Watch Live: Nvidia's Gamescom Press Conference

Gamescom, as its proper noun suggests, a gaming-focused conference. Simply the best gaming experience requires powerful hardware, so Nvidia is making a much-hyped appearance in Cologne, Frg, today for a press conference that'due south expected to include the launch of new graphics cards.

We are expecting to see new gaming graphics cards based on Nvidia'southward Turing architecture, which surfaced in the outset Nvidia Quadro RTX cards announced at SIGGRAPH last calendar week.

Leaks suggest we'll come across the new RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080. As Forbes reports, the the GTX 1080 Ti will boost its CUDA cores from iii,584 to 4,352, up 21 percent. The RTX 2080 will leap from 2,560 to 2,944 CUDA cores, upwards xv percent. If true, this will be the biggest PC gaming graphics news since 2022.

Nosotros'll have to wait until nine a.thou. PT / noon ET to come across what Nvidia has upwards its sleeve. That's when President and CEO Jensen Huang takes the stage for a presentation that Nvidia says "volition be loaded with exclusive, easily-on demos running on the hottest upcoming games, presentations from some of the world'due south biggest game developers and some spectacular surprises."

Sentry live in the video above or directly via Twitch.

Later this week, meanwhile, exist sure to cheque out our sister site, IGN, which will stream gameplay demos, developer interviews, and more than from the show from Tuesday, Aug. 21 to Thursday, Aug. 23 beginning at ix a.m. ET each twenty-four hours.

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Chloe has led PCMag'due south news coverage for more than 10 years, editing and writing stories almost the innovations that have shaped the last decade and the companies behind them. She also oversees the site'south how-to coverage. Before joining PCMag.com, Chloe was a reporter covering tech policy on Capitol Hill for The National Journal'southward Engineering Daily and financial Information technology for Incisive Media in NYC. She's held internships at NBC's Meet the Press, washingtonpost.com, the Tate Gallery printing function in London, Roll Call, and Congressional Quarterly. She graduated with a bachelor'due south degree in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.