Nvidia's CES 2025 Keynote: Unveiling New Tech for Gamers and Creators
Tuesday, Jan 7, 2025 5:41 am ET
2min read Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at CES 2025 to unveil a suite of new technologies designed to revolutionize gaming and creative industries. The keynote, held at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas, showcased Nvidia's latest advancements in AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and gaming chips. Huang highlighted the incredible pace of AI development, moving from perception AI to generative AI, and now entering the era of physical AI.
One of the most anticipated announcements was the introduction of the Nvidia Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. These new GPUs, powered by the Blackwell architecture, offer stunning visual realism and unprecedented performance boosts. The RTX 5090, the most powerful GeForce RTX GPU to date, boasts 92 billion transistors and delivers 3,352 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS). Huang described the GPU as "just a beast," highlighting its advanced AI capabilities and improved mechanical design with two cooling fans.
The new GPUs also introduce several innovative technologies, such as DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, which can boost performance by up to 8x. Nvidia Reflex 2 reduces PC latency by up to 75%, ensuring a smoother gaming experience. Additionally, RTX Neural Shaders, RTX Neural Faces, and RTX Hair use generative AI to enhance real-time gameplay, textures, and lighting, while RTX Mega Geometry increases the number of ray-traced triangles by up to 100x, providing more detailed and immersive graphics.
Huang also announced the Nvidia Cosmos platform, a game-changer for robotics and industrial AI. Cosmos integrates generative models, tokenizers, and a video processing pipeline to power physical AI systems like autonomous vehicles and robots. This platform enables developers to simulate every possible future and select optimal actions, bringing the power of foresight and multiverse simulation to AI models. Huang likened this moment to the transformative impact of large language models on generative AI, stating, "The ChatGPT moment for general robotics is just around the corner."
In addition to these groundbreaking announcements, Nvidia introduced AI foundation models for RTX PCs, featuring Nvidia NIM microservices and AI Blueprints for crafting digital humans, podcasts, images, and videos. The new Nvidia Project DIGITS brings the power of Nvidia Grace Blackwell to developer desktops in a compact package, enabling AI developers to engage and shape the age of AI.
Nvidia also announced a partnership with Toyota for safe next-gen vehicle development using the Nvidia DRIVE AGX in-vehicle computer running Nvidia DriveOS. This collaboration will accelerate the adoption of AI and autonomous technologies in the automotive industry, enhancing vehicle safety and performance.
In conclusion, Nvidia's CES 2025 keynote showcased the company's commitment to pushing the boundaries of AI, gaming, and creative industries. The new technologies and partnerships unveiled by Huang have the potential to revolutionize these sectors, opening up new opportunities for innovation and growth. As AI continues to advance at an incredible pace, Nvidia remains at the forefront of this transformation, enabling breakthroughs across industries and shaping the future of computing.
