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.
435 Comments on NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog
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I hate using frame generation it's flaws are way too obvious on a monitor for me but if it's massively improved awesome but until native 240fps is the same latency as 240 frame generation with no artifacts benchmarks should only show natively rendered frames.
There goes your nobody argument.I’ve rarely seen a flaw with FG. I guess I’m too busy playing games to try to peep a flickering pixel somewhere.
I'd still argue that data is irrelevant because it's not valid for comparison.
Anyway, meetings in the morning. Good night.
$3k, and there goes away my hopes and dreams.
Honestly it's not a bad price given that it's cheaper than an equivalent Apple product, but it's still too much for what would basically be a toy for me.
if I'm interpreting that correctly, a new drop in DLL will enable the new "Transformer" model giving considerable IQ improvements. Neat they also lowered the memory footprint of FG and made it give a bigger uplift too.
Making up for last generations (2,000) terrble price points.
Splashing another d.l.s.s & some more A.I bullcrap.
Its alsmo exqctly like that one guy said
2000 bad prices
3000 good prices
4000 bad price
5000 good prices
The game for nvidia is faking the supply limiation to drive prices to insanity
another 25% missing. 5090 needs to shrink to N3 and become the 5080 for this to hold true.
So we are stagnant at the shader performance (minor upgrades) and only working on RT cores and more importantly on Tensor cores.
At least they didn't price it at 1500$. So the pricing strategy works, ask for 1200$ for 4080, then lower 5080 to 999$ and suddenly you get praise that the prices are good this time around.
We will see if the prices will really be 999$, FE's probably will go out of stock in 5 minutes and then it's a rodeo for AIB and sellers to price it at whatever they want.
The perf improvement, that Nvidia is showing in their graph, is... meh as well. I am not impressed, especially since they compare it only against the awfull (except the 4090) first batch of the 4000 serie cards and not the much better (but still just OK tbh) SUPER refresh...
I miss the Nvidia of the past, before that whole RTX "revolution". One more year, one more generation that is meh as F.
Don't get me wrong, it will look shitty but to be honest only thing AMD needs to compete with this is their improved FSR4 image scaler and then just combine FSR FG with AFMF.
Then they can claim that 9070XT is 2X faster than 7900XTX.
I'm dissapointed in both presentations, but hey at least Nvidia actually presented some GPUs.