

However, one must remember that with their dedicated RT cores, the GeForce RTX 20 range provide up to 2-3x faster performance in raytraced games, facilitating more effects, higher ray counts, and higher resolutions.

With the new driver installed "millions more gamers with GeForce GTX GPUs to experience ray tracing for the first time ever," says Nvidia. Thanks to this new driver there are now "tens of millions of DXR GPUs" in consumer PCs. It is called the GeForce Game Ready Driver version 425.31 WHQL and is available immediately. Today the driver enabling real-time raytracing on the GTX 1060 6GB and better has been released. Back at the GDC 2019 in mid-March, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed that real-time raytracing technology was about to become available to a lot more Nvidia GPU owners in the coming weeks.
