Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

I was taking these sort of improvements for granted. They'll certainly make ai cheaper, but most of the cost is up-front for generative models, and the models don't seem to be getting linearly better.

My guess is mediatek’s margins are much lower so an acquisition would tank Nvidia’s stock price by leading to lower returns. That and/or not wanting the distraction of operating mediatek’s many businesses that aren’t aligned to Nvidia core competence.

There was something eerily epic about his assertions. To suggest that they are all of those companies is pretty wild.

AI is bewitching.

The same industry opposition that killed the ARM acquisition would kill a mediatek acquisition.

It's 32GB, that was leaked well before the event.

> If Apple M4 Ultra gets close to 1.8 TB/s bandwidth of 5090

If past trends hold (Ultra = 2x Max) it'll be around 1.1 TB/s, so closer to the 4090.

For what 5090 is offering with 32GB RAM I thought it is a pretty decent price comparatively to 4090. I thought the whole lineup is really well priced.

edit: 32GB is confirmed here https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/50-serie...

Supposedly, this image of a Inno3D 5090 box leaked, revealing 32GB of VRAM. It seems like the 5090 will be more of a true halo product, given the pricing of the other cards.

https://www.techpowerup.com/330538/first-nvidia-geforce-rtx-...

It depends totally how you define "hot air" in this instance. Later in the keynote there's a mention how the $549 card achieves the 4090-like rendering performance with DLSS, i.e. not with raw graphics, number crunching horsepower.

Personally? It's a no for me dawg, DLSS unfortunately doesn't actually replace the need for the raw GPGPU crunch.

For the average layman and a consumer? Nvidia will be selling those GPU's like hotcakes.

> Then NVIDIA came and announced a 4090-performance GPU for $549

Never trust vendor performance claims (these specifically rely on 3x frame generation), and never assume cards will be available at MSRP.

> Then NVIDIA came and announced a 4090-performance GPU for $549...

That's obviously a marketing hoax. Spray DLSS and other tricks and you can make this kind of claims while the raw power is clearly on the side of the 4090

AMD has strategically decided to abandon the enthusiasts market [0]. Really sad that nvidia's monopoly has got solidified even further. That's one of the reasons I contribute to Apple's MLX instead of CUDA.

0: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/amd-announces-new-ra...

Update: typical HN behavior. someone is downvoting all my comments one by one...

I'm not sure what you mean by that? Jensen seemed quite normal in his presentation. Some of the prerecorded video was a bit iffy - "this is how intelligence is made" totally ignoring natural intelligence. Coked up behaviour is more like Will Smith punching Chris Rock.

I thought the synthetic data generation for self driving was interesting https://youtu.be/k82RwXqZHY8?t=4369 I could have used something like that myself for learning flying.

Not sure about that, but resentfulness, arrogance and hubris are more present than ever on HN.

He tried so much to look funny but it didn't look good on him. And at one point he said 4090 is like taking home an equivalent of a $10,000 PC, and he expected the crowd to clap, but no one, literally no one, clapped. Because everyone knows GeForce prices have been monopoly prices for years and 4090 is intentionally crippled by nvidia drivers to be less capable than it really is (see George Hotz in-depth analysis).