The New Era of RTX Graphics: "They Say It's Important, So Get One If You Can"
- Technology , Graphics , Gaming
- September 24, 2018
Following is a little article I wrote up back in 2018 for my college magazine. I was 16/17 and stupid, today kids are busy raising millions for startup but I was just figuring out coding, ego-fighting with friends and trying to get a girl out of pure FOMO and status back in college.
So yeah this blog has a lot of grammar mistakes, but I intend to keep it as is because it would be fun to read this later and hey in todays world where everything is heavily moderated using AI tools, its good to have some raw unedited content too. hehe.
An Epic costly Graphics card:
“Do you really need to buy one” well it depends if you got gaming in your blood OR going towards Machine Learning or Deep Learning. A graphics card is really important if you are a sort of gamer. Cause games got a lot of post screen and real-time rendering frames per second. Creating such a sophisticated environment using the integrated Graphics is really demanding task, it’s just too much of stress for the CPU to even create an average graphics on the screen without dropping those IMP frame rates. As for the developers a GPU is every important. As its number of cores are used to do complicated mathematical stuff. Implementing large Neural Networks and working on large data sets running through them needs a lot of memory that are really fast.
The GPU War: Nvidia vs AMD
Didn’t you get confused while looking over the variety of GPUs offered by both the GPU worlds? Sometimes it felt like buying an AMD Graphics over the overpriced Nvidia was always a better option. Well NO it’s not like that AMD always had their graphics card for the gamers and Nvidia tried to balance both gaming and Deep learning requirements in the same GPU. So gamers can rejoice with a new latest AMD Radeion VII GPU with nearby the same performance given by new latest Nvidia 2080 ti GPU having doubled the price. But it’s a whole different story for the developers as Nvidia GPU’s are supported by many developer tools and you can also find a large community using it…
Nvidia: Going from famous GTX to new RTX
There was a decade of really famous Nvidia Geforce GTX graphics. Here in the GTX the GT stands for Giga-Texel and maybe the X stands for Extreme or something similar. Some of the famous GPUs still brought by common man are the GTX 710 2gb and GTX 1050 ti 4gb. A Whole new variety was started last year 2018 The Epic RTX - Real Time Ray Tracing.
Nvidia RTX Graphics
The RTX graphics are made on the new Nvidia Turing Architecture. The RTX GPUs also bring some new technologies with it. They are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and Ray Tracing.
Ray Tracing - is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behaviour of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games like never before.
DLSS - Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is new RTX technology that uses the power of deep learning and AI to train the GPU to render crisp images, while running up to 2x faster than previous generation GPUs using conventional anti-aliasing techniques.
Advantages of using RTX technology
Real-Time Ray Tracing Factory Over clocked Founders Edition Incredible performance with Ray Tracing Artificial Intelligence Aided Games Ray Tracing makes High Core Counts Relevant
Gaming on RTX GPUs
Now just imagine finally gaming on a 4K display at 144hz, having really high FPS and the graphics just looking as if you were watching a real movie or you were just in the game. With those awesome Ray-Tracing Tech and AI featured games. It’s just damn AWESOME.
Development on latest RTX GPUs
Because of having a totally new improved architecture these RTX GPUs got extra number of CUDA Cores and Tensor Cores. So, implementing larger Neural Networks would be easier than doing it on older GTX graphics. This RTX tech is a bit like futuristic, many more games and API are yet to come.
Games nearly ready for RTX Graphics
As of Aug 18, these are the games going to support Ray Tracing Tech Assetto Corsa Competizione Atomic Heart Battlefield V Control Enlisted Justice JX3 MechWarrior 5 Metro Exodus ProjectDH Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Games going to support DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) Ark: Survival Evolved Atomic Heart Dauntless Final Fantasy XV Fractured Lands Hitman 2 Islands of Nyne Justice X3 Mechwarrior 5 PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Remnant: From the Ashes Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass Shadow of the Tomb Raider The Forge Arena We Happy Few
Now take a thought on their price tag
As of writing this article this was the price tag given to these awesome RTX Graphics Nvidia 2080 ti Founders Edition - $1199 Nvidia 2080 Founders Edition - $799 Nvidia 2070 Founders Edition - $599 Nvidia 2060 Founders Edition - $347
There have been some rumours about Nvidia releasing about 6 variants of budget friendly RTX 2060.
Most of RTX variants known. (also includes rumoured ones)
- GeForce 2060 3GB GDDR5
- GeForce 2060 3GB
- GeForce 2060 4GB GDDR5
- GeForce 2060 4GB
- GeForce 2060 6GB GDDR5
- GeForce 2060 6GB Founder Edition
- GeForce 2070 8GB Founders Edition
- GeForce 2080 8GB
- GeForce 2080 8GB Founders Edition
- GeForce 2080 Ti 11GB
- GeForce 2080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition
- Titan RTX 24GB
- Quadro RTX 4000 8GB
- Quadro RTX 5000 16GB
- Quadro RTX 6000 24GB
- Quadro RTX 8000 48GB
[Alphons Jaimon - 2018]