Which graphics cards are specifically optimized for ray tracing?

NVIDIA RTX graphics cards are specifically optimized for ray tracing, a rendering technique that simulates the way light interacts with objects in a realistic manner. This technology requires a significant amount of computational power and advanced hardware features to calculate the complex lighting effects, shadows, and reflections that ray tracing delivers.

The architecture of NVIDIA RTX cards incorporates dedicated ray tracing cores that enable real-time ray tracing capabilities, significantly improving the visual quality of games and other graphics applications that use this technique. In contrast, other options like GTX and Tesla series cards do not possess the same level of optimization for ray tracing, with GTX being designed primarily for traditional rasterization without the dedicated hardware features for ray tracing. Tesla graphics cards, while powerful, are designed for high-performance computing tasks and not specifically for gaming or graphics rendering, which means they lack the same ray tracing functionality present in RTX cards. The Titan series has strong performance capabilities but does not focus on ray tracing optimization in the same manner as RTX.