Nvidia Announcements at CES 2020
Nvidia Annoucements at CES 2020
What is CES?
CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2020 was held from 6 – 10 January 2020.
CES is one of the largest annual technology trade shows, held by the Consumer Technology Association, which brings together tech giants from all over the world.
Nvidia at CES 2020
Nvidia had quite a few interesting announcements, including new G-Sync compatible displays, game ready driver update with some new features, new RTX Studio based systems, a 14” laptop capable of raytracing, autonomous cars and robots.
Nvidia Discusses G-Sync
Nvidia announced in conjunction with some of its partners, new displays sporting an Nvidia G-Sync badge. Focused on e-sports, G-Sync is currently capable of delivering 360hz using it’s innovative technology Variable Refresh Rate which locks the frame rate of the display to the frame rate of the GPU which eliminates screen tearing. Last year LG became the first TV manufacturer to become G-Sync compatible. LG has announced 13 new models that will provide an immersive game-play experience on a big screen, free of artifacts or any screen tearing.
Acer and ASUS, not to be outdone by LG, are working on 2 upcoming G-Sync Ultimate displays. These displays will feature a new backlight technology producing up to 1400nits brightness, up to 144hz refresh @ 4K resolution, 360hz refresh @ 1080p, super low lag and ultra fast response times.
Nvidia’s New Game Ready Driver
Also announced was a new game ready driver. Improved image quality in VR Games using Variable Rate Shading and Variable Rate Super Sampling, which are part of Nvidia’s Turing architecture. VRSS dynamically applies up to 8x SuperSampling to the centre region of the VR headset, this area is known as the foveal region. In addition the driver is now capable of setting the max frame rate for any application or game to help save power and reduce system latency, this is especially beneficial to laptops. The new G-Sync features will also be included in the latest driver update.
Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 2000 Series
Nvidia also announced RTX Studio systems in partnership with 14 hardware OEMs. They showcased one of these systems. The ASUS ROG G14 notebook with a built in Geforce GTX 2060 in an 18mm thick design weighing in at just 1.6kg. That’s a 14” ultra portable laptop capable of ray-tracing!!!
GPU Technology: Robots, Autonomous Cars, Gaming
Robots, autonomous cars and gaming have something in common: GPU technology powers them all. Toyota showed off their T-HR3 robot partner which is controlled by a human operator wearing a VR headset which is fed with augmented video and perception data from Nvidia’s Jetson AGX Xavier computer. CES attendees were also able to try out an autonomous wheelchair from a company called WHILL, it won an innovation award at CES 2019 and is powered by a Jetson TX2.
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