Nvidia Announces When its Flagship RTX 2070 Will be Launched

Nvidia is finally unrolling its latest RTX line of GPUs to the consumers and has already launched the top-of-the-line RTX 2080 priced at a whopping $700.

If you think that’s too expensive for you, Nvidia has a solution. The company is set to launch a cheaper 2000 series GPU, the RTX 2070, based on the same build architecture and has already announced a release date on its official Twitter account.

Beautiful any way you look at it.

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be available on October 17th. #GraphicsReinvented

Shop starting at $499 ($599 Founders Edition) → https://t.co/ammFWibyFy pic.twitter.com/IsScoXm5rZ

— NVIDIA GeForce (@NVIDIAGeForce) September 25, 2018

The card will be hitting the shelves soon on the 17th of October, at a price of $499. The Founders Edition version, however, is a bit expensive at $599.

Here’s a spec comparison:

	RTX 2080 Ti	RTX 2080	RTX 2070	GTX 1080
CUDA Cores	4352	2944	2304	2560
Core Clock	1350MHz	1515MHz	1410MHz	1607MHz
Boost Clock	1545MHz FE: 1635MHz	1710MHz FE: 1800MHz	1620MHz FE: 1710MHz	1733MHz
Memory Clock	14Gbps GDDR6	14Gbps GDDR6	14Gbps GDDR6	10Gbps GDDR5X
Memory Bus Width	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
VRAM	11GB	8GB	8GB	8GB
Single Precision Perf.	13.4 TFLOPs	10.1 TFLOPs	7.5 TFLOPs	8.9 TFLOPs
Tensor Perf. (INT4)	430TOPs	322TOPs	238TOPs	N/A
Ray Perf.	10 GRays/s	8 GRays/s	6 GRays/s	N/A
“RTX-OPS”	78T	60T	45T	N/A
TDP	250W FE: 260W	215W FE: 225W	175W FE: 185W	180W
GPU	TU102	TU104	TU106	GP104
Transistor Count	18.6B	13.6B	10.8B	7.2B
Architecture	Turing	Turing	Turing	Pascal
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 12nm “FFN”	TSMC 12nm “FFN”	TSMC 12nm “FFN”	TSMC 16nm
Launch Date	09/27/2018	09/20/2018	10/2018	05/27/2016
Launch Price	MSRP: $999 Founders $1199	MSRP: $699 Founders $799	MSRP: $499 Founders $599	MSRP: $599 Founders $699

Ray Tracing & Other New-Age Features for Cheap

The new RTX series is known for its new-age ray tracing capability, that was showcased by Nvidia at Gamescom last month. It’s a neat feature, that took a lot of processing power in the past, allowing more realistic shadows and reflections in video games.

There are also AI capabilities for optimized gaming, as well as Deep Learning supersampling (or DLSS for short) in Nvidia’s new series which allows you to squeeze a bit more fps out of supported games.

Watch the video below to see ray tracing in action:

Nvidia says that the RTX series should offer six times more performance than the previous GTX series. However, reports claim that it won’t really be much of an upgrade to replace your older GTX 10 series GPU. Also, it’s also better to wait before buying an RTX card, because you won’t be able to utilize its full potential as of yet.

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This is because most of the current generation of games don’t support ray-tracing or DLSS. Even though Nvidia is betting big on ray tracing, calling it “the future of gaming”, it’s still considered a small fancy addition for those who don’t mind the graphics much.

If you don’t need raytracing, you are better off going for a GTX card that’s cheaper and should perform just as well on games available in the market right now.

You can have Nvidia notify you when RTX 2070 launches by visiting this link.