Here are all the games that support Nvidia’s RTX ray tracing

NVIDIA made a big splash earlier this week with the official unveiling of its next-generation of consumer graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 20 Series. The GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti are all based on a totally new GPU architecture dubbed Turing, that incorporates additional cores optimized for Ray Tracing and Tensor operations, like those used for AI and Deep Learning. The compute capabilities of the GeForce RTX 20 series are as such that the cards are able to handle real-time Ray Tracing and perform some interesting image enhancements, when applications are tuned to use NVIDIA’s RTX technology and software stack. Details of NVIDIA’s new GPU and the graphics cards based on them are available right here if you want some additional information on the individual models that are coming down the pipeline and where they fit in NVIDIA’s line-up. Rest assured, the GeForce RTX 20 series card are poised to be the highest performing consumer-targeted graphics cards available when they hit store shelves next month.

What is Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing is the lighting technique is the closest approximation we have for modeling the way light behaves in the real world, and it looks beautiful. But which games support it? The list isn’t long but it’s going to keep growing.

Here are all the games that support Nvidia’s RTX ray tracing

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Shadow of the Tomb Raider might have run into a few frame rate issues on the show floor, but it proved a great example of just how pretty ray-traced lighting can be. Look for it to launch on September 14.

Assetto Corsa

The 2014 release of Assetto Corsa has always been a beautiful game, but developer Kunos Simulazioni is looking to take Assetto Corsa Competizione visuals to a new level with the introduction of ray tracing technology. The game will launch as soon as September 12, so will be one of the first games to be able to take advantage of the RT cores inside Nvidia’s new 2000-series GPUs.

Battlefield V

Battlefield V was showcased right alongside Nvidia’s new cards at Gamescom with reflections of explosions in everything from car doors to eyeballs. It’s slated for release on October 11.


Atomic Heart

Atomic Heart is described as an “alt universe” shooter set at the height of the Soviet Union but with a rather different interpretation of how the world might have turned out. While its universe might be strange and hard to pin down though, its graphics technology won’t be. It’s beautiful, and ray tracing will only enhance that. Atomic Heart is expected to release sometime in 2019.

Control

Control would be a striking game with or without ray tracing, but its lighting and reflections look hauntingly otherworldly in the Nvidia RTX demonstration. The third-person action-adventure title will have a number of PC-only graphical improvements. Look out for more from Control in 2019.

Enlisted

Enlisted is a World War II squad shooter MMO that looks to recreate some of the most expansive battles of the war. You may not have time to take in all of the pretty ray tracing effects, but when it debuts in late 2018 you’ll get your chance.

Mechwarrior V: Mercenaries

The next entry in the iconic Mechwarrior series, Mechwarrior V: Mercenaries will feature plenty of raw and scraped metal for ray-traced lighting to reflect off of, making it a great example of the technology’s early implementation. It’s slated for a Q1 2019 release.

Metro Exodus

The Metro series has always been at the forefront of new graphical technology and Exodus is no different. We saw a ray tracing demo using the Exodus engine earlier this year and the latest demonstration of its graphical chops is no less impressive. Metro Exodus is slated to launch on February 22, 2019.