CES 2025 is here to start the new year off strong with some spicy tech!
We love CES. There are so many amazing tech announcements and gadgets to get heart eyes over – it’s like Christmas all over again. Over the next few days, we will be updating this blog article with all the hot goss coming out of Las Vegas, so be sure to give this a bookmark and check back every day. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this year’s event, too, so get commenting!
CES 2025
CES is a yearly event that takes place in Las Vegas, where all the big names in tech come together to show off their wares. This year’s event is happening from January 7th to 10th, and NVIDIA has already kicked things off with their keynote speech that happened on the 6th. (More on that later!)
With the likes of Intel, AMD, ASUS, and MSI in attendance, we’re sure to see plenty of innovative announcements. From new hardware to advances in AI, 2025 is shaping up to be a great year for tech.
Pro Gamers Group at CES 2025
For the first time, the Pro Gamers Group is attending CES! In our booth, we’ll be showcasing a selection of our top Pro Gamersware brands, including Ducky, Aerocool, noblechairs, HAVN, Endgame Gear, APNX, Nitro Concepts, Streamplify, and ThunderX3.
NVIDIA Keynote Speech
NVIDIA knows how to kickstart CES. This year’s keynote speech was packed with spicy innovations, product announcements, and how AI is going to revolutionise tech and gaming. If you haven’t caught it yet, we have the full two-hour video right here, but we’ll be going over our highlights below.
RTX 50 Series
It’s finally here! The RTX 50 Series rumours have been circulating since last year, and we are excited to see the official announcement and specifications.
Based on Blackwell architecture, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series harnesses the full potential of AI enhancements, achieving mind-blowing results and incredible uptick in performance on Ada Lovelace architecture. The 5th-gen Tensor and 4th-gen RT cores work with up to 21,760 CUDA cores (RTX 5090) to render your games and creative workloads in phenomenal detail. Plus, advances in DLSS 4, Reflex 2, and other NVIDIA technologies are set to boost performance even further. In fact, DLSS 4 can predict and generate up to three frames ahead, while Reflex 2 will reduce latency in games by up to 75%!
The real game changer for Blackwell is neural rendering. Marking the next era of computer graphics, these GPUs integrate neural networks into the rendering process to bring a level of detail in real-time rendering that we haven’t seen before. RTX Neural Shaders, like Neural Texture Compression and Neural Material Shading, will create cinematic-quality texture and lighting in real-time and are set to drive the next decade of graphic innovations. Neural rendering is the future!
The other big upgrade is video memory. NVIDIA RTX 50 Series takes the leap from GDDR6 to GDDR7 memory. Boasting speeds up to 30Gbps and a bandwidth up to 1.8TB/s, these GPUs are equipped with the world’s fastest memory.
RTX 50 Series Models
Both dedicated GPUs and RTX 50 Series laptops were announced during CES. The RTX 5090 is set to be an absolute beast, delivering double the output of an RTX 4090 and able to play the likes of Black Myth: Wukong at 4K 240Hz/FPS with full ray-tracing and maxed out settings. Also announced were the GeForce RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 – with release dates for January and February! The detail that really caught our eye was the fact that the RTX 5070 delivers the same performance as the RTX 4090. GeForce RTX 4090 performance at a fraction of the price? Yes, please!
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series laptops will feature an RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, or RTX 5070 – with launch dates from March. The Blackwell Max-Q suite optimises performance and battery life, enabling all that RTX 50 Series performance in a sleek, slimline package. Enjoy double the performance of RTX 40 Series laptops with 40% better battery life in a laptop as thin as 14.9mm!
If you’d like to learn more about each GPU in detail, we have a dedicated RTX 50 Series Hub with all the links you could need.
RTX 50 Series and AI
AI is the topic at the moment, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series is powered by all the latest innovations to make these graphics cards more powerful and efficient. In addition to DLSS 4, Reflex 2, and Neural Shaders, AI is being used to boost creative workflows, too. Streamers can take advantage of new features on NVIDIA Broadcast, as well as new AI agents to assist during livestreams. Game devs can use NVIDIA ACE to power NPCs and bosses to make them act more like human players and dynamically learning from player behaviour.
AI is being used to advance performance and streamline your workflows across the board, and we’re excited to see where these graphics cards take us!
Keep Up with CES 2025
With plenty more to come, be sure to bookmark this blog post and stay up to date with CES 2025. Why not drop a comment below with your favourite tech announcement?
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Emily Haylock
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Emily is a board and cosy gamer, keyboard obsessive, and content copywriter for Overclockers UK. She has been with Overclockers UK since 2020, writing about everything from noblechairs to 8Pack PCs. She writes from within her desk nest with a foster pup at her feet. (What, a desk duvet is a totally normal thing!) In her downtime, she likes to play board games, farming sims, and old-school Final Fantasy. IX to be specific. It is the best, and that is a hill she will die on.
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