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?"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.
435 Comments on NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog
In their 5070=4090 claim with FG 4x of course which one has the lower latency becuase if the latency is significantly higher regardless of how many frames are being generated that isn't true.
if u just want to hope Nvidia 5070Ti fails so badly that it cant be faster than 4080, that u dream,not real world scenario Thats what Amd fans is hoping for.
i realy see and feel the pain of Amd fans.
I hope its not too much for someone when they see 5080 is faster than 4090 DLSS and FG gives nice boost, its realy cool how much Extra Fps we realy can get.
So when ppls say it sux or something its 90% of the time peoples who have Amd or never was using DLSS or FG U will be so suprised and silent afther u see 5080 is faster than 4090 That list have to be u dream from last night?
5080Ti slower than 4090
Realy? u joking?
Im so happy when we see benchmarks, this nonsens should stop.
5080 is faster than 4090
The amount of money this guy is making, he could come out with this (below) with pink lipstick on and still get a standing ovation and boardroom/stakeholder conga line festive spooning sessions.
I got my hands on the expected Brazilian pricing and launch dates, the ones that launch 3 February are pre-orders, the ones 12 and 15 Feb are standard orders. I can't vouch for the authenticity of this list with 100% certainty so take this with a grain of salt, but I think this math is mostly mathin'.
Noteworthy are the MSI Gaming Trio and Gigabyte Windforce cards which look to be quite affordable.
To give one example regarding the effect that these prices will bring:
Let's suppose that 5070Ti is 4080/4080S level in raster (it shouldn't be far off from this kind of performance), if the $749 MSRP sticks then automatically it makes 4080S bad value at $699 because all of the advancements like MFG and especially neural rendering capabilities (like neural texture compression and material shading
which from what I understand will not be possible in ada or older gen because it requires the shader array to be able to process neural network algorithms) I'm not even mentioning the other advancements like maybe better raytracing performance or possibly more advanced media engine etc)So 4080S bad value at $699, what about RX 7900XTX, AMD themselves at launch though that they should be $200 lower than 4080 ($999 vs $1199) then when 4080S launched RX 7900XTX entry models went gradually to $899 so $100 less than 4080S, so if 4080S will be bad value at $699 in the same way RX 7900XTX will be bad value at $649 (only $50 difference this time vs 4080S)
Of course if AMD partners doesn't have stock of this item (which may be the case) it may stay at the same price or even increase or whenever, I'm just point out what price theoretically it should be and based on $749 RTX 5070Ti the entry level models of RX 7900XTX should be $649 with this logic, it may be an exaggeration but isn't far from the truth)
Edit: I'm not sure but it seems neural rendering will be supported from prior RTX generations also? my original understanding was based on the keynote: "one of the amazing things about this generation is the programmable shader is also able to now process neural networks so the shader is able to carry these neural networks and as a result we invented neural texture compression and neural material shading"
Edit 2: it seems it will supported on Blackwell only, it needs support for cooperative vectors:
The HLSL team is working with AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm on bringing cross-vendor support for cooperative vectors to the DirectX ecosystem.Cooperative vectors will unlock the power of Tensor Cores with neural shading in NVIDIA’s new RTX 50-series hardware.
Links 1 & 2
You are just preparing your wallet and cognitive dissonance to overspend again. There is literally nothing new here but DLSS4.
People have totally lost their minds.
Anyways, not sure if they are trolling for the clickbait or they actually believe that. EG. wccftech has an article titled "4090 performance for 549$". Tech and gaming journalism has fallen to the religion of clickbaitism.
I hope it's an amazing card but AMD doesn't seem the most confident about it but who knows hopefully we get the full picture soon... We don't even know how good the 5070 is unless people think being able to use MF FG is worth 550 usd because we know it can do that.
Look at FSR. Surpassed on all fronts by both green and blue. RT: was supposed to already be improved in RDNA3. It just ain't happening. The talent drain due to lack of investment is real and the old boys don't understand it.
I think the 'we go midrange' announcement was already heavy cope for their lack of development. They already were moving in various ways with 'RDNA 3.5' and what not. We've seen this a dozen times before in the last few decades. RTG is too slow and lacks competence on many if not all fronts. They can build raster performance just fine. Scale GPUs just fine. But featureset? It was never their thing. The beautiful power of peer pressure and social media. You're not going to be the idiot saying everyone's wrong, are you? And people wonder why things are going to shit and they don't understand things anymore... :)
The reality is the low end stuff from Nvidia is getting worse and worse and AMD isn't offering alternatives that get people excited. If RDNA4 is a bust lets hope UDNA is the answer.
Lisa is magical on stage - imagine walking up there, announcing a 499$ 9070XT that smashes the crap out of the 5070. Instasold.