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“Next Gen Is On” with RTX: NVIDIA Opens CES with Launch of GeForce RTX 2060, 40+ Laptop Models

Brian Caulfield — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 06:58:51 GMT

NVIDIA kicked off CES 2019 on Sunday night by outlining sweeping plans to put to work the radical new graphics technology of real-time ray tracing in gaming and content creation in a dizzying array of laptops and desktops. Speaking to a crowd of nearly a thousand attendees, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the GeForce RTX Read article >

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The Next Big Thing, Literally: BFGDs Ready for Pre-Order

Vijay Sharma — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 05:43:51 GMT

Our G-SYNC displays are going big. Really big. No one’s pickier about displays than gamers. But until now, gamers couldn’t get living-room sized displays that offered the high performance and instant response they demand. In February, G-SYNC HDR tech will be available in 65-inch super-sized NVIDIA Big Format Gaming Displays featuring 4K, 144 Hz with Read article >

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In Sync at CES: Announcing G-SYNC Compatible Monitors and BFGD Pre-Orders

Vijay Sharma — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 05:40:31 GMT

We’re displaying for keeps at CES this week in Las Vegas with the expansion of the G-SYNC ecosystem, pre-orders of our new BFGD monitors and the announcement of new G-SYNC displays. These announcements build on our ongoing investment in G-SYNC display technology, which has delivered superior gaming experiences since 2013. The revolutionary monitor technology introduced gamers Read article >

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX Powers Record Number of New Gaming Laptops

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 05:30:00 GMT

CES -- NVIDIA today announced that the world’s top manufacturers are bringing to market a record number of laptops based on its revolutionary Turing GPU architecture — including the fastest, thinnest and lightest systems ever created.

More than 40 new laptop models in 100-plus configurations will be available later this month. They will be powered by NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX GPUs, which fuse the performance of next-generation shaders with real-time ray tracing and AI to blur the line between movies and gaming with cinematic-quality rendering.

“Laptops are the fastest growing gaming platform — and just getting started,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, who introduced the lineup at the start of the annual CES tradeshow. “The world’s top OEMs are using Turing to bring next-generation console performance to thin, sleek laptops that gamers can take anywhere. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide — an entire generation — are growing up gaming. I can’t wait for them to experience this new wave of laptops.”

Turing-based laptops will be available across the GeForce RTX family — from RTX 2080 through RTX 2060 GPUs.

RTX Meets Max-Q
Seventeen of the new models feature Max-Q design, an innovative approach to crafting the world's thinnest, fastest, quietest gaming laptops. Max-Q hits the sweet spot of ultimate GeForce gaming and impossibly sleek design, with laptops thinner than 20 mm, narrow bezels, 144 Hz displays and extraordinary battery life.

Running quieter and cooler, many use NVIDIA Optimus® technology to deliver up to 2x more battery life.

Max-Q design and NVIDIA RTX technology deliver the next generation of thin, high-performance laptops to gamers. With up to 2x the performance of a PlayStation 4 Pro, the laptops can play the latest ray-traced games like Battlefield V at 60 frames per second.

Laptops with the latest GeForce RTX GPUs also are equipped with:

WhisperMode — enables plugged-in laptops with GeForce Experience™ to run much quieter while gaming by pacing frame rates while also configuring graphics settings for optimal power efficiency.
NVIDIA Battery Boost™ — enables laptops with GeForce Experience to have 2x more battery life, so gamers can outlast opponents.
NVIDIA G-SYNC® — enables refresh rates of up to 144 Hz for smooth, tear-free gameplay. (Available on select models.)

Content Creation, on the Go
In addition to providing outstanding gaming performance, GeForce RTX laptops are powerful mobile platforms for the millions of video editors, 3D animators, game broadcasters and other content creators who demand the best performance to do their work faster and better.

Hardware-accelerated ray tracing takes rendering from minutes to seconds, enabling animators to work interactively with their models — with accurate lighting, reflections and shadows. NVIDIA RTX video processing capabilities enable video editors to work with up to 6K RAW video in real time, and let broadcasters create high-quality streams to Twitch — all while on the go.

Bundle with Anthem, Battlefield V
For a limited time, gamers will receive both Battlefield V and Anthem with a qualifying purchase of a GeForce RTX 2080 laptop, or receive either one of the two titles with a qualifying purchase of a GeForce RTX 2070 or RTX 2060 laptop. This bundle promotion is available in most regions around the world.

Availability
GeForce RTX-powered laptops will be available starting Jan. 29 from the world's top OEMs, including Acer, Alienware, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo Legion, MSI, Razer and Samsung. They will also be available from local OEMs and system builders, including Aftershock, CyberPower PC, Hasee, Maingear, Mechrevo, Mouse, Origin PC, PC Specialist, Scan, Schenker, Terrans Force and Thunderobot.

Pricing, configurations and availability will vary among regions and partners.

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GeForce RTX at CES 2019: Best for Today’s Games, Ready for New Generation of Games

Brian Burke — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 05:25:25 GMT

At CES this evening we launched new GPUs for gamers around the world, revealed new GPUs powering a record number of gaming laptops and extended our G-SYNC line of gaming monitors. We’re also showing new games and demos featuring RTX ray tracing and DLSS technology. Blockbusters Battlefield V and Anthem are adding RTX DLSS. Justice and Read article >

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Is Here: Next-Gen Gaming Takes Off

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 05:03:00 GMT

CES -- NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2060, putting revolutionary Turing architecture GPUs within the reach of tens of millions PC gamers worldwide.

The RTX 2060 GPU delivers exceptional performance on modern games, with graphics enhanced by ray tracing and AI capabilities. Priced at $349, RTX 2060 delivers new levels of performance and features previously available only in high-end gaming GPUs.

The RTX 2060 is 60 percent faster on current titles than the prior-generation GTX 1060, NVIDIA’s most popular GPU, and beats the gameplay of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.⁽¹⁾ With Turing’s RT Cores and Tensor Cores, it can run Battlefield V with ray tracing at 60 frames per second.

The RTX 2060 will be available globally starting Jan. 15 from every major OEM, system builder and graphics card partner.

“Next-gen gaming starts today for tens of millions of gamers everywhere,” said NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who unveiled the RTX 2060 at the start of the CES tradeshow. “Desktop gamers are demanding, and the RTX 2060 sets a new standard — an unbeatable price, extraordinary performance and real-time ray tracing that blurs the distinction between movies and games. This is a great moment for gamers and our industry.”

Power of Turing
The RTX 2060 features a major upgrade of the core streaming multiprocessor to more efficiently handle the compute-heavy workloads of modern games. It supports concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations, adaptive shading technology and a new unified memory architecture with twice the cache of its predecessor. Modern games can utilize these features to achieve up to 2x the performance of the GTX 1060 GPU.

The RTX 2060 comes equipped with 6GB of GDDR6 memory and 240 Tensor Cores that can deliver 52 teraflops of deep learning horsepower, which can improve gaming performance through a feature known as Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS).

DLSS leverages a deep neural network to extract multidimensional features of the rendered scene and intelligently combine details from multiple frames to construct a high-quality final image. The result is a clear, crisp image with similar quality as traditional rendering, but with higher performance.

Battlefield V with DLSS Coming Soon
Electronic Arts and DICE will shortly release an update to Battlefield V that will incorporate DLSS support, as well as additional optimizations for real-time ray tracing. Pairing DLSS with ray tracing allows gamers to get both amazing performance and ray-traced image quality.

Testing with early builds shows that RTX performance with DLSS and ray tracing simultaneously enabled can provide comparable frame rates to playing with ray tracing disabled.

Powerful Capture and Sharing Tools with GeForce Experience
The RTX 2060 comes with GeForce Experience™, an application that makes PC gaming more accessible and provides unique, easy-to-use in-game features such as:

NVIDIA Highlights — which automatically captures the best gaming moments. Recently released games with Highlights support include: Deuterium Wars, Dirty Bomb, Dying Light: Bad Blood, Europa (Ring of Elysium), Extopia, GRIP, Hitman 2, Insurgency Sandstorm, Justice, Knives Out PC Plus, Lost Ark, Shadow of Tomb Raider, Switchblade and X-Morph: Defense.
NVIDIA Ansel — which lets gamers take stunning in-game photos. Recently released titles with Ansel support include: Deep Rock Galactic, GRIP, Hitman 2, Insurgency Sandstorm, Ride 3 and Shadow of Tomb Raider. Gamers can share their favorite photos and participate in monthly photo contests on Shot with GeForce.
NVIDIA Freestyle — which lets gamers customize their games’ appearance with post-processing technology. The latest filters can convert gameplay or photos into an oil painting or a watercolor, or deliver an appearance that’s right out of a movie or a retro 1980’s look.

Bundle with Anthem, Battlefield V
For a limited time, gamers buying a qualifying GeForce RTX 2060, or a new desktop PC equipped with the RTX 2060, can choose to receive Anthem or Battlefield V. This bundle promotion is available in most regions around the world.

Availability and Pricing
The RTX 2060 will be available beginning Jan. 15 in systems built by Acer, Alienware, Dell, HP and Lenovo, as well as by leading system builders worldwide.

Custom boards, including stock-clocked and factory-overclocked models, will also available starting Jan. 15 from top add-in card providers, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac.

A stock-clocked RTX 2060 Founders Edition board — designed and built by NVIDIA — will also be available on that date at www.nvidia.com.

The NVIDIA Flickr page hosts the entire lineup of GeForce product photos.

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Live: NVIDIA at CES 2019

Bob Sherbin — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 18:41:26 GMT

It’s big. It’s green. It’s grand. No wonder we’re drawn to it. We’re kicking off a frenzied week at the International CES tradeshow in Las Vegas tonight with a press conference tonight at 8 pm at the MGM Grand on the Vegas strip. We’re expecting a packed house. So stay tuned to our live video Read article >

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How AI Is Helping Address the Rohingya Refugee Healthcare Crisis

Isha Salian — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:52:39 GMT

More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar in the past year, finding temporary shelter across the border in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district. Their overcrowded, unhygienic living conditions make them especially vulnerable to infections and other diseases — a need the United Nations has called “immense,” with healthcare services “grossly under-funded.” Help in addressing these Read article >

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Word Up: AI Writes New Chapter for Language Buffs

Scott Martin — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:00:50 GMT

Who knew AI would become such a wordsmith. But not long ago, Spence Green and John DeNero were perplexed that the latest and greatest natural language processing research wasn’t yet in use by professional translators. The Stanford grads set out to change that. In 2015, they co-founded Lilt, an AI software platform for translation and Read article >

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Five Short Vids That Tell the Tale of What’s Next for AI

Brian Caulfield — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:00:52 GMT

Show, don’t tell. There’s no better way to tell a story as extraordinary as the effect AI has had on the world around us. And our “I Am AI,” docuseries does just that, one extraordinary story at a time. These tales — set everywhere from lush California fields cultivated by an adept new generation of Read article >

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How Deep Learning Is Aiding Preservation of Seneca and Other Endangered Languages

Tony Kontzer — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:00:49 GMT

Linguists estimate that at least half of the world’s estimated 7,000 spoken languages will become extinct by the century’s end, due to forces ranging from globalization to cultural assimilation. Part of the challenge of documenting and revitalizing endangered languages is a lack of texts and speech recordings to work with. Seneca, a language of one Read article >

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The Five Weirdest Episodes of the AI Podcast in 2018

Brian Caulfield — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 14:00:57 GMT

Think of it as a chance to rest your eyes up ahead of the New Year’s Day college football frenzy in front of that new big screen TV. Simple story: our podcast does best when, and where, other media don’t — while listeners are trapped in a commute and catching up on the latest episode Read article >

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Friendly Work Rivalry Spurs Spectacular Holiday Light Shows in Austin

Samantha Zee — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:42:00 GMT

They say everything is bigger in Texas. And it’s especially true when it comes to spectacular holiday light shows, thanks to a decade-long rivalry between two Austin-based NVIDIA engineers. John Storms and Lee Franzen festoon their respective homes with elaborate decorations played out in thousands of lights — Santa in a sleigh pulled by galloping Read article >

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Flying High Again: Airplane Turnarounds Take a Spin with AI

Scott Martin — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:00:20 GMT

Airlines generally aren’t soaring with fans, but AI could shorten delays to get people flying high again. Zurich-based Assaia is developing AI that aims to compress the time between landing and liftoff. The self-funded startup, founded earlier this year, is using image recognition algorithms sped by NVIDIA GPUs to process video feeds and deliver insights Read article >

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Uncommon Threads: Rare NVIDIA T-Shirts Gain Cult Following

Brian Caulfield — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:00:29 GMT

Don’t meet your heroes, they say, you might be disappointed. Use your heroes to meet other people, however, and you may just be delighted. Rory Loeb, an NVIDIA creative director who leads the company’s branding efforts, found that out last year during a hike through the Berkeley hills overlooking the sparkling San Francisco Bay. “A Read article >

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It’s On: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Hold 2019 CES Press Event

Brian Caulfield — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:08:13 GMT

First come, first served. We’re kicking off CES early. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will unveil our latest on Sunday, Jan. 6, at the MGM Conference Center in Las Vegas at 8 pm. This year, our press event will take place in the Grand Ballroom, level 1, located in the back of the landmark Read article >

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Foxconn's FIT Unit Dials In AI for Electronics Production

Jerry Chen — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:04:00 GMT

Foxconn Interconnect Technology is poised to deliver some yuletide cheer when it comes to holiday gifts. That’s because FIT is rolling out AI-powered inspection systems in its factory lines. FIT has begun deploying AI for automated high-precision inspection of components and tools in its manufacturing operations. The move could bolster production throughput and improve the Read article >

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Smooth Operator: GeForce NOW Recommended Routers Optimize Cloud Gaming Experience

Andrew Fear — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:00:57 GMT

Great moments are born from great opportunity. And when you’re closing in on that elusive Victory Royale, nothing is worse than when your baby brother starts streaming a movie that brings your cloud gaming to a screeching halt. That’s where GeForce NOW recommended routers come in. The GeForce NOW game-streaming service has transformed where and Read article >

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The Bright Continent: ‘Just Two Laptops and a Lot of Enthusiasm’ — Tales from Africa’s AI Ecosystem

Isha Salian — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:05:00 GMT

Ignoring his friends’ advice, Karim Beguir left his career five years ago in London as a financial engineer and returned home to Tunisia to found an AI startup. And he hasn’t looked back since. At NeurIPS, the world’s top AI research conference, Beguir spoke earlier this month to 300 attendees at the Black in AI Read article >

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How NVIDIA Virtual GPU Technology Makes Going to the Dentist (and Dental School) Quick and Painless

Anne Hecht — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:00:17 GMT

Dental schools, especially ones that provide services to the public, spend a lot of effort easing pain. Managing the IT infrastructure for their hundreds of students, instructors and administrators should be equally painless. Digital technology is fast becoming a key part of diagnosis and treatment planning in dental practices. Recent advances in 3D scanning, modeling Read article >

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