Nvidia has a protracted historical past within the PC gaming house and it is leveraging each inch of that for its briefing at CES this yr, one of many world’s greatest expertise conferences. All of that is presumably to get as many eyes as doable onto the revealing of its subsequent era of graphics playing cards.
Tweeted out on January 1, 5 days earlier than its CES briefing on January 6, Nvidia introduced there can be “5 traditional playing cards up for grabs”, beginning with the GeForce 256, which Nvidia considers to be the primary GPU on this planet.
First launched on October 11, 1999, it was manufactured by TSMC, who nonetheless work with Nvidia to this present day, on a 220 nm CMOS course of.
For context on that determine, the Ada Lovelace structure discovered on the RTX 40 collection line makes use of a TSMC customized 5 nm design. Housed in a stunning black body, sporting the “world’s 1st GPU” declare and Jen-Hsun Huang’s (Nvidia CEO) signature, you may get an opportunity to win the 256 by merely commenting “#GeForceGreats” on the unique tweet.
Following this up is the GeForce 8800 Ultra, which will also be gained by commenting the identical hashtag on the announcement tweet. This is as soon as once more signed and has “the first CUDA GPU” written within the body.
The 8800 Ultra was Nvidia’s first unified shader GPU, which cemented Nvidia as a good selection for these seeking to edit massive quantities of knowledge or work with graphics and designs.
We expect extra of those traditional playing cards to be introduced over the approaching days however the deal with “world’s 1st” could be very telling right here, and means that may very well be a theme of the present itself on January 6. If not this, that would simply be Nvidia bragging about its historical past within the PC gaming world.
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Both giveaways thus far deal with the identical hashtag, which appears to be supposed to construct hype for the present itself. From December thirteenth, Nvidia has been celebrating 25 years of gaming with 25 days of giveaways. These final 5 traditional playing cards are simply the icing on the cake of all these giveaways.
Interestingly, the Nvidia Twitch account has been continually streaming, saying thriller bins each few hours, urging folks to go observe social media accounts, and that is all topped off with a “whole hype to this point” bar, which sits at 235651, at time of writing.
This is all to say that the CES briefing appears supposed to be a reasonably large one, given the months of PR build up social media accounts and linking to assets on the present. We are at present anticipating bulletins or teases of the RTX 50 collection line, just like the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090.
The keynote from Nvidia will begin at 6:30 PM PST on January 6 and you may watch it through YouTube, LinkedIn, X and extra on the day. However, in case you do not fancy watching the total present, the PC Gamer {hardware} group shall be going over all the very best bulletins on the day and the next week.
