Gaming event convention Gamescom 2018 is currently ongoing in Germany, and American tech company NVIDIA kicked it off with the introduction of its new high-end graphics cards -- GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti.

The new GeForce RTX series is its first gaming GPUs based on the company's new Turing architecture and the RTX platform, which fuses next-generation shaders with real-time ray tracing, and all-new AI capabilities.

NVIDIA notes that the new GPUs boast "up to 6X the performance of previous-generation graphics cards," and packed with new features like real-time ray tracing of objects and environments with physically accurate shadows, reflections, refractions and global illumination, the new Turning arch paired with Variable Rate Shading allows shaders to focus on areas of rich detail.

Availability for the new GeForce RTX graphic cards begins September 20, with the 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080, but you can already pre-order them today.

The RTX 2070 will be available in October, and start at $499 USD, with the RTX 2080 at $699 USD, and the RTX 2080 Ti listed for $999 USD.

The company is also offering Founders Editions for all three graphics cards. The GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition will be priced at $599 USD, followed by the RTX 2080 Founders Edition at $799 USD, and the RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition retailing for $1,199 USD.

For the full details and tech specs head over to NVIDIA.

Last year, NVIDIA unveiled its first Tesla V100 data center GPU, built to train AI.