TECH NEWS – The Nvidia GTX 1060 was the most successful GPU for the company. Its successor, the RTX 2060 is 60% faster, and it also utilises the real-time ray-tracing technology (which is why the GPU series is called RTX).

Nvidia revealed the RTX 2060 at CES, which will also be available for laptops. It will launch shortly (next week in the US), and it will also give you a free game – you can either pick up Battlefield V or Anthem, and the price is also competitive: 349 dollars.

The GPU ran easily on 60 frames per second with the Battlefield V tech demo:

Anthem also received an RTX trailer:

Nvidia considers the RTX GPUs as next-gen, built on the Turing architecture. Aside from better reflections („soft” shadows, reflecting realistic physics), the ray-tracing will play a pivotal role in light simulation as well. „If we capture the geometry, shadows just appear. Just like in the real world. It just works. No faking is necessary. That’s the beauty of ray tracing. However, the computational requirement is just daunting,” Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, said. He thinks that the artificial intelligence and the ray-tracing will be the two technologies that will redefine the next generation of computer graphics.

There’s also the DLSS – the deep learning supersampling enables higher resolution graphics using the same real-time ray tracing GPU and the same scene via deep learning technology.

Nvidia is serious – they announced that 40 laptops will hit the stores with their RTX technology.

Source: VentureBeat, VentureBeat