New cloud services to support AI workflows and the launch of a new generation of GeForce RTX GPUs featured today in NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's GTC keynote, which was packed with new systems, silicon, and software.Computing is advancing at incredible speeds, the engine propelling this rocket is accelerated computing, and its fuel is AI, Huang said during a virtual presentation as he kicked off NVIDIA GTC.
Again and again, Huang connected new technologies to new products to new opportunities - from harnessing AI to delight gamers with never-before-seen graphics to building virtual proving grounds where the world's biggest companies can refine their products.
Driving the deluge of new ideas, new products and new applications: a singular vision of accelerated computing unlocking advances in AI, which, in turn will touch industries around the world.
Gamers and creators will get the first GPUs based on the new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture.
Enterprises will get powerful new tools for high-performance computing applications with systems based on the Grace CPU and Grace Hopper Superchip. Those building the 3D internet will get new OVX servers powered by Ada Lovelace L40 data center GPUs. Researchers and computer scientists get new large language model capabilities with NVIDIA LLMs NeMo Service. And the auto industry gets Thor, a new brain with an astonishing 2,000 teraflops of performance.
Huang highlighted how NVIDIA's technologies are being put to work by a sweep of major partners and customers across a breadth of industries.
To speed adoption, he announced Deloitte, the world's largest professional services firm, is bringing new services built on NVIDIA AI and NVIDIA Omniverse to the world's enterprises.
And he shared customer stories from telecoms giant Charter, as well as General Motors in the automotive industry, the German railway system's Deutsche Bahn in transportation, The Broad Institute in medical research, and Lowe's in retail.
NVIDIA GTC, which kicked off this week, has become one of the world's most important AI gatherings, with 200+ speakers from companies such as Boeing, Deutsche Bank, Lowe's, Polestar, Johnson & Johnson, Kroger, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens AG, T-Mobile and US Bank. More than 200,000 people have registered for the conference.
A Quantum Leap': GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs First out of the blocks at the keynote was the launch of next-generation GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs powered by Ada, which Huang called a quantum leap that paves the way for creators of fully simulated worlds.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang launched the next-generation GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs. Huang gave his audience a taste of what that makes possible by offering up a look at Racer RTX, a fully interactive simulation that's entirely ray traced, with all the action physically modeled.
Ada's advancements include a new Streaming Multiprocessor, a new RT Core with twice the ray-triangle intersection throughput, and a new Tensor Core with the Hopper FP8 Transformer Engine and 1.4 petaflops of Tensor processor power.
Ada also introduces the latest version of NVIDIA DLSS technology, DLSS 3, which uses AI to generate new frames by comparing new frames with prior frames to understand how a scene is changing. The result: boosting game performance by up to 4x over brute force rendering.
DLSS 3 has received support from many of the world's leading game developers, with more than 35 games and applications announcing support. DLSS 3 is one of our greatest neural rendering inventions, Huang said.
Together, Huang said, these innovations help deliver 4x more processing throughput with the new GeForce RTX 4090 versus its forerunner, the RTX 3090 Ti. The new heavyweight champ starts at $1,599 and will be available Oct. 12.
Additionally, the new GeForce RTX 4080 is launching in November with two configurations.
The GeForce RTX 4080 16GB, priced at $1,199, has 9,728 CUDA cores and 16GB of high-speed Micron GDDR6X memory. With DLSS 3, it's twice as fast in today's games as the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, and more powerful than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at lower power.
The GeForce RTX 4080 12GB has 7,680 CUDA cores and 12GB of Micron GDDR6X memory, and with DLSS 3 is faster than the RTX 3090 Ti, the previous-generation flagship GPU. It's priced at $899.
Huang also announced that NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios used Omniverse to reimagine Portal, one of the most celebrated games in history. With NVIDIA RTX Remix, an AI-assisted toolset, users can mod their favorite games, enabling them to up-res textures and assets, and give materials physically accurate properties.
NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios used Omniverse to reimagine Portal, one of the most celebrated games in history. Powering AI Advances, H100 GPU in Full Production Once more tying systems and software to broad technology trends, Huang explained that large language models, or LLMs, and recommender systems are the two most important AI models today.
Recommenders run the digital economy, powering everything from e-commerce to entertainment to advertising, he said. They're the engines behind social media, digital advertising, e-commerce and search.
And large language models based on the Transformer deep learning model first introduced in 2017 are now among the most vibrant areas for research in AI, and able to learn to understand human language without supervision or labeled datasets.
A single pre-trained model can perform multiple tasks, like question answering, document summarization, text generation, translation and even software programming, Huang said.
Delivering the computing muscle needed to power these enormous models, Huang said the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU, with Hopper's next-generation Transformer Engine, is in full production, with systems shipping in the coming weeks
