NVIDIA held its CES 2025 keynote final evening with CEO Jensen Huang and it was surprisingly eventful. The corporate lastly unveiled its a lot awaited GeForce RTX 5000 GPUs that promise a substantial efficiency uplift, to start out with. The corporate did not cease there, additionally saying Mission Digits, a private AI supercomputer, together with DLSS 4 and extra. Here is a wrap-up of what occurred — and you’ll watch the entire occasion uncut, by way of the YouTube embed under. (Spoiler alert: It is greater than 90 minutes lengthy.)
NVIDIA RTX 5000-series GPUs
Huang strode out in a brand new snakeskin-like leather-based jacket and revealed the much-anticipated RTX 5090 GPU. With 32GB of GDDR7 RAM and a formidable 21,760 CUDA cores, the brand new flagship can ship as much as twice as a lot relative efficiency, notably for ray-tracing (RT) intensive video games like Cyberpunk 2077. In truth that specific title ran at 234 fps with full RT on in a video demo, in comparison with 109 fps on the RTX 4090. It isn’t low-cost, although, priced at $1,999.
The corporate additionally revealed the $549 RTX 5070 with a much more modest 6,144 CUDA cores and 12GB of DDR7 RAM, together with the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and $999 RTX 5080.
DLSS 4
A key a part of the RTX 5000-series launch was the introduction of DLSS 4, the most recent model of the corporate’s real-time picture upscaling expertise. It incorporates a new expertise referred to as Multi Body Era that enables the brand new GPUs to generate as much as three further frames for each one body the GPU produces by way of conventional rendering — serving to multiply body charges by as much as eight instances. It additionally represents what NVIDIA calls the “greatest improve to its AI fashions” since DLSS 2, enhancing issues like temporal stability and element, whereas lowering artifacts like ghosting.
Mission Digits
Lastly, NVIDIA launched Project Digits, a “private AI supercomputer” designed for AI researchers, knowledge scientists and college students. It makes use of NVIDIA’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip, offering as much as a petaflop of efficiency for testing and working AI fashions. The corporate says a single Mission Digits unit can run fashions 200 billion parameters in dimension, or a number of machines might be linked collectively to run as much as 405 billion parameter fashions. And for its supposed viewers, Mission Digits is comparatively low-cost at $3,000.
On high of all that, the corporate launched NVIDIA Cosmos world basis fashions for robotic and AV growth, the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion AV platform for autonomous automobiles and AI Basis fashions for RTX PCs “that supercharge digital people.” It is all defined within the video above and NVIDIA’s CES 2025 keynote blog.
NVDA inventory value seesaw
CES — and Huang’s keynote — are occurring in opposition to the backdrop of continued volatility within the firm’s inventory value. NVIDIA shares (ticker NVDA) spiked forward of Huang’s handle, closing on Monday simply shy of Apple’s market cap pinnacle. However Tuesday noticed a reversal, with the inventory down more than 6 percent. Nonetheless, some are betting it is a toss up between the 2 tech giants as to which is able to hit the $4 trillion market valuation first.
Replace, January 7 2025, 4:18PM ET: This story has been up to date with new particulars on Nvidia’s inventory value.
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