The biggest news to come out of Gamescom so far was NVIDIA’s reveal of its new line-up of consumer-grade GeForce graphics cards. Boasting enhanced performance for videogame use thanks to the new ‘RTX’ technology will allows for real-time ray tracing.
There is a question still for consumers, however. How do you know if it’s time to bite the bullet and order one of these new cards for your PC virtual reality (VR) rig?
Help is at hand, since VRFocus have got some useful comparison charts for you to take a look at so you can compare the performance of the existing range of VR-ready cards from NVIDIA and decide if that upgrade is worth it.
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RTX 2080 Ti |
RTX 2080 |
GTX 1080 |
GTX 1070 |
GTX 1060 |
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Architecture |
Turing |
Turing |
Pascal |
Pascal |
Pascal |
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Transistors |
18.6 Billion * |
18.6 Billion * |
7.2 Billion |
7.2 Billion |
4.4 Billion |
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Calculating Power |
14 TFLOPs * |
14 TFLOPs * |
9 TFLOPs |
6.5 TFLOPs |
4.4 TFLOPs |
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Boost Clock |
1800(OC) MHz |
1635(OC) MHz |
1,733MHz |
1,683MHz |
1,708MHz |
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Base Clock |
1515 MHz |
1350 MHZ |
1,607MHz |
1,506MHz |
1,506MHz |
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Bus |
256-bit |
352-bit |
256-bit |
256-bit |
192-bit |
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CUDA Cores |
2944 |
4352 |
2,560 |
1,920 |
1,280 |
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Memory |
8 GB GDDR6 |
11GB GDDR6 |
8 GB GDDR5X |
8 GB GDDR5 |
6 GB GDDR5 |
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TDP |
225W |
250W |
180 W |
150 W |
120 W |
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Price (SRP) |
$ 799 (USD) |
$1,199 (USD) |
$599 USD |
$449 USD |
$249 USD |
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Release Date |
20/9/2018 |
20/9/2018 |
Available Now |
Available Now |
Available Now |
*According to best currently available data.
Pre-orders for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series are already available through the NVIDIA website, and a number of partner companies have announced their own versions of the hardware.
For further coverage of NVIDIA and other VR-ready hardware, keep checking back with VRFocus.