NVIDIA GeForce: DX12 Ultimate (2024)

DXR (DirectX Ray Tracing)

DirectX Raytracing allows games to simulate how light works in real life, providing incredibly realistic and beautiful graphics effects like global illumination, reflections, and shadows. GeForce RTX GPUs were designed from the start for the demands of ray tracing workloads. Specialised RT cores, found only on GeForce RTX graphics cards, provide billions of rays per second of performance, and up to 3X the frame rates with DXR games and applications. This makes ray tracing at real-time frame rates possible for the first time.

VRS (Variable Rate Shading)

VRS is a new rendering technique that boosts performance by adjusting the shading rate for different parts of a scene. VRS enables NVIDIA Adaptive Shading, which measures motion and changes in colour from frame to frame to intelligently lower the shading rate in areas of the frame that don’t need it, such as sky boxes and walls. VRS can also be used in virtual reality games for foveated rendering—drawing more detail where your eyes are looking and less detail in the periphery where your eyes aren’t focused.

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VRS supported shading rates and example application to a game frame

Mesh Shading

If you’ve played an open-world game, you’ll know that cranking the level of detail can really impact performance as the CPU gets overwhelmed by issuing draw calls for each object in the environment. With Mesh Shading, the GPU intelligently controls level of detail selection and tessellation for objects, enabling rich, open worlds with hundreds of thousands of objects.

Sampler Feedback

Sampler Feedback shares the same philosophy as Variable Rate Shading: work smarter to reduce GPU load, to improve performance. Sampler Feedback improves computing between the texture and shader hardware. Developers and engines can use Sampler Feedback to implement sophisticated texture streaming algorithms, allowing large open worlds with beautiful high-resolution textures, without immersion-breaking stutter or texture pop-in. Sampler Feedback can also be used to implement texture space shading, for more efficient rendering.

Supported GPUs

GeForce RTX 3090

The GeForce RTX 3090 is colossally powerful in every way, giving you a whole new tier of performance, powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture.

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GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti delivers the ultra performance that gamers crave, powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture.

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GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture, giving you the power you need to rip through the most demanding games.

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GeForce RTX 3070

The GeForce RTX 3070 is powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture, giving you the power you need to rip through the most demanding games.

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti lets you take on the latest games using the power of Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd generation RTX architecture.

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GeForce RTX 3060

The GeForce RTX 3060 lets you take on the latest games using the power of Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd generation RTX architecture.

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GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptops

GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs power the world’s fastest laptops for gamers and creators. They’re built with the award-winning Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture.

TITAN RTX

With 72 Turing RT Cores and 24 GB of memory, TITAN RTX renders extra-large models, supports real-time 8K video editing, and runs complex, multi-application workflows to enable a smooth and seamless experience.

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GeForce RTX 20 Series Laptop

Incredibly fast, quiet performance. Real-time ray tracing and AI. And the mobility of the world’s thinnest and lightest designs...

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GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

NVIDIA’s newest flagship graphics card is a revolution in gaming realism and performance. Its powerful...

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GeForce RTX 2080 Super

The GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER is powered by the award-winning NVIDIA Turing architecture with more cores, higher clocks, and faster memory for ultimate performance and incredible new levels of realism. It’s time to gear up and get super powers.

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GeForce RTX 2080

The GeForce RTX 2080 is powered by the all-new NVIDIA Turing architecture to give you...

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GeForce RTX 2070 Super

The GeForce® RTX 2070 SUPER is powered by the award-winning NVIDIA Turing architecture and has a superfast GPU with more cores and faster clocks to unleash your creative productivity and gaming dominance. It’s time to gear up and get super powers.

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GeForce RTX 2070

The powerful new GeForce RTX 2070 takes advantage of the cutting-edge NVIDIA Turing architecture to immerse you...

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GeForce RTX 2060 Super

The GeForce® RTX 2060 SUPER is powered by the award-winning NVIDIA Turing architecture, bringing superfast all-around performance and graphics to every gamer and creator. It’s time to gear up and get super powers.

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GeForce RTX 2060

The GeForce RTX 2060 is powered by the NVIDIA Turing architecture, bringing incredible performance and the power of real-time...

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Previous Generations

MX SERIES

GeForce MX150
GeForce MX130
GeForce MX110

GTX 900 SERIES

GeForce GTX TITAN X
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce GTX 980
GeForce GTX 980M
GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 970M
GeForce GTX 965M
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce GTX 950
GeForce GTX 950M
GeForce GTX 950 (OEM)
GeForce 945M
GeForce 940MX
GeForce 940M
GeForce 930MX
GeForce 930M
GeForce 920MX
GeForce 920M
GeForce 910M

GTX 800 SERIES

GeForce GTX 880M
GeForce GTX 870M
GeForce GTX 860M
GeForce GTX 850M
GeForce 840M
GeForce 830M
GeForce 820M
GeForce 800M

GTX 700 SERIES

GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GeForce GTX TITAN Black
GeForce GTX TITAN
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
GeForce GTX 780M
GeForce GTX 780
GeForce GTX 770M
GeForce GTX 765M
GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM)
GeForce GTX 760 192-bit(OEM)
GeForce GTX 760
GeForce GTX 760M
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
GeForce GT 755M
GeForce GTX 750
GeForce GT 750M
GeForce GT 745M
GeForce GT 740
GeForce GT 740M
GeForce GT 735M
GeForce GT 730
GeForce GT 730M
GeForce GT 720
GeForce GT 720M
GeForce GT 710
GeForce 710M
GeForce 705M
GeForce GT 705 (OEM)

GTX 600 SERIES

GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 680MX
GeForce GTX 680M
GeForce GTX 680
GeForce GTX 670
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GeForce GTX 660
GeForce GTX 660M
GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
GeForce GTX 650
GeForce GT 640M LE
GeForce GT 620M
GeForce GT 625M
GeForce GTX 675MX
GeForce GTX 675M
GeForce GTX 670MX
GeForce GTX 670M
GeForce GTX 660 (OEM)
GeForce GT 650M
GeForce GT 645M
GeForce GT 640M
GeForce GT 640 (OEM)
GeForce GT 640
GeForce GT 635 (OEM)
GeForce GT 630
GeForce GT 630M
GeForce GT 635M
GeForce GT 630 (OEM)
GeForce GT 620
GeForce GT 610
GeForce 610M

GTX 500 SERIES

GeForce GTX 580
GeForce GTX 580M
GeForce GTX 570
GeForce GTX 570M
GeForce GTX 560
GeForce GTX 560M
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GeForce GTX 560 Ti (OEM)
GeForce GT 555M
GeForce GTX 555 (OEM)
GeForce GT 550MGeForce GT 520M
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GT 540M
GeForce GT 530 (OEM)
GeForce GT 525M
GeForce GT 520
GeForce GT 520M
GeForce GT 520MX
GeForce GT 520 (OEM)
GeForce 510 (OEM)

GTX 400 SERIES

GeForce GTX 485M
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 480M
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 470M
GeForce GTX 465
GeForce GTX 460
GeForce GTX 460M
GeForce GTX 460 SE
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GT 445M
GeForce GT 440
GeForce GT 435M
GeForce GT 430
GeForce GT 425M
GeForce GT 420M
GeForce 410M

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