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.
470 Comments on NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog
Lol, don’t be a sucker for AMD. They aren’t your freind.
Still I want to see it in action and if it's better than OG Frame generation I just don't think I will care if I am getting 140fps with frame generation at 35ms or 240fps with Multi frame generation at 35ms lol it's going to feel the same and just look slightly smoother.I mean they both do this so it shouldn't be a surprise amd tries to fake it slightly less but the 5900XT/5800XT was especially bad trying to pass them off as equal to rocketlake in gaming. I am going to take Geralts stance on this one... Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same
The focus this gen is firmly on AI. The updates to DLSS and FG are purely switches to newer models that Nvidia could easily do as a side project to it's AI R&D.The problem is that the 4090 is CPU limited a lot regardless of whether RT is enabled or not. Mega Geometry isn't supposed to solve the overhead problem in general, just tame some of it in regards to RT. Mega Geometry itself is just batching BVH updates on the GPU.
My guess is the 3 lower cards will be slightly lower than that overall with the 5090 being slightly higher...Not when We want to see actual performance improvements and not how much frame generation X3 improves stuff if all they were announcing was MF Frame generation and showing us how it is different I agree but these are actual gpu's and this is just one thing they do and to focus on that one thing would make anyone thing they are hiding actual RT/Raster gains gen on gen.
The common ground between both? Lets see what reputable reviews get with their 'here and now' benchmark suites of expected titles.
A 5090 with its 32GB and FP4 support could do 4096x4096 blazing fast. If you don't give a damn about quality, Q2 should be able to do 8k.
On the other hand you're still paying a minimum of $750 for a 16 GB frame buffer, and it looks like the perf uplift on non-90 cards will be largely inconsequential. Framegen 4x is firmly, at least to me, in the "cool but not useful" category. It does make one wonder what Nvidia will do about their first-party benchmarks going forward, though--are they just going to keep increasing the framegen multiplier to juice the charts? Framegen 8x in two years? Framegen 16x in four years? At some point, the rollercoaster has to end, doesn't it? They can't keep finding ways to spin 100+% gen-on-gen gains out of nothing ... right? Right?
Anyway, it's been a fun thread. I think it's time for me to go enjoy my super-top-secret futuristic zero-input 24x Framegen tech, though. (It's a movie.)
I don't know why you keep mentioning AMD here. NVIDIA is not a friend too, especially with the misleading marketing.Is FP8 not doable on the RTX 50 due to architectural changes? Why can't they just run the RX 50 series in FP8 quantization for a fair comparison instead?
I'm not a fan. That doesn't make the data false but it's only showing potentially how much better frame generation is not how good these cards are.I agree with him for the most part though this shouldn't be a thing unless there only goal was to show us how FG improved generation over generation..... If this is the best thing the new cards do that kinda sucks after 2 years. I don't think most people are going to be great we got better frame generation now with 4x the frames vs 2x the frames.... You have to remember the average consumer is going to think 240fps native is the same as 240fps framgen and Nvidia knows that.
Meanwhile RTX 5000 takes it up a notch with Multi Frame Generation
Still can't find info about games that will feature Neural rendering though
Of course people review with FG. I hate to tell you but it’s a fundamental gaming graphics technology now. UE5 is literally built around it and image reconstruction. Sorry if your team is behind, but those are the facts.
Same goes for smaller data types.
Anyhow, Blackwell's FP4 rate is double the value of its FP8 perf, and 4x of the FP16 rate, so you can just figure those out by yourself.
We all know they improved frame generation and for it's fans good for them.It's going to take time unless Developers can do it the old way and new way without any extra work most games will still be developed on PS5 first afterall and then PS6.... I found it to be the most interesting thing.