Nvidia’s RTX 50 Series Brings Movie-Like Graphics to Gaming — Jensen Huang Says ‘Impossible Without AI’

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a suite of new gaming chips that use artificial intelligence to deliver movie-like graphics in video games.
• The new chips are powered with Nvidia’s Blackwell AI technology.
• Huang also announced updates to Nvidia’s foray into robotics and autonomous driving.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a series of gaming chips that utilize Blackwell artificial intelligence to bring movie-like graphics to video games.

Announced during Huang’s keynote speech at the CES 2025 conference, the CEO said the specs and graphics were “impossible without AI.”

New Era of Gaming

Huang demonstrated highly detailed gameplay rendered in real-time with the chips, offering an impressive display of textures, reflections, and quality.

Huang said the RTX 50 series is fitted with Nvidia’s latest AI technology, which allows for ray-tracing, a computing simulation of realistic light, on every single pixel.

“It would have been impossible without AI,” Huang told the keynote.

Huang explained that the AI fitted into the RTX series can predict pixels that a video game developer did not render, as well as three extra frames in front of the gamer.

“It can predict the future,” Huang said.

The new gaming chips are priced between $549 and $1,999, with the top models touted as more than three times more powerful than Nvidia’s high-selling predecessor.

The lowest model, priced at $549, is comparable to the company’s RTX 4090, which originally sold for $1,600.

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Predicts Robotic Future

Nvidia also used the conference to announce its new Cosmos platform, a service for developing physical AI systems such as self-driving vehicles and robots.

Cosmos is intended to aid companies that need to develop software for things like robots by simulating the conditions of the real world.

For example, self-driving car companies can use the platform to simulate putting their car on a stormy, snow-covered road without actually having to deploy it in real life.

The world’s second-largest company also provided more information on its Isaac GROOT Blueprint software, which allows developers to teach humanoid robots how to move through Apple’s Vision Pro. 

Nvidia also announced that Aurora, Continental, and Toyota were set to use the company’s autonomous technology to power its self-driving systems.

Huang said he predicts that the autonomous vehicle market will “likely be the first multi-trillion-dollar robotics industry.”

Blackwell Supply Constraints

Nvidia’s Blackwell chips have faced many manufacturing challenges that have slowed their rollout.

In October, Huang admitted to Reuters  that a design flaw in the chip’s architecture had led to production and shipment slowdowns.

However, in the same month, Huang told  CNBC the demand for Blackwell was “insane.”

“Everybody wants to have the most and everybody wants to be first,” Huang said.

The Blackwell chip, which is predicted to cost between $30,000 and $40,000, will be snapped up by Big Tech companies building AI data centers, including Microsoft and Meta.

In November, Huang confirmed  the chips would ship to “very strong” demand in the current quarter.

Nvidia’s stock closed at a record high of $149.43 on Monday, bringing its valuation to $3.66 trillion and making it the world’s second-most valuable listed company behind Apple (AAPL.O) 

Despite posting a monthly loss in December, Nvidia stock gained 171% over the year, making it the biggest individual driver of the S&P 500 Index’s overall growth.