Nvidia RTX 2070, 2080, 2080 Ti officially announced: Price starts at $499

At the Gamescom 2018, Nvidia has launched its next-generation graphics cards in Germany with the new architecture. As of now, the company has launched three new graphics card under Nvidia RTX 2000 series at different price points. The Nvidia RTX 2070, 2080, and the 2080 Ti GPUs will replace the last generation Nvidia GTX 1070, 1080, and 1080 Ti graphics cards, respectively.

Price and availability (for Founders edition)

• Nvidia RTX 2070 $499 (Rs 35,000) Yet to be announced
• Nvidia RTX 2080 $699 (Rs 49,000) September 20th
• Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti $999 (Rs 70,000) September 20th

These prices are less than the leaked prices of these graphics cards. According to a leak, the RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti were expected to cost $599, $799, and $1199, respectively. However, the Founders Edition cards do cost $1199, $799, and $599 which comes with a slightly higher boost frequency.

Features

The RTX 2070, 2080, and the 2080 Ti are the first set of consumer-level graphics cards based on Turning architecture. All three cards now support real-time ray tracing to offer improved rendering and lighting technique over the last generation graphics cards from Nvidia.

Ray Tracing technology was initially used in the film industry to create visual effects, which requires high-computational power is now being offered in consumer level graphics cards. These new series of graphics cards from Nvidia also comes with programmable shaders and artificial intelligence, which will improve the overall graphical computing performance of these graphics cards.

As of now, there is no information on the launch of these graphics cards in India. However, as these graphics cards will be available from September in (US) the company is likely to launch these new cards in India at the same time. However, in terms of pricing these graphics cards will cost more in India compared to the US pricing.

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