What NVIDIA graphics cards support ray tracing?

Improve the quality of your gaming experience with these ray tracing capable cards

Sebastian Kozlowski

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NVIDIA is among the most prominent manufacturers of graphics cards. They’ve been at the forefront of technology for real-time ray tracing.

Ray tracing allows for realistic lighting and shadows in video games and other graphical applications, and NVIDIA recently released several graphics cards that support real-time ray tracing, giving gamers and professionals alike an immersive photorealistic graphics experience like never before.

Nvidia ray tracing cards

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 series was the first set of graphics cards to offer real-time ray tracing. So the new brand of RTX brings the separation and show of support for the new technology.

Built upon the Turing architecture, these cards come equipped with dedicated hardware known as RT cores that expedite calculations related to ray tracing. Top models in this lineup include GeForce on the 2080 Ti, 2080 Super, and 2070 Super, all supporting real-time ray tracing capabilities.

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards take ray tracing performance to new heights. Built on the Ampere architecture, these graphics cards boast second-generation RT cores that deliver up to twice the performance of their predecessors.

Models such as GeForce RTX 4090, 4080, and 4070 Ti are among the highest-performing models in this series that support real-time ray tracing capabilities.

Real-time ray-tracing in video games gives you photorealistic shadows and lighting, creating more realistic virtual environments like never before. It also enables advanced effects like reflections, refractions, and global illumination, which were previously impossible to recreate with real-time graphics.

Real-time ray tracing is not only used in gaming but also in professional applications like architectural visualization, product design, and film production.

NVIDIA’s Quadro series of graphics cards for professionals supports real-time ray tracing with even more powerful RT cores and CUDA cores, making them perfect for demanding workflows that require real-time ray tracing.

NVIDIA has a wide range of models of graphics cards that support real-time ray tracing, from high-end models like those of the GeForce RTX 30 series to professional-grade models such as that of the Quadro series. Real-time ray tracing is an innovative technology enabling photorealistic graphics in real-time applications, and NVIDIA is leading this charge.