The NVIDIA GeForce Project Beyond and GTC Fall 2022 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 8am PT/15:00 UTC)

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11:06AM EDT – New SM with 90 TFLOPS

11:06AM EDT – 76B transistors!

11:06AM EDT – NVIDIA engineers worked with TSMC for the 4N process for GPUs

11:05AM EDT – Announcing “Ada Lovelace”, third generation RTX

11:05AM EDT – Emphasis on RTX and ray tracing

11:05AM EDT – Discussing how NVIDIA made the demo possible

11:03AM EDT – “Racer X”

11:03AM EDT – Currently rolling some demo footage that is apparently being run on a single GPU

11:02AM EDT – “Future games will not have pre-baked worlds. Future games will be simulations”

11:01AM EDT – “Today we will show you new advances in NVIDIA RTX, NVIDIA AI, and NVIDIA Omniverse”

11:00AM EDT – And here we go

11:00AM EDT – So it should be a tight show

11:00AM EDT – Like NVIDIA’s other GTC presentations, I’m expecting this to be entirely pre-recorded

10:59AM EDT – A thank you to my colleague Gavin Bonshor, who picked up on the fact that I wrote the wrong year in the article title (d’oh!)

10:59AM EDT – And here we go. There’s just over a minute left on the stream timer

Kicking off a bit later this morning will be NVIDIA’s GTC 2022 fall keynote, which should prove to be a very interesting event.

Besides NVIDIA’s usual run-through of business announcements, the first part of this GTC’s keynote will be focused on NVIDIA’s GeForce products, making for a very rare appearance at NVIDIA’s increasingly enterprise-focused event. NVIDIA has been teasing the GeForce portion of the event as “Project Beyond” for about the past month, and in traditional secretive NVIDIA fashion, that’s all we officially know ahead of the show.

Given the timing of this event, the announcement of NVIDIA’s next-generation of consumer video cards (GeForce RTX 40 series?) and associated GPUs is a very safe bet. The GeForce RTX 30 series premiered just over two years ago, which is right in line with NVIDIA’s usual bi-annual consumer product cadence.

Significant performance improvements are (hopefully) in the cards, but it will be interesting to see what NVIDIA does in light of the current cypto hangover, which hit a fevered pitch last week with the long-awaited completion of the Ethereum Merge – eliminating the need for video cards to mine the popular cryptocoin. The market for video cards is almost certain to be saturated for the next several months, especially as the performance levels covered by the current RTX 30 series cards. Which means it’s cards that would be faster than the RTX 3090 and its ilk that are the most likely to succeed in the current climate.

At the same time, from a graphics feature standpoint, NVIDIA has been relatively stagnant since the release of the Turing architecture (RTX 20 series) in 2018, when NVIDIA first added DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2) support. As a result, a more feature-focused release would not be unusual for NVIDIA, but at the same time we are not immediately aware of any new features under development for DirectX.

Following CEO Jensen Huang’s GeForce presentation, we’re expecting the GTC keynote to then dovetail into a more traditional enterprise presentation. NVIDIA’s H100 Hopper accelerator will no doubt be a big focus, as it’s slated to ship soon. As well, NVIDIA has been ever-increasingly focused on robotics, medical, automotive, and of course their omniverse simulation environment. So there should be no shortage of other things to talk about – even if we’re here first and foremost for the gaming cards.

NVIDIA’s keynote starts at 8am Pacific (15:00 UTC), so please join us for our live blog coverage of the green machine’s latest announcements.