NVIDIA held its CES 2025 keynote final night time with CEO Jensen Huang and it was surprisingly eventful. The corporate lastly unveiled its a lot awaited GeForce RTX 5000 GPUs that promise a substantial efficiency uplift, to begin with. The corporate didn't cease there, additionally saying Challenge Digits, a private AI supercomputer, together with DLSS 4 and extra. Right here's a wrap-up of what occurred — and you’ll watch the entire occasion uncut, through the YouTube embed under. (Spoiler alert: It's greater than 90 minutes lengthy.)
NVIDIA RTX 5000-series GPUs
Huang strode out in a brand new snakeskin-like leather-based jacket and revealed the much-anticipated RTX 5090 GPU. With 32GB of GDDR7 RAM and a powerful 21,760 CUDA cores, the brand new flagship can ship as much as twice as a lot relative efficiency, notably for ray-tracing (RT) intensive video games like Cyberpunk 2077. In truth that exact title ran at 234 fps with full RT on in a video demo, in comparison with 109 fps on the RTX 4090. It's not low cost, although, priced at $1,999.
The corporate additionally revealed the $549 RTX 5070 with a much more modest 6,144 CUDA cores and 12GB of DDR7 RAM, together with the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and $999 RTX 5080.
DLSS 4
A key a part of the RTX 5000-series launch was the introduction of DLSS 4, the newest model of the corporate's real-time picture upscaling know-how. It includes a new know-how referred to as Multi Body Era that enables the brand new GPUs to generate as much as three further frames for each one body the GPU produces through conventional rendering — serving to multiply body charges by as much as eight occasions. It additionally represents what NVIDIA calls the "greatest improve to its AI fashions" since DLSS 2, enhancing issues like temporal stability and element, whereas decreasing artifacts like ghosting.
Challenge Digits
Lastly, NVIDIA launched Challenge Digits, a "private AI supercomputer" designed for AI researchers, knowledge scientists and college students. It makes use of NVIDIA's new GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip, offering as much as a petaflop of efficiency for testing and working AI fashions. The corporate says a single Challenge Digits unit can run fashions 200 billion parameters in dimension, or a number of machines may be linked collectively to run as much as 405 billion parameter fashions. And for its meant viewers, Challenge Digits is comparatively low cost at $3,000.
On prime of all that, the corporate launched NVIDIA Cosmos world basis fashions for robotic and AV improvement, the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion AV platform for autonomous autos and AI Basis fashions for RTX PCs "that supercharge digital people." It's all defined within the video above and NVIDIA's CES 2025 keynote weblog.
NVDA inventory value seesaw
CES — and Huang's keynote — are taking place towards the backdrop of continued volatility within the firm's inventory value. NVIDIA shares (ticker NVDA) spiked forward of Huang's tackle, closing on Monday simply shy of Apple's market cap pinnacle. However Tuesday noticed a reversal, with the inventory down greater than 6 %. Nonetheless, some are betting it's a toss up between the 2 tech giants as to which can hit the $4 trillion market valuation first.
Replace, January 7 2025, 4:18PM ET: This story has been up to date with new particulars on Nvidia's inventory value.
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