GeForce 20 series
The GeForce 20 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia. Serving as the successor to the GeForce 10 series, the line started shipping on September 20, 2018, and after several editions, on July 2, 2019, the GeForce RTX Super line of cards was announced.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition released in 2018 | |
| Release date |
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| Discontinued | November 28, 2022 |
| Manufactured by | TSMC |
| Designed by | Nvidia |
| Marketed by | Nvidia |
| Codename | TU10x |
| Architecture | Turing |
| Models | GeForce RTX series |
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| Fabrication process | TSMC 12 nm (FinFET) |
| Cards | |
| Entry-level |
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| Mid-range |
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| High-end |
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| Enthusiast |
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| API support | |
| DirectX | Direct3D 12.0 (feature level 12_2) Shader Model 6.7 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
| Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3 |
| History | |
| Predecessor | GeForce 10 series |
| Variant | GeForce 16 series |
| Successor | GeForce 30 series |
| Support status | |
| Supported | |
The 20 series marked the introduction of Nvidia's Turing microarchitecture, and the first generation of RTX cards, the first in the industry to implement realtime hardware ray tracing in a consumer product. In a departure from Nvidia's usual strategy, the 20 series has no entry level range, leaving it to the 16 series to cover this segment of the market.
These cards are succeeded by the GeForce 30 series, powered by the Ampere microarchitecture, which first launched in 2020.