NVIDIA’s CEO most often than not chooses CES to make his biggest announcements, this year he did not let visitors down when the graphics company produced the RTX series of GPU’s set to radically change the way consumer desktop and notebooks will function.
The highlight among the many NVIDIA made was the the GeForce RTX 2060 which at $349 will bring real-time ray tracing in gaming and content creation to millions of PC gamers.
“RTX is here, next gen is on,” said Jensen Huang CEO of NVIDIA speaking to a packed house of press, partners and professionals from around the consumer electronics and automotive industries at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Huang’s unveiling of the RTX 2060 was the highlight of a flurry of announcements, including 40 new notebook models on new Turing-generation GPUs, and new monitors with G-Sync technology.
These powerful GPU’s will reinvent graphics, allowing designers, artists and developers to create photo-realistic experiences that were only possible in scenes painstakingly generated over days, or weeks, on sprawling render farms.
The approach received immediate industry support from Microsoft, the companies that offer the most widely used game engines, and some of the
These advancements are supported by a host of new systems from major PC brands featuring GeForce RTX. Gamers can also dip into a range of new thin-and-light laptops featuring Geforce RTX 2080, RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 GPUs. Huang announced a record number of laptops from all the top brands, many of them thin-and-models featuring NVIDIA’s Max-Q design.
These systems make it possible for gamers to enjoy the latest ray-tracing enhanced games — such as Battlefield V — while playing on battery power.
And content creators will be able to free themselves from bulky workstations, rendering animations and editing high-definition video content on the go.
There are 8 million people who broadcast games, many using OBS, the world standard for coding and streaming. And there are many who use VR. And content creation, too. As a result, Huang announced that RTX will be able to use Autodesk Arnold for interactive rendering and will be able to be used to do 8K RED video editing.
RTX can also be used for high-end VR — with VirtualLink — a single wire that connects the GPU to the head mounted display — and other features with HTC, which the company will announce later at CES.
