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Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

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Re: Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

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I liked this part:

    "one small step at a time, and one giant leap, together."
I didn't like this part:

    5090 for $2000, about $500 more than 4090 when it was announced.
They didn't mention VRAM amount though, and I doubt it's more than 24GB. If Apple M4 Ultra gets close to 1.8 TB/s bandwidth of 5090, it'll crush GeForce once and for all (and for good).

Also nitpick: the opening video said tokens are responsible for all AI, but that only applies to a subset of AI models...

Re: Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

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post #2

I liked this part: "one small step at a time, and one giant leap, together." I didn't like this part: 5090 for $2000, about $500 more than 4090 when it was announced. They didn't mention VRAM amount though, and I doubt it's more than 24GB. If Apple M4 Ultra gets close to 1.8 TB/s bandwidth of 5090, it'll crush GeForce once and for all (and for good). Also nitpick: the opening video said tokens are responsible for all…

It's 32GB, that was leaked well before the event.

> If Apple M4 Ultra gets close to 1.8 TB/s bandwidth of 5090

If past trends hold (Ultra = 2x Max) it'll be around 1.1 TB/s, so closer to the 4090.

Re: Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

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post #4
post #2

I liked this part: "one small step at a time, and one giant leap, together." I didn't like this part: 5090 for $2000, about $500 more than 4090 when it was announced. They didn't mention VRAM amount though, and I doubt it's more than 24GB. If Apple M4 Ultra gets close to 1.8 TB/s bandwidth of 5090, it'll crush GeForce once and for all (and for good). Also nitpick: the opening video said tokens are responsible for all…

It's 32GB, that was leaked well before the event. > If Apple M4 Ultra gets close to 1.8 TB/s bandwidth of 5090 If past trends hold (Ultra = 2x Max) it'll be around 1.1 TB/s, so closer to the 4090.

Jensen didn't talk about it. Maybe he knows it's embarrassingly low. Everyone knows nvidia won't give us more VRAM to avoid cannibalizing their enterprise products.

Re: Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

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post #2

I liked this part: "one small step at a time, and one giant leap, together." I didn't like this part: 5090 for $2000, about $500 more than 4090 when it was announced. They didn't mention VRAM amount though, and I doubt it's more than 24GB. If Apple M4 Ultra gets close to 1.8 TB/s bandwidth of 5090, it'll crush GeForce once and for all (and for good). Also nitpick: the opening video said tokens are responsible for all…

edit: 32GB is confirmed here https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/50-serie...

Supposedly, this image of a Inno3D 5090 box leaked, revealing 32GB of VRAM. It seems like the 5090 will be more of a true halo product, given the pricing of the other cards.

https://www.techpowerup.com/330538/first-nvidia-geforce-rtx-...

Re: Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

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AMD barely mentioned their next-gen GPUs, NVIDIA came out swinging right from the start. AMD announced two new models which by their own cryptic slide wouldn't even compete with their current top-end. Then NVIDIA came and announced a 4090-performance GPU for $549...

If that's not just hot hair from NVIDIA, I totally get the business decision from AMD but man, would love some more competition in the higher end.

Re: Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

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AMD barely mentioned their next-gen GPUs, NVIDIA came out swinging right from the start. AMD announced two new models which by their own cryptic slide wouldn't even compete with their current top-end. Then NVIDIA came and announced a 4090-performance GPU for $549... If that's not just hot hair from NVIDIA, I totally get the business decision from AMD but man, would love some more competition in the higher end.

AMD has strategically decided to abandon the enthusiasts market [0]. Really sad that nvidia's monopoly has got solidified even further. That's one of the reasons I contribute to Apple's MLX instead of CUDA.

0: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/amd-announces-new-ra...

Update: typical HN behavior. someone is downvoting all my comments one by one...

Re: Jensen Huang keynote at CES 2025 [video]

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He tried so much to look funny but it didn't look good on him. And at one point he said 4090 is like taking home an equivalent of a $10,000 PC, and he expected the crowd to clap, but no one, literally no one, clapped. Because everyone knows GeForce prices have been monopoly prices for years and 4090 is intentionally crippled by nvidia drivers to be less capable than it really is (see George Hotz in-depth analysis).
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