Nvidia’s first Turing GPUs will be professional Quadro RTX cards

Well, would you look at that? Nvidia have just lifted the lid on their brand-new Turing graphics cards – and ghee whiz do they look powerful. Don’t get too excited just yet, though, as the only cards Nvidia announced last night at computer graphics and animation conference Siggraph are (yep, you guessed it) all professional Quadro RTX models: the Quadro RTX 8000, Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 5000.

That said, with Turing now well and truly out of the bag, I reckon we’ll most likely see those coveted GTX models get unveiled at Nvidia’s big Gamescom event next week. So let’s take a look at what’s in store, because if the capabilities of Nvidia’s new Turing Quadro cards are anything to go by, the consumer GTX versions will make today’s best graphics cards look like yesterday’s news.

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