Introduction
CES 2024 is underway, and we are on the ground floor finding you all the latest, hottest news updates for launches. Today, NVIDIA is making many announcements, with AI at the forefront this year, you will see a lot of new software developments from NVIDIA in this area.
In addition, NVIDIA has some new GPU hardware launches to talk about as well, as it refreshes its GeForce RTX 40 series lineup with some new GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series GPUs and a slight change to the product stack in the midrange to upper-tier range of GPUs. Before we dive into all of that, however, let’s take a look at some technologies that NVIDIA will be focusing on at CES, and throughout 2024.
NVIDIA Ace
Let’s start where it all began, way back in 2006 when things like pixel engines, and compute became unified into one CUDA core inside NVIDIA GPUs with the GeForce 8800 GTX. This pushed forward demanding games at the time and provided very fast raster performance in gaming. It was a simpler time.
Then evolved deep learning technologies in 2012, which would be the catalyst for neural rendering using Tensor Cores in 2018. This evolved into technologies like DLSS, and other features. Just recently, in 2023 NVIDIA introduced DLSS 3.5 with the ability to denoise ray tracing using deep learning models, greatly improving image quality. Now we are starting to see generative AI on the PC using these pieces of hardware together.
In 2024 NVIDIA foresees AI technologies evolving, and becoming a hybrid of features. One of these new features NVIDIA is called NVIDIA ACE, which is hybrid AI NPCs. This is what gamers have been waiting for, the day that the AI in games can actually become smarter. The demo NVIDIA showed is actually quite stunning. Imagine in a game, like Cyberpunk, you talk into a microphone and are able to ask NPCs questions and actually have them respond to your questions, or your actions that you dictate, in real-time.
Whatever you are imagining, now multiply your imagination. This is actually pretty freaking amazing if I do say so myself. The inner workings are quite complex, but using the Convai Character API pipeline, large language models are used for processing, and this is an Unreal Engine Plugin. This uses a bunch of different routes of processing, but the potential is pretty amazing. While we saw the demo in real-time, it was just one custom-made scenario, having this work in a real game, and remaining performant, we will see.
NVIDIA RTX
NVIDIA’s RTX gaming support has been growing by leaps and bounds. There are now over 500 titles with some kind of RTX technology implemented. NVIDIA is announcing even more titles supporting RTX, such as Horizon Forbidden West with DLSS 3, PAX DEI with DLSS 3, Diablo IV with RT, and DLSS 3. Even some RTX Remix games like Half-Life 2 RTX, which is pretty exciting.
There are also more opportunities with GeForce Now and it is now in 110 countries and more coming online. Speaking of RTX Remix, RTX Remix Open Beta is arriving on January 22nd! It can help you create and re-master materials in older games easily with RTX and AI. Speaking of generative AI ISTOCK is now powered by NVIDIA Picasso for AI-driven photo generation.
Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting
This is a very cool new feature, NVIDIA is announcing a new broadcasting ability that allows your GeForce GPU to encode up to 5 concurrent streams output to different resolutions and framerates for devices. As it is currently, when you stream out to Twitch you have one resolution and framerate output, but that may not work optimally for every device that a person is using. The quality will be vastly different, and each device will not optimally be getting the best experience.
Using OBS and GeForce GPUs you will be able to stream out at 5 different streams, resolutions, and framerate, to more optimally target users having different format devices. This does seem to be strictly with Twitch. New GeForce RTX 40 Series laptops are coming as well, several popular and well-known brands will be offering RTX 40 Series mobile GPUs inside.
GSYNC News
Lastly, in monitor news, NVIDIA G-SYNC is continuing to improve, and a new feature called G-SYNC Pulsar is coming to the ASUS ROG Swift PG27 series in 2024.