Nvidia announces the Turing architecture and its first ray tracing GPUs

Nvidia announces the Turing architecture and its first ray tracing GPUs

Nvidia’s long-rumored Turing GPU architecture for next-generation graphics cards is finally official, and it’s more than we could have hoped for. Turing incorporates a number of new features and technologies, chief among them are new RT Cores that power real-time ray tracing. These specialized cores essentially compute how light and sound travel in a 3D …