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.
446 Comments on NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog
I still miss the days of a further cut down big die part i.e. 5080Ti for ~$1200. One can dream.
5070 can only hope to fake its way to 4090 horsepower with AI tricks.
I hope DLSS tech gets better this gen. Fake frames are nice to use in a pinch, but they definitely have noticeable and distracting artifacts. Not an end game solution, just a way to distract the public with more performance while leveraging the baked in AI tech of the GPUs.
People have truly done lost their minds. You are paying 1000$ for half of the flagship.
We’ve been through this in the past with nvidias releases
On the other hand, it's really hard to demonstrate what FG actually does so what other way do you actually have besides putting them on a graph?Ive read comments similar to yours a hundred times this past week. You are not doing your side any favors. Honestly, on the list of why im not buying amd GPUs "obnoxious comments by the company's fans" is at the top.
Nvidia have said AI about 9000 times and we have no benchmarks, just vague handwavium to say that the 5070 is as fast as a 4090 with no details on how that quote was obtained.
It's unlikely that the 5070 can match the 4090 without assistance, so presumably DLSS4 AI Neural AI Frame-Gen AI can AI deliver some AI fake frames at the same rate the 4090 can render frames natively without as much AI?
The real question is when do we get the first independent review (of the 5080FE, I think, right?)
FG is also realy good, finaly high Fps in 4KJust buy the flagship 2000$
Or half the price, half the gpu 5080
Or just buy AMD
I am very smart.
Its a good 5000 shader units short of that GPU. There is no way its going to surpass it, honestly, even (or especially not) at 360W.
And here we have people saying 'muh, good prices'. :roll::roll: what the fck
The 5080 is also a big nothing burger if you know the 4080 Super exists. Same shader count. Same VRAM but a slight bit faster. Similar price. Every last bit of extra perf is probably paid by having to buy a new PSU, as this fantastic x80 is the first one to consume power like a flagship card on an OC.
I like reading peoples comments and then playing catch up with each new comment with TPU notifications. But, 11-pages already!! F-that!
50-series:
They've got us by the balls again! Its the same old game - toss out rumors and leaks to make us think prices are gonna be through the roof, so when launch day hits and its still expensive, but not as expensive as our fuelled predictions, we’re somehow sitting there like “Oh thank goodness, what a bargain!”. Classic hustle.
Not gonna lie, I’m kinda relieved though. Definitely ready to upgrade and finally break free from my current GPU bottleneck. A $750 5070 Ti might just do the job. If the 5080 actually delivers 4090-level or better performance, it’s definitely up for consideration. The least i'm expecting, absent of FG/DLSS, at 1440p, is a 50% increase in performance over my 3080 - if the 5070 TI is capable, its a BUY.
Come on Whizzy, jump over them NDAs and drop them reviews already!! :clap:
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