE on the facilitation of special effects Ray Tracing in Battlefield V to ensure stable gameplay. In this case, it is simply pointless to implement the RTX module in GeForce 2060 graphics cards and below, because it will be there by and large”for show”.
RTX 2080 vs GTX 1080
On the other hand, this solution can spoil the reputation of the promoted “green” technology, and Nvidia as a whole. According to statistics, the senior representatives of the lines with the index XX70 and above are popular with a low proportion of users, and given the increased recommended price of GeForce RTX graphics cards, they will become the lot of computer enthusiasts with a tight wallet. In this case, will developers want to spend precious resources on the introduction of ray tracing technology in their projects, if in the foreseeable future it will not be in demand by the mass market?