Limitless rumors have pointed to CES 2025 in January as the large reveal for Nvidia’s hotly anticipated GeForce RTX 50-series graphics playing cards, powered by the corporate’s new “Blackwell” structure. With a media blitz timed to coincide with this yr’s (surprisingly good!) Sport Awards, Nvidia successfully made it unofficially official.
First, the half I’m personally most hyped about: CDProjekt’s shock Witcher 4 cinematic reveal. I’ve dropped the trailer beneath (deal with your biz, Ciri!), however the essential half for this text is the observe proper initially: “Cinematic trailer pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU.” Giggity!
However that’s not all. Nvidia additionally launched a giant advertising marketing campaign on social networks on the similar time. It principally touts Nvidia’s GeForce LAN 50, described as “a global online & in-person 50 Hour Gaming Marathon” with a number of prizes accessible in an electronic mail to press. (You may register to attend right here). Hmmmm, that’s a whole lot of 50s!
The GeForce Twitter account not solely performed up GeForce LAN 50, but in addition instantly adopted up with an invite to observe Nvidia’s CES keynote on January 6. Mighty coincidental, that.
The Nvidia touchdown web page for the festivities hints at a RTX 50-series reveal at CES as nicely, saying the next:
“Twenty-five years ago, we launched the first GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce 256. Before we look to the future, let’s take a nostalgic journey to celebrate the all-time greats of PC gaming.”
That’s an terrible lot of smoke. Nvidia is clearly stoking the hype practice fires for a giant RTX 50-series reveal on the annual electronics commerce present. Will we see an RTX 5090? RTX 5080? One thing to compete with Intel’s superior new $249 Arc B580 graphics card? (In all probability not on that final one). I’ll be at Nvidia’s RTX 2025 keynote, able to deliver you the information because it occurs. Within the meantime, we’ve bought a rundown on essentially the most credible RTX 50-series leaks and rumors if you wish to begin catching up on issues.
