The speech by Jensen Huang, co-founder and head of Nvidia, lasting over 1.5 hours, inaugurated this year's CES 2025 in Las Vegas. Nvidia is currently the largest AI chip manufacturer in the world and sets the standard for the entire industry.
“It started with perceptual AI – understanding images, words and sounds. Then generative AI appeared – creating text, images and sounds. Now we are entering the era of 'physical AI', AI that can develop, reason, plan and act,” he emphasized Jensen Jensen Huang during his presentation.
The new RTX 50XX graphics cards are here
At CES 2025, Nvidia presented, among others: a new series of graphics cards aimed at the consumer market. Of course, these are the RTX 50XX systems, which are based on the Blackwell architecture. The flagship representative of this series is the GeForce RTX 5090 system, which has 92 billion transistors and is capable of performing 3,352 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS).
As Nvidia emphasizes, the RTX 5090 is to be up to twice as fast as its predecessor (RTX 4090), not only thanks to the Blackwell architecture, but also thanks to the DLSS 4 technology. Also new is the NVIDIA Reflex 2 technique, which will reduce system delays in games up to 75% thanks to a new feature called Frame Warp
Unfortunately, more power will translate into higher energy consumption (in the case of the 5090 model it will be a maximum of 575 watts) and… a higher price. We will pay as much as PLN 10,299 (!) for Nvidia's flagship card in Poland. The prices of the remaining models are:
· GeForce RTX 5080 – PLN 5,199
· GeForce RTX 5070 Ti – PLN 3,899
· GeForce RTX 5070 – PLN 2,849
A supercomputer on your desk? This is Project Digits
At CES, Nvidia also presented a “personal AI super computer” called Project Digits, the heart of which is the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. Project Digits has enough computing power to handle advanced AI models, but at the same time it is compact enough to fit on our desk.
In terms of design, the device is somewhat similar to the Mac mini from Apple, but its performance will be disproportionately higher. The GB10 chip delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, which means it can perform 1 quadrillion AI calculations per second. Nvidia has priced its compact supercomputer at $3,000.
“AI will be mainstream in every industry and every solution. Thanks to Project Digits, our Grace Blackwell Superchip will reach millions of programmers,” emphasized Jensen Huang. “Putting an AI supercomputer on the desk of every data scientist, every AI researcher, as well as every student will give them the opportunity to engage and shape the new era of AI,” he added.