When it comes to gaming, new graphics means a new way to see the world.
The NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture powers both the GeForce RTX 20-Series and GTX 16-Series cards. As the world’s most advanced architecture, Turing brings exceptional performance and efficiency as well as next-generation shading technology to the latest games.
Additionally, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX platform offers real-time ray tracing and AI for an entirely new gaming experience. RTX offers stunningly accurate lighting like shadows, reflections, refractions and global illumination. With more realistic scenes, gaming is more intense and exhilarating than ever before.
Popular titles such as Control and Metro Exodus illustrate the eye-opening difference in visual impact offered by the NVIDIA RTX series.
And many more new RTX titles are joining the scene — Minecraft, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Watch Dogs: Legion, Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Cyberpunk 2077 to name just a few.
The best way to comprehend the difference between RTX and GTX is to see it.
Above is a scene from Battlefield V that allows you to interact with “RTX on” or “RTX off” to experience the differences in visuals. Click the image and then move the slider here between “RTX on” and “RTX off” to see the differences in lighting.
NVIDIA RTX graphics cards are the first to include RT Cores. This dedicated ray-tracing hardware can cast upwards of 10 gigarays per second, allowing real-time, movie-like lighting in games. Real-time ray tracing is only possible because RTX graphics cards deliver up to 6x faster ray-tracing performance.
Above is a scene from Metro Exodus that shows off the immersive details gained from real-time ray tracing. Click the image and then move the slider here between “RTX on” and “RTX off” to see the differences in lighting.
RTX graphics cards are also the first to offer Tensor Cores capable of delivering over 100 teraflops of AI processing to accelerate gaming performance with NVIDIA DLSS.
For those looking for a gaming GPU that will handle the next generation of immersive game titles, RTX is a great way to go.
While only RTX cards have RT and Tensor Cores, the GTX 16-Series uses the shared Turing architecture to offer huge leaps in performance. Games like Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus are already making use of Turing’s concurrent floating point and integer operation, and advanced shading, including variable rate shading to deliver higher frame rates with lower power consumption.
GTX cards excel at both immersive and competitive gaming, providing great experiences in popular titles like Fortnite, Overwatch and Counterstrike: Global Offensive. Gamers can share their gaming experience with a streaming audience with lower overhead and higher quality with Turing’s new NVENC*. And for retro gaming, Turing brings hardware integer scaling for crisp pixel art.
Gamers looking for a GPU for traditional games can grab a GTX card for amazing performance and value.
Learn more about NVIDIA RTX and NVIDIA GTX.
The main difference between the GTX and RTX series is the inclusion of ray tracing and DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) in the latter. These features allow the RTX series to offer more realistic and immersive new graphics capabilities, but they also come with a price premium compared to the GTX card series.
Another key difference between the two series is their performance. In general, the RTX card series offers better performance than the GTX series, especially in games that support ray tracing and DLSS. However, the difference in performance may vary depending on the specific models and applications being compared.
Ray tracing is a rendering technique that uses advanced algorithms to create more realistic lighting effects, shadows, and reflections in 3D graphics. DLSS is a technology that uses artificial intelligence to improve the performance of games and other applications by rendering images at lower resolutions and upscaling them to the desired resolution. This is achieved by simulating the way light rays bounce off objects and surfaces in a virtual scene.
Ray tracing allows for more accurate and realistic graphics, but it also requires significant computational power to perform. This is why ray tracing is only supported on higher-end graphics cards like those in the RTX series.
Let's take a closer look at some popular models in NVIDIA’s GTX series:
This is a budget-friendly graphics card that offers good performance for its price. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p resolution and lower settings.
This is a mid-range graphics card that offers better performance than the GTX 1650. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p and 1440p resolution with higher settings.
This is a high-end graphics card that offers excellent performance for its price. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolution with high to ultra settings.
This is a premium graphics card that offers excellent performance for gaming and professional applications. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolution with high to ultra settings.
This is a top-of-the-line graphics card that offers the best performance in the GTX series. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolution with ultra settings.
This is a flagship graphics card that offers the ultimate performance in the GTX series. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolution with the highest possible settings.
Now let's take a closer look at some popular models in the RTX series:
This is a mid-range graphics card that offers good performance and support for ray tracing and DLSS. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolution with high to ultra settings.
This is a high-end graphics card that offers excellent performance and support for ray tracing and DLSS. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolution with ultra settings.
This is a premium graphics card that offers excellent performance and support for ray tracing and DLSS. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolution with the highest possible settings.
This is a flagship graphics card that offers the ultimate performance and support for ray-tracing and DLSS, featuring an impressive 544 ray-tracing tensor cores. It is suitable for playing games at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K resolution.