Introduction
NVIDIA’s pre-Computex 2024 Keynote focused on AI features, and its success with AI-driven applications and the hardware to power it. You can read more at NVIDIA’s Blog Here. NVIDIA has enjoyed 6 years of AI PC Innovation with 100M RTX AI PCs, and 500 RTX AI Games and Apps. Remember, the GeForce RTX 20 series of GPUs launched in 2018, and provided the world’s first hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing and Deep Learning Tensor Cores to the consumer desktop PC space. Over that time, the library of compatible RTX games and applications has increased a lot in capacity, the adoption has been quick and plentiful for the ecosystem.
NVIDIA makes the distinction that NPUs (10-45 TOPs) are suited for light AI or small models with high power efficiency. Whereas desktop PC GPUs are better suited for Heavy AI and large models with high performance. Then its Datacenter GPUs are built for Cloud-scale AI with very large models and scalable performance.
GeForce RTX AI Laptops
To facilitate the higher workload AI happenings, NVIDIA is announcing that it’s GeForce RTX GPUs are now in new AI Laptops, with more than 200 RTX AI laptop models available from major OEMs. The new ASUS TUF A14/A16, ASUS Zephyrus G16, ASUS ProArt PX13/P16, MSI Stealth A16 AI, are all capable of Copilot+ with RTX chips.
New NVIDIA AI Tools
To facilitate better implementations of AI for Windows Developers NVIDIA has some new handy tools to discuss. NVIDIA is announcing NVIDIA RTX AI Toolkit for AI model customization, optimization, and hybrid deployment to 100M RTX Windows PCs and Workstations. NVIDIA is also announcing NVIDIA AI Inference Manager (AIM) SDK for Streamlined AI Deployment for PC Developers.
NVIDIA ACE and Project G-Assist
NVIDIA is continuing its path to lifelike game characters with NVIDIA ACE with NVIDIA ACE NIMs for RTX AI PCs. There have been newer implementations to show off at Computex this year. NVIDIA is also announcing Project G-Assist enhancing games with apps and AI assistants, such as real-time context-aware game guidance and performance optimization, and system tuning which sounds pretty exciting.
More DLSS Games
More games with DLSS are coming, Star Wars Outlaws gets DLSS 3.5 and Marvel Rivals gets DLSS 3.
RTX Remix and ComfyUI
NVIDIA is also announcing RTX Acceleration for ComfyUI which brings TensorRT acceleration in the top 2 stable diffusion apps. RTX Remix is also being talked about which is now going open source! When you combine RTX Remix with ComfyUI you are able to remaster materials, and really make old games look great. RTX Video also comes to VLC and Davinci Resolve for video super res and HDR. And of course, the new NVIDIA App Beta is now available.
SFF-Ready GeForce Card Guideline
This one is pretty exciting, NVIDIA is announcing SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card Guidelines. NVIDIA has made a new spec for what it considers SFF-Ready GeForce cards. It has laid out dimensions that the cards should fit within and then provided a list of cards that are available right now as SFF-Ready.
You can see on this list there are quite a few video cards from many manufacturers that fit into this category. If you are building a small form factor system, you will want to reference this new list to see if your card is on it, or purchase one that is on the list. NVIDIA also goes on to specify a list of cases that are compatible with SFF-Ready GeForce Cards as well, so this is very nifty to reference for such builds.
Conclusion
Overall, across the board, NVIDIA is embracing this new AI world, and has its hands dipped into a lot of areas in this wide ecosystem, and it’s all powered by their RTX GPUs which have been available now since 2018. The only thing missing from the Computex 2024 event was a mention of its next-generation GPUs, Blackwell, but I suppose we’ll be hearing about that later this year.
Here are the Highlights from NVIDIA’s Computex 2024 Announcements Below for a quick summary:
- Project G-Assist, your AI Assistant for games and apps
- ACE PC NIMs general availability, to accelerate the next wave of digital humans; new generative AI breakthroughs coming to ACE were also announced
- Windows Copilot Runtime with API access to RTX-accelerated SLMs and RAG
- New RTX AI laptops from ASUS and MSI, with advanced AI capabilities and will receive a free update to Copilot+ PC experiences when available
- New DLSS games, Star Wars™ Outlaws with DLSS 3.5 and Marvel Rivals with DLSS 3
- RTX Remix Toolkit open source, alongside powerful new REST API, will make it faster and easier to remaster classic games.
- RTX Video SDK, with Davinci Resolve and Wondershare Filmora integrations
- RTX AI Toolkit, accelerating AI model development and deployment
- Updated NVIDIA app beta, adding 120 FPS AV1 recording and one-click performance tuning
- ComfyUI RTX acceleration, delivering a 60% perf boost in the popular Stable Diffusion UI
- PC Game Pass reward for GeForce gamers
- New G-SYNC Compatible displays, making gaming smoother and more enjoyable