GeForce RTX 50 Series Overview

Jan 7, 2025

Lecture Notes: GeForce RTX 50 Series Blackwell Architecture Presentation

Introduction

  • Announcement of the new GeForce RTX 50 Series with Blackwell architecture.
  • Focus on immense computational power and advancements in AI and graphics.

Key Features of RTX 50 Series

  • Transistors & Performance:
    • 92 billion transistors.
    • 4,000 Tops (trillions of operations per second).
    • 4 petaflops of AI processing power, three times higher than previous Ada generation.
  • Ray Tracing & Shader Processing:
    • 380 ray tracing teraflops.
    • 125 shader teraflops.
    • Dual shader units for floating point and integer operations.
  • Memory:
    • G7 memory from Micron with 1.8 terabytes per second bandwidth, twice the previous generation.
  • AI & Graphics Integration:
    • Integration of AI workloads with computer graphics.
    • Programmable shader capable of processing neural networks.
    • Introduction of neural texture compression and neural material shading.

Product Line-Up

  • RTX 5070: Offers 4090 performance at $549.
  • RTX Family: Ranges from 570 to 590.
    • RTX 590 boasts twice the performance of 490.
  • Availability: Large scale production starting January.

Laptops

  • RTX 5070 Laptop:
    • Priced at $1,299 with 4090 performance.
    • Thin laptops featuring the 5090.

Supercomputing Capabilities

  • Exaflop Performance:
    • 1.4 exaflops of AI floating point performance.
    • 14 terabytes of memory, 1.2 petabytes per second memory bandwidth.
    • 130 trillion transistors, 2592 CPU cores.
  • Advanced Networking:
    • Connectx networking chips and NVlink components.

Software & AI Models

  • Llama Neotron Suite:
    • Open models designed for fast response and wide applications.
    • Ultra models serve as teacher and evaluator models.
  • Nvidia Cosmos:
    • World's first world foundation model trained on 20 million hours of video.
    • Focuses on understanding the physical world.
    • Capabilities in data generation, robotics model seeding, video captioning.

Thor Robotics Computer

  • Introduction of Thor:
    • Next-generation computer for autonomous vehicles and robotics.
    • 20x processing capability of previous Orin model.
    • Universal robotics computer applicable across AMR, humanoid robots.

Future of General Robotics

  • Potential Breakthroughs:
    • Enabling technologies for rapid advancements in general robotics.
    • Emphasis on agentic robots, self-driving cars, and humanoid robots.

Project Digits

  • AI Supercomputer:
    • Runs entire NVIDIA AI stack.
    • Super secret GB 110 chip in production.
    • Collaborative CPU development with MediaTek.
    • Expected availability around May.

These notes summarize the presentation on the GeForce RTX 50 Series and related technological advancements, including AI and robotics applications.