Following on from the huge success that was the Pascal architecture, today marks the release of Nvidia’s Turing architecture into the wild. We have reviews of both the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti ready for launch – but this particular review focuses on the £1099 behemoth that is the RTX 2080 Ti.

Nvidia has certainly gone with a different pricing strategy with Turing – the GTX 1080 Ti costs £669 , when its supposed successor will set you back an extra £430 at launch. That’s an effective 64% generation price hike – so what are you getting for your money?

Foremost among the appeal of the RTX 2080 Ti is the ray tracing abilities. As you may already be aware, we cannot yet test this feature out in actual games – we are still waiting for Microsoft’s DirectX Raytracing (DXR) update that is slated for next month. We do have the results from one ray tracing demo, presented later in this review, while of course there are the usual slew of benchmarks as well.