If you’re wondering why Nvidia’s made such an enormous song and dance out of a consumer graphics card launch, it’s because the company spent ‘billions’ on getting its new architecture to market and now has to make the numbers add up. Its performance this year makes it by far the most powerful consumer level graphics card (ignoring the outrageous Titan X), and netted it our Graphics Card of the Year award at our 2016 Trusted Reviews Awards ceremony. The GTX 1080 is Nvidia’s latest top-end graphics card, ready to take on this year’s two-pronged assault of VR and 4K gaming. Read our original review from 2016 below What is the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080? Check back then to find out how the GTX 1080 handles ray tracing. We’ll retest the GTX 1080 when the update rolls out. The tech aims to let games render more realistic shadow, light and reflection effects. Ray tracing was unveiled alongside Nvidia’s latest gen RTX, Turing graphics cards. The update adding ray tracing to GTX cards is scheduled to arrive at some point in April and will let compatible Direct X games utilise the next generation graphics technology. Nvidia announced plans to add support for ray tracing via a drive update at its GDC keynote earlier in March. Editor’s note: The GTX 1080’s about to get ray tracing support added to it in the very near future.
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