Nvidia has teased its next-generation mainstream graphics architecture alongside the debut of its new Turing hardware. Although we're still what could be a couple of weeks away from a full scale release, the details are starting to appear in what could be an exciting time for Nvidia fans.
During the 2018 Siggraph show, Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed off a few new Turing cards in the Quadro range. They are known as the RTX 8000, RTX 6000, and RTX 5000. They're no good for gaming but should usher in a new generation of high-performance rendering for industry professionals and AI developers. They're even good at ray-tracing, we're told, which could mean they show up in streaming platforms in the future.
The news we're more excited about though is the tease of a new card in a video designed to hype up fans for the upcoming Cologne-based GeForce Gaming Celebration event. It talked up a new USB-C connection using Nvidia's VirtuaLink protocol, but the big tease was for a new RTX 2080 card. Hinted at during the video below (thanks Eurogamer), this could mean the end of Nvidia's long-running GTX moniker, making everything al the more confusing, since RX is AMD's nomenclature for many of its video cards.
That may suggest that the new cards are Turing based, which would be a surprise. We would think that'd be reserved for mining hardware, but revealing that at a gaming show seems like an odd idea.
Regardless, we should know a whole lore more in a week or two. Keep your eyes peeled.
