Hands-on with the Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti and real-time ray traced gaming

Nvidia has finally announced its new RTX 20-series graphics cards, with the RTX 2080 Ti taking pride of place at the head of the new family. The new Turing GPUs are all about the potential of adding real-time ray tracing into our PC games, but how well can the new gaming GPUs handle the demands of ray tracing? We've done some early testing... The new GPU architecture has been designed to support Nvidia’s RTX suite of hardware and software algorithms to help generate ray tracing on the fly, hence the switch from the GTX nomenclature to the RTX prefix. This is also build on the work the company has done with Microsoft to get its DirectX Ray tracing (DXR) into games too. The RTX 2080 Ti is due for release on September 20 this year, costing the princely sum of $999. This is an ultra-enthusiast graphics card and the fastest GeForce GPU you can jam into your home PC. It’s also your best bet for getting the most out of the 21 new and updated titles set to support Nvidia’s RTX technology over the coming months. So, how well does it handle the rigours of real-time ray tracing?