This series, while based on the Turing architecture, lacks the Tensor (artificial intelligence) and RT (ray tracing) cores unique to Turing, providing a lower cost alternative to the "RTX" GeForce 20 Series. However, on March 18, 2019 Nvidia announced that in a driver due for April 2019 they would enable DirectX Raytracing on 10 series cards starting with the 1060 6 GB, and in the 16 series cards, a feature reserved to the Turing-based RTX series up to that point.