Nvidia CEO takes centre stage with new consumer graphics card for gaming, AI
- Nvidia Unveils the RTX 50 Series: At CES 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced the highly anticipated GeForce RTX 50 Series, powered by the Blackwell architecture.
- Pricing and Availability: The RTX 5090 is priced at $1,999, while other models in the series—RTX 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070—are priced at $999, $749, and $549, respectively.
- Broader Product Line: Beyond GPUs, Nvidia showcased advancements in AI models, robotics systems, and autonomous driving solutions, highlighting its evolution from a gaming graphics card company to a leader in AI technologies.
- Geopolitical Context: Despite adhering to US export restrictions on advanced chips to China, Nvidia continues to face challenges, including a recent Chinese antitrust investigation, underscoring the ongoing US-China tech tensions.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang took centre stage at the CES trade show in Las Vegas on Monday, unveiling the fastest consumer-grade graphics cards for video gaming and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, as the company maintains its lead in the AI era.
Huang received rock-star treatment at the show. Hours before the scheduled start of his keynote, long queues formed at the Michelob Ultra Arena that can seat over 7,500 people. The speech finally began around 6:40pm local time, roughly 20 minutes late.
“Welcome to CES! Are you excited to be in Las Vegas? Do you like my jacket?” the 61-year-old Taiwan-born, US entrepreneur said, dressed in his signature leather look.
Huang unveiled a range of new products, headlined by the much-anticipated GeForce RTX 50 Series. Powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, the flagship RTX 5090 graphics processing unit (GPU) packs in 92 billion transistors and delivers over 3,352 trillion AI operations per second.
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