Ever since Nvidia officially unveiled their Turing RTX 2080 cards on Monday, we’ve heard nothing but ‘ray tracing this’ and ‘Giga Rays that’ – so much so that I can probably now recite 3573 things about their fancy pants lighting equations off by heart. What I can’t say 3753 things about is their frame rate performance, mostly because Nvidia have only revealed a small handful of very specific figures so far regarding RTX 2080 vs GTX 1080 benchmarks and I haven’t been able to do any independent testing on them, making it nigh-on impossible to tell how they really compare to the rest of today’s best graphics cards.
After speaking with Metro Exodus developers 4A Games, however, we might finally have some idea of what to expect when Nvidia’s pretty RTX settings are all switched on.