NVIDIA at GDC 2024

March 18–22

Booth P1811 | Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

Join us March 18–22 for the Game Developers Conference (GDC) to discover how the latest generative AI and RTX technologies are accelerating game development. Meet with one of our experts at GDC to learn how we're helping game studios accelerate pipelines with end-to-end enterprise solutions for game development.

NVIDIA’s Live Sessions at GDC

Mon 3/18 Tues 3/19 Wed 3/20 Thur 3/21 Fri 3/22
Unity Developer Summit: Rendering Customization and Performance in Unity 6 (Presented by Unity)
1:20 - 2:20 p.m. PT
Room WH #3022
NVIDIA Lab: Use NVIDIA Nsight Tools to Debug and Profile Ray-Tracing Applications Session 1
10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. PT
Atelier 1, 3rd floor, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown Soma
Gen AI-Powered NPCs: Learnings from Ubisoft's First Experiments
9:00 -10:00 a.m. PT
Room WH #3020
Alan Wake 2: A Deep Dive into Path Tracing Technology
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PT
Room WH #3020
Tools Roundtable Day 3: Build
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PT
Room SH #308
Advanced Graphics Summit: Making Connections: Real-Time, Path-Traced Light Transport in Game Engines
4:10 - 5:10 p.m. PT
Room SH #303
NVIDIA Lab: Use NVIDIA Nsight Tools to Debug and Profile Ray-Tracing Applications Session 2
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. PT
Atelier 1, 3rd floor, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown Soma
NVIDIA Lab: Use NVIDIA Nsight Tools to Debug and Profile Ray-Tracing Applications Session 3
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PT
Atelier 1, 3rd floor, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown Soma
Slang: A Shading Language for the AI-Accelerated Future of Rendering
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT
Room WH #3020
Technical Artist Roundtable Day 3
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PT
Room SH #306
Advanced Graphics Summit: All You Can Ask!
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. PT
Room SH #303
Modernizing Games With NVIDIA RTX Remix and Generative AI
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. PT
Room WH #3020
Real-Time Content Creation With Path-Tracing Visuals in UE5
12:45 - 1:45 p.m. PT
Room WH #3022
Technical Artist Roundtable Day 1
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. PT
Room SH #306
DirectX State of the Union Ft. Work Graphs and Introducing DirectSR (Presented by Microsoft)
12:45 - 1:45 p.m. PT
Room WH #2009
Using AI to Bring Your Game Characters to Life
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PT
Room WH #3020
Tools Roundtable Day 2: Assets
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. PT
Room SH #308
Advances in Ray Tracing Developer Tools
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. PT
Room WH #2000
NVIDIA ACE – Anatomy of a Smart NPC
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. PT
Room WH #3009
NVIDIA Lab: Use NVIDIA Nsight Tools to Debug and Profile Ray-Tracing Applications Session 4
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. PT
Atelier 1, 3rd floor, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown Soma
Technical Artist Roundtable Day 2
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. PT
Room SH #308
RT: Overdrive in Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition - Pushing Path Tracing One Step Further
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. PT
Room WH #3020
Transforming Gameplay With AI NPCs (Presented by Inworld AI, NVIDIA and Oracle)
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. PT
Room WH #2000
Tools Roundtable Day 1: Engineering
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. PT
Room SH #308

NVIDIA News at GDC 2024

NVIDIA Delivers New Generative AI for Digital Humans

Explore how NVIDIA is helping developers reshape user interactions in gaming, healthcare, and more with advanced digital human technologies built on NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), NVIDIA NeMo™, and NVIDIA RTX™ technologies.

RTX Technologies Coming to More of Your Favorite Games

Over 500 RTX games and apps have revolutionized the way we play and create with full ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS and AI-powered technologies. At GDC, we announced that DLSS 3.5 and full ray tracing are coming to Black Myth: Wukong and NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, & more.

Pushing the Boundaries of Game Characters in Covert Protocol

See How NVIDIA and Inworld Built Covert Protocol

Watch how NVIDIA and Inworld AI bring AI characters to life with NVIDIA ACE digital human technologies and the Inworld Engine in the latest technology demo, Covert Protocol.

Visit Our Information Center at Booth P1811

Event Map

See our show floor map and experience how NVIDIA and our ecosystem of partners are integrating AI across game development pipelines.

Enter to Win

Don't miss the chance to win a GeForce RTX™ 4080 SUPER or NVIDIA RTX™ 6000. Visit our information center to enter.

Become an Nsight Tools Pro Through Hands On Learning

Sponsored by Lenovo

Learn to create ray-traced games with NVIDIA experts. Master NVIDIA Nsight Graphics and Systems for optimizing 3D applications with hands-on GPU profiling and debugging in Vulkan and D3D12.

Develop Cutting-Edge, Next-Gen Games

NVIDIA ACE

NVIDIA ACE is a suite of technologies that help developers bring digital humans to life with generative AI. ACE AI microservices are designed to run in the cloud or locally on the PC.

NVIDIA ChatRTX

Personalize a custom chatbot connected to your content using the ChatRTX demo app. Get fast and secure answers, all locally on your RTX-accelerated PC, using RAG and TensorRT-LLM.

Gaming Sessions at GTC 2024

Explore how generative AI and path tracing are transforming the creation of virtual characters and worlds at GTC 2024.

Latest NVIDIA Technology Demos

NVIDIA ACE for Games

Explore how developers can enable intelligent in-game characters powered by Generative AI with NVIDIA ACE for Games. Train large language models to provide responses aligned with a spectrum of attributes.

How Cyberpunk 2077 Achieved Photorealistic Graphics With NVIDIA’s Tools

Real-time path tracing produces ultra-realistic graphics, allowing games to achieve images that were previously only possible with offline rendering. Best of all, path-tracing profiling works out-of-the-box with the suite of NVIDIA Nsight Developer tools.


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Resources for Game Developers

Level Up With NVIDIA

The new Level Up With NVIDIA webinar series offers creators and developers the opportunity to learn more about the NVIDIA RTX™ platform, interact with NVIDIA experts, and ask questions about game integrations.

Free Tools, Training, and Experts

Game developers like you transform virtual worlds every day. The NVIDIA Developer Program gives you access to free tools, training, and our forums of experts to accelerate your development pipeline.

Accelerate your Startup

NVIDIA Inception nurtures cutting-edge technology startups that are revolutionizing industries. The free program offers go-to-market support, expertise, and technology—all tailored to a business’s evolution, no matter what size or funding stage they’re at.

Get Trained With NVIDIA

Want to develop key skills for game development? Develop and master the skills you need in AI, accelerated computing, and the metaverse through the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI).

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