DF Direct Special: Inside Nvidia RTX 50-Series: Tech Deep Dive, AI, Features, Specs + More

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The embargo has lifted on the Editor's Day material Nvidia shared with the press during CES 2025. In this DF Direct Special, Oliver and Alex share their thoughts on the architectural improvements to the RTX 50-series cards, the laptops, the new AI features, DLSS 4, price and projected performance.

0:00:00 Introduction

0:01:08 Blackwell architecture: Blackwell SM design

0:03:39 Updated Tensor Core and RT Core

0:09:37 AI Management Processor and Max Q power management

0:15:13 Display Engine and video encode/decode

0:18:32 Hardware specs: RTX 5080 and 5090

0:29:16 RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti

0:34:23 RTX 50 Series laptops

0:40:14 RTX Software: Neural Shaders

0:44:24 SER 2.0

0:47:06 RTX Mega Geometry

0:50:15 RTX Hair

0:53:13 Neural Radiance Cache

0:55:58 RTX Skin

0:58:01 DLSS 4: Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation

1:06:18 Generative AI demos

1:10:03 Wrap up discussion: RTX 50 series price and performance

1:17:36 Nvidia’s software package and features

1:22:38 How should we review graphics hardware?

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