GTX vs RTX – Which is better?
Let’s say that you want to build a computer or you want to change the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) of your existing PC since it had been outdated, you go to the market in search of a new one and there are two variants in front of you – GTX and RTX. You don’t know what is meant by all this and make the wrong decision. This article aims to help you in a situation like that and would try to give a basic difference between these terms. While there are many competitors in the market of GPUs (mainly Nvidia and AMD), we would only talk about the Nvidia processors as they are the most common, and the term GTX and RTX belong to them. What is GTX? GTX stands for Giga Texel Shader eXtreme and is a variant under the brand GeForce owned by Nvidia. They were first introduced in 2008 with series 200, codenamed Tesla. The first product in this series was GTX 260 and more expensive GTX 280. The introduction of these cards also affected the naming scheme and from the release of these cards onwards, Nv...