Monday, January 6th 2025
NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog
NVIDIA kicks off the 2025 International CES with a bang. The company is expected to debut its new GeForce "Blackwell" RTX 5000 generation of gaming graphics cards. It is also expected to launch new technology, such as neural rendering, and DLSS 4. The company is also expected to highlight a new piece of silicon for Windows on Arm laptops, showcase the next in its Drive PX FSD hardware, and probably even talk about its next-generation "Blackwell Ultra" AI GPU, and if we're lucky, even namedrop "Rubin." Join us, as we liveblog CEO Jensen Huang's keynote address.
02:22 UTC: The show is finally underway!
02:35 UTC: CTA president Gary Shaprio kicks off the show, introduces Jensen Huang.
02:46 UTC: "Tokens are the building blocks of AI"
02:46 UTC: "Do you like my jacket?"
02:47 UTC: NVIDIA recounts progress all the way till NV1 and UDA.
02:48 UTC: "CUDA was difficult to explain, it took 6 years to get the industry to like it"
02:50 UTC: "AI is coming home to GeForce". NVIDIA teases neural material and neural rendering. Rendered on "Blackwell"
02:55 UTC: Every single pixel is ray traced, thanks to AI rendering.
02:55 UTC: Here it is, the GeForce RTX 5090.
03:20 UTC: At least someone is pushing the limits for GPUs.
03:22 UTC: Incredible board design.
03:22 UTC: RTX 5070 matches RTX 4090 at $550.
03:24 UTC: Here's the lineup, available from January.
03:24 UTC: RTX 5070 Laptop starts at $1299.
03:24 UTC: "The future of computer graphics is neural rendering"
03:25 UTC: Laptops powered by RTX Blackwell: staring prices:
03:26 UTC: AI has come back to power GeForce.
03:28 UTC: Supposedly the Grace Blackwell NVLink72.
03:28 UTC: 1.4 ExaFLOPS.
03:32 UTC: NVIDIA very sneakily teased a Windows AI PC chip.
03:35 UTC: NVIDIA is teaching generative AI basic physics. NVIDIA Cosmos, a world foundation model.
03:41 UTC: NVIDIA Cosmos is trained on 20 million hours of video.
03:43 UTC: Cosmos is open-licensed on GitHub.
03:52 UTC: NVIDIA onboards Toyota for its next generation EV for full-self driving.
03:53 UTC: NVIDIA unveils Thor Blackwell robotics processor.
03:53 UTC: Thor is 20x the processing capability of Orin.
03:54 UTC: CUDA is now a functional safe computer thanks to its automobile certifications.
04:01 UTC: NVIDIA brought a dozen humanoid robots to the stage.
04:07 UTC: Project DIGITS, is a shrunk down AI supercomputer.
04:08 UTC: NVIDIA GB110 "Grace-Blackwell" chip powers DIGITS.
02:46 UTC: "Do you like my jacket?"
03:35 UTC: NVIDIA is teaching generative AI basic physics. NVIDIA Cosmos, a world foundation model.
03:43 UTC: Cosmos is open-licensed on GitHub.
03:52 UTC: NVIDIA onboards Toyota for its next generation EV for full-self driving.
03:53 UTC: NVIDIA unveils Thor Blackwell robotics processor.
03:54 UTC: CUDA is now a functional safe computer thanks to its automobile certifications.
04:07 UTC: Project DIGITS, is a shrunk down AI supercomputer.
313 Comments on NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog
Edit: DO YOU LIKE MY JACKET!?
A bit too gaudy for my taste, a bit too noevau riche, too “Vegas pimp”. Worn saddle leather would be classier.
edit here comes the fake benchmarks with 4x frame generation....
Prices aren't bad as long as they are actually faster than what they replace.
$500 cheaper than what I expected for the 5090, and the 5070 is going to pose a significant challenge for AMD to overcome at that price. RX 9070 XT will likely need to be priced at $400 or less.
I like how its rated in AI instead of FPS, lets me know where the Nvidia game is at, get ready for the Nvidia AI chair with AI simulated neural jerking off from avatars of sweaty dudes in leather jackets.
Reflex 2 with frame warp
DLSS4 MFG page live:
www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss4-multi-frame-generation-ai-innovations/
Not compatible with Ada
RTX 5090 render
www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-50-series-graphics-cards-gpu-laptop-announcements/
RTX 5090 and 5080 will be available starting January 30th
Those with questions regarding the neural textures showcased, it is an implementation of a technique NV has been cooking for some time, here is a pdf for a 2023 academic document with the full technical aspects (don't worry if you don't understand any of this, it isn't meant for laymen)
arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17105
Also, gimme me that RTX 5090!