Nvidia's RTX 20 series launched eight years ago today, introducing real-time ray tracing to PC gaming

Nvidia's Turing-based GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti launched on this date in 2018, marking the first consumer graphics cards capable of real-time ray tracing. The more affordable RTX 2070 followed months later in October, while CEO Jensen Huang promoted the technology as ushering in a new era of gaming realism.