Tuesday, December 17th 2024
NVIDIA Blackwell RTX and AI Features Leaked by Inno3D
NVIDIA's RTX 5000 series GPU hardware has been leaked repeatedly in the weeks and months leading up to CES 2025, with previous leaks tipping significant updates for the RTX 5070 Ti in the VRAM department. Now, Inno3D is apparently hinting that the RTX 5000 series will also introduce updated machine learning and AI tools to NVIDIA's GPU line-up. An official CES 2025 teaser published by Inno3D, titled "Inno3D At CES 2025, See You In Las Vegas!" makes mention of potential updates to NVIDIA's AI acceleration suite for both gaming and productivity.
The Inno3D teaser specifically points out "Advanced DLSS Technology," "Enhanced Ray Tracing" with new RT cores, "better integration of AI in gaming and content creation," "AI-Enhanced Power Efficiency," AI-powered upscaling tech for content creators, and optimizations for generative AI tasks. All of this sounds like it builds off of previous NVIDIA technology, like RTX Video Super Resolution, although the mention of content creation suggests that it will be more capable than previous efforts, which were seemingly mostly consumer-focussed. Of course, improved RT cores in the new RTX 5000 GPUs is also expected, although it will seemingly be the first time NVIDIA will use AI to enhance power draw, suggesting that the CES announcement will come with new features for the NVIDIA App. The real standout feature, though, are called "Neural Rendering" and "Advanced DLSS," both of which are new nomenclatures. Of course, Advanced DLSS may simply be Inno3D marketing copy, but Neural Rendering suggests that NVIDIA will "Revolutionize how graphics are processed and displayed," which is about as vague as one could be.
Just based on the information Inno3D has revealed, we can speculate that there will be a new DLSS technology, perhaps DLSS 4. As for Neural Rendering, NVIDIA has a page detailing research it has done relating to new methods of AI-generated textures, shading, and lighting, although it's unclear which of these new methods—which seem like they will also need to be added to games on the developer side—it will implement. Whatever it is, though, NVIDIA will likely divulge the details when it reveals its new 5000 series GPUs.
Sources:
HardwareLuxx, NVIDIA
The Inno3D teaser specifically points out "Advanced DLSS Technology," "Enhanced Ray Tracing" with new RT cores, "better integration of AI in gaming and content creation," "AI-Enhanced Power Efficiency," AI-powered upscaling tech for content creators, and optimizations for generative AI tasks. All of this sounds like it builds off of previous NVIDIA technology, like RTX Video Super Resolution, although the mention of content creation suggests that it will be more capable than previous efforts, which were seemingly mostly consumer-focussed. Of course, improved RT cores in the new RTX 5000 GPUs is also expected, although it will seemingly be the first time NVIDIA will use AI to enhance power draw, suggesting that the CES announcement will come with new features for the NVIDIA App. The real standout feature, though, are called "Neural Rendering" and "Advanced DLSS," both of which are new nomenclatures. Of course, Advanced DLSS may simply be Inno3D marketing copy, but Neural Rendering suggests that NVIDIA will "Revolutionize how graphics are processed and displayed," which is about as vague as one could be.
87 Comments on NVIDIA Blackwell RTX and AI Features Leaked by Inno3D
Regardless, this article is right about Inno3D's taglines being able to mean anything. Marketing is marketing for a reason, after all. Improved AI features also aren't surprising, though most of those probably won't benefit the average consumer much and will be targeted towards the enterprise sectors that would've bought an RTX 5090 anyways.
I can't wait to see what they have cooked up for the RTX 5000 series and I will grab a RTX 5090 as soon as the initial onslaught has died down. I made the (minor) mistake of being a too early adopter of the RTX 4090 but no one really knew if we'd see a repeat of the CoVid and crypto scalping craze when those cards were released. I bought mine for ~€2400 and three months later the cards were consistently sold for under €2000.
This time I will wait two or three months until prices and availability have normalized. Then that sweet RTX 5090 ass is mine! :D
Card with label AI = 2000 $
Card with script = 500$
"AI-Enhanced power efficiency", what are you on about nvidia? You would rather sell smoke than actually push for a lower TDP?
You are chasing a ghost. Well, you and everyone like you. And its funny because jacket man can look at people like you as an easy cash grab because you will fall for such marketing.
Or you mean 4K at 240hz playing terraria or stardew valley.
I also have to wonder how additional AI will impact VRAM usage. The AI is going to have an overhead but it's also feasible that if the GPU doesn't need to store as much lighting data in the VRAM it could reduce VRAM usage. Then again the AI might need that data and simply be additive to VRAM consumption.
Even though I enjoy tinkering with AI a lot, I feel like it should be pointed out that AI has downsides. In the case of generating assets that's typically a reduction in quality , heavy limits to resolution, added visual artifacts, concept bleed, and noticeable patterns to output content. In regards to the latter, you can often start to notice patterns in content generated by AI even when the input is different. It gets worse when you start feeding AI generated content into AI as those downsides tend to stack.Nvidia occupies about 13% of Nvidia's mind, which is about the proportion of sales it represents to them.
Make no mistake, it's pushing AI improvements for it's enterprise customers and not gamers.
woohoo :rolleyes:
Anyway, it's not a healthy mindset to point one's finger at whoever's closest by, and blame them for the things that aren't right in the world. Let's enjoy each other's presence here! :peace:
... and I'm not making that mistake. It still takes "translation" to the consumer market and a lot of work on the software and feature set side to adapt it for the consumer market. That remains impressive, no matter how much people want to downplay it.
I mean, nVidia could be a complacent and lazy company like AMD :p and only release cards that are 10% faster every generation but they actually choose to keep pushing the envelope, in spite of the fact that less than 10% of their business is gaming these days.
I was fully expecting them to take a break with regard to gaming because, given the extreme boost in revenue, it would have only made sense to shift all of their engineers to work on AI/DC stuff but here we are with all new features on the consumer RTX 5000 front. That is commendable and I'm really looking forward to that RTX 5090 masterpiece. Bring it on, Jen-Hsun! Let's do this shit! :D
But I have so many remarks:
People like you will never buy an AMD gpu.
Well, maybe if they released a gpu that its faster than the 5090 and cost 500, mayyybe some of you will consider it.
Anyways, sounds to me that they will pull the same shenanigans they pulled with dlss and the 40 series.
When the market is screwing you, you try to protest the prices. Most countries do. I find everyone here too lazy and complacent. I actually do complain about people who buy certain cars for exact same reason.
The worst part is, my 2K is not your 2K lol, its even lower.
But our government just imploded, so there is that.
Nvidia being the worst but AMD not much better. Hence why I'm gonna sit till I see what the B7 series from Intel deliver.
I remember when I bought my used 980 Classified, watching J2C talk about his and how he paid 700USD for his.. like wow.. that's crazy talk bro.
I've been consistent with this and dlss makes everything a blurry smear of a mess.
It's far better to play at 1440p without dlss than higher with dlss. But paying over 2K to achieve that is a joke in itself.