Nvidia Turing GPU – the architecture behind the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 graphics cards

It took a while for the next-gen Nvidia Turing GPU architecture to be unveiled but now we have the full details of the chips that are going to set pulses racing and power the new GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards. We had originally thought Nvidia would translate the Volta architecture down into a more consumer-friendly form, but Nvidia has moved on, producing a new set of discrete GPUs for our gaming graphics cards under the Turing name. But that doesn’t mean this is a complete departure from the Volta design, as Nvidia’s Tom Petersen explained at the RTX 20-series unveiling. “A lot of Volta's architecture is in Turing,” he told us. “Volta is Pascal Plus, Pascal was Maxwell Plus, and so we don't throw out the shader and start over, we are always refining. So it's more accurate to say that Turing is Volta Plus... a bunch of stuff.” And there is a whole lot of new stuff going into the Turing GPUs, and not just the headline-grabbing real-time ray tracing tech that has been plastered all over the intermawebs since it was first demonstrated.

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