the highlight of the NVIDIA keynote for me was when CEO Jensen Hong quipped that
if you bought an RTX 490 that was probably the best investment you could
make I mean just consider all the entertainment happiness that it could
give you but uh one small thing Mr pong
when NVIDIA launched the RTX 490 your
stock price was about $150 so if someone
had bought that instead of a 4090 as their investment well hey good news
because they should be able to comfortably afford a 5090 or 10 as for
everybody else well unfortunately envidia doesn't take happiness so you're
going to be trading a truly princely sum for the privilege of experiencing their
latest and greatest but affordability
aside this was a heck of an event NVIDIA kicked it off with the most beautiful
real-time rendered demo that I have ever seen and Then followed it up with a slw
of new RTX Blackwell 50 Series gpus with
brand new technologies like dlss 4.0 dlss Transformer neural faces and some
of the gpus even have prices that taken at face value might actually be kind of
exciting Jensen claimed on stage that the
5070 will offer 490 levels of
performance at $549 then immediately followed that up
with a huge red flag saying that this feat would be impossible without AI so I
was all like sick woo and then I was all like see well no sooner did I say that
than some Burly guys in green showed up and said all right you cynical Tech
tipping son of a we're going to show it to you right now but you got to
do the thing the thing I said yeah the
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today we'll get to some of the AI and data center stuff from the keynote but
first I want to talk GeForce and right
now we are behind the scenes getting the first ever Hands-On with the RTX 590
well we aren't yet now we are they
didn't tell me I could touch it but they can't stop me they way over there before
we go deeper there are a couple of things that stood out immediately from
their Sizzle video for this thing I mean yeah there's the incredibly compact PCB
with the state-of-the-art power delivery that enables a sick dual fan dual slot
cooler with pass through for both of the fans that's right both of these fans are
blowing right through the cart but
this thank you no more need for fire
prone right angle adapters to clean up your cable men management an angled
power connector okay okay lonus it has a nice cable but what about the specs oh
I've got specs let me put it this way if you have a 4090 right now the 90 is the
GPU that she tells you not to worry about in raw numbers here's what that
looks like this is going to be one heck
of an upgrade I can't wait to see it in
action so why am I waiting let's do it
here relegated to the floor like a common chicken is the previous King the
RTX 490 why don't we start there NVIDIA
can't let me show you guys much prior to the performance embargo in a couple of
weeks we get one game only one game and
we can't change the settings but I can't think of anything I'd want to change
here absolutely everything is cranked
and to their credit they did load up frame view so I won't be purely relying
on feel to evaluate the difference okay so let's play on the 49
yep that's a pretty powerful GPU
still and it's even more powerful than you probably realize before we move over
to the 5090 this build of cyberpunk has some new goodness baked into it
including NVIDIA's new Transformer model and the lss4 frame gen so the results
we're getting even on the 4090 here are not going to be comparable to your
system at home this guy is performing a little better thanks to some of these
changes it's nice that it's getting the extra help because this is not close
even without looking at the numbers which are
double this is wickedly smooth I still
remember I think it was on a ShortCircuit or something we were looking at a system from um I want to say main gear
it was my first time playing cyberpunk on the 4090 because I hosted the review
and everything but I never actually got to game on it and I was like oh my god
um yeah this a lot faster and it's like
where are the polygons you know where have my polyes
gone sure the thing is priced at
$2,000 a 25% increase and is rated at
575 Watts but for the first time in what
feels like forever at least we're getting more for the money this feels
like a truly Halo tier product the 512-bit memory bus 5,000 more Cuda cor
and noticeably better performance like I I can't believe that this is cyberpunk
running at 4K with Ray tracing I can't
believe it because it isn't frame gen
and AI assisted Ray tracing are doing a lot of heavy lifting here Jensen gave us
a bit of insight into this telling us that out of the about 33 million pixels
in his demo only 2 million of them were calculated with the rest extrapolated
using AI but okay I mean it doesn't
matter as long as it looks good right so how good does it look well I'm supposed
to be just showing this off what I've actually been doing is looking around
for a couple of interesting examples of how dlss 4 doesn't handle everything
perfectly see the way this text kind of jitters and blurs if I move around it's
not as clear as the rest of the frame see it's okay if I do it's okay if I
strafe and I've noticed some instances of particularly bright or high contrast
objects having little ghosts on them
with that said I know what I'm looking for other reviewers are going to know
what they're looking for if I were to put one of my siblings in front of
this looks pretty good and NVIDIA was
quick to point out that this is both running at lower latency and with fewer
artifacts than dlss 3.5 enough about the
5090 that let's face it most people aren't going to buy let's talk about the
rest of the family the RTX 570 comparison to the 490 should be taken
with a grain of salt I mean obviously that's going to be with dlss version 4
obviously that's going to be using their new MFG or multi-frame generation at 4X
that feature is limited to 50 Series cards and is powered by Ai and obviously
the situation might change depending on the resolution you're running I mean 4K
needs a fair bit of vram so can a few
100 more Cuda cor net such a wild performance boost especially with so
much less vrm it's a bold claim but with
this mix of next gen Cuda tensor and RT cores along with GDDR 7 it could very
well achieve it at least in some titles and if it looks anywhere near as good as
this does while costing less than half of what the 490 did at
launch well I certainly wish that it had
16 gigs of RAM but even without it they are going to sell a lot of these
not to me you might say I want 16 gigs
of vram well then you are going to need
to take another step up to the 570 TI or
another another step to the RTX 580 and
about these if prices had stayed the same I'd probably be pretty pissed off
right now but the 270 class cards they showed today are $50 less than last gen
and I don't know if that's because of competition but hey progress and it
actually gets better the RTX 580 with all the other bells and whistles that
we've mentioned so far and sporting an additional thousand Cuda cor compared to
its predecessor is set at just $9.99 I say just I know $1,000 is still
really expensive but that is down $200 from the RTX 480 or about 16% it's
got nextg everything a thousand more caor more than double the AI tops and
more memory bandwidth meaning it should deliver legitimately Flagship class
performance at that price even if they're does exist an even higher end
card for the Mega Ballers out there right alongside their new desktop gpus
NVIDIA announced 50 Series for laptops as well they start as low as $12.99 with
the RTX 5070 and they are claiming 4090
performance using half of the power and then the lineup goes all the way up to
an RTX 590 at
$28.99 by the way if you want to see our quick first initial reactions to msi's
50 Series cards when we under embargo
and to watch us prank Colton why don't you check out our behind the scenes video over at lg. g/f Floatplane but
wait there's more Jensen brought a wafer prop onto the stage to illustrate the
incredible technology that's built into their mv72 AI racks he described it as
equal to 20 cars not 100% sure if he
meant in terms of complexity with the 600,000 parts or
Price either way each one draws 120,000
Watts contains 130 trillion transistors and has 1.4 exop flops
fp4 but do what with it well I'm not
sure yet but it's exciting and he wasn't done another big announcement is cosmos
A World Foundation model that's designed and created to understand the physical
world there are three levels of models and they're all openly licensed and
available on GitHub Nano super and Ultra
they're saying this is kind of the chat GPT moment for robots to help them
interact with the real real world which is super cool and also kind of scary
especially when they brought the army of robots onto the stage that was cool
anyway the point is you should be able to give a robot a prompt and then just
watch it do the thing in the virtual world so that it can train itself
virtually they did it the Matrix but
it's the humans bamboozling the robots dodged a bullet there anyway a
big part of the reason for this is that when you're training something like a car you can just do it in the real world
we're driving around with cameras all the time we've got lots of data but when
it comes to humanoid robots it's a lot more challenging because they aren't
just running around doing stuff cuz if they were it'd be extremely dangerous so
the idea with Cosmos is to take the wear and tear out of the equation which will
hopefully mean that costs can go way down in robotics development on a
physical level just exactly what this is going to mean in the long term for
everyone including potentially a lot of warehouse workers that aren't going to
need to move things around anymore well I guess we'll see but wait
there's even more NVIDIA has announced you guessed it a ton of Partnerships
around Robotics and Machine Vision promising to take the training that's happening in Cosmos and apply that to
the real world that was coupled with their new Thor AV computer a Blackwell
based robotics processor that also has their Grace arm CPU cores on it that can
handle a ton of visual data at once like cameras radar and lidar they're boasting
20 times the processing power of their previous generation which is absolutely
wild and last but not least they included a couple Illusions to the
multi-trillion dollar industries that they're going to be addressing with all
of this technology so will will NVIDIA stock price or even higher thanks to our
new robot overlords again I'm not sure because as
NVIDIA carefully noted all of these are forward-looking statements and uh can't
be staken as pure fact finally last but
not least they surprised everyone including Nintendo by announcing the
switch too I'm kidding I'm kidding I know that didn't happen um anyway that's
it the nearly 2hour keynote ended and I had just enough time after trying the
RTX 590 to give you this segue to our
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