NVIDIA held its CES 2025 keynote with CEO Jensen Huang last night, and it was a surprisingly eventful one. The company has finally announced its long-awaited GeForce RTX 5000 GPU. First of all, you can expect significant performance improvements. The company didn’t stop there, it also announced Project Digits, a personal AI supercomputer, along with DLSS 4 and more. Here’s a summary of what happened. You can watch the entire event uncut in the YouTube embed below. (Spoiler alert: It’s over 90 minutes long.)
NVIDIA RTX 5000 series GPU
Huang strutted around in a new snakeskin-like leather jacket and showed off his highly anticipated RTX 5090 GPU. With 32GB of GDDR7 RAM and 21,760 CUDA cores, this new flagship can deliver up to 2x relative performance, especially in ray-tracing (RT)-heavy games like Cyberpunk 2077. In fact, that title ran at 234 fps at full capacity. The video demo used RT and compared it to the RTX 4090’s 109 fps. However, the price is not cheap. $1,999.
The company also revealed a $549 RTX 5070 with a much more modest 6,144 CUDA cores and 12GB of DDR7 RAM, along with the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and $999 RTX 5080.
DLSS4
A key part of the RTX 5000 series launch was the introduction of DLSS 4, the latest version of the company’s real-time image upscaling technology. It features a new technology called multi-frame generation, which allows the new GPU to generate up to three additional frames for every frame the GPU would generate with traditional rendering, increasing frame rates up to 8. You can double it. It’s also what NVIDIA calls the “biggest upgrade to AI models” since DLSS 2, improving things like temporal stability and detail while reducing artifacts like ghosting.
project numbers
Finally, NVIDIA launched Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” designed for AI researchers, data scientists, and students. Uses NVIDIA’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip to deliver up to petaflops of performance for testing and running AI models. The company says a single Project Digits unit can run models as large as 200 billion parameters, and multiple machines can be linked to run up to 405 billion parameter models. Project Digits is also relatively inexpensive for its target audience at $3,000.
In addition, the company introduced the NVIDIA Cosmos World Foundation model for robot and AV development, the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion AV platform for self-driving cars, and the AI Foundation model for RTX PCs to “empower the digital human.” It’s all explained in the video above and in NVIDIA’s CES 2025 keynote blog.
NVDA stock seesaw
CES and Huang’s keynote speech come against the backdrop of continued volatility in the company’s stock price. NVIDIA stock (ticker NVDA) soared ahead of Huang’s speech, closing Monday just shy of Apple’s market capitalization peak. But on Tuesday, a reversal occurred, with the stock falling more than 6%. Still, some predict it will be a battle between the two tech giants to see who reaches the $4 trillion market valuation first.
Updated, January 7, 2025, 4:18 PM ET: This article has been updated with new details about Nvidia’s stock price.
