This Month On Edge

The things that caught our eye during the production of E324

When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this

GRAPHICS CARD

This year’s Gamescom kicked off with a bit of hardware hysteria as Nvidia announced its RTX Geforce 2000 series of graphics cards. The new GPUs are built around two new cores, Tensor and Ray Tracing, in addition to the usual CUDA. In truth, the madness started ahead of schedule: leaks meant that preorders for the 2070 and the top-ofthe-range RTX 2080 Ti sold out before Nvidia had even put on its tie and stepped on stage. Admittedly, even at the princely sum of £1,099, the 2080 Ti is a tempting prospect, the Turing-based card boasting almost 18 billion transistors. If you’re not worried about winning any chip-measuring contests, though, the 2080’s still out.