Tune into Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang’s opening GTC 2019 keynote livestream proper right here… it kicks off in just some hours! We’re transferring into the busy interval of PC {hardware}, with each the Game Developers Conference and Graphics Technology Conference beginning this week. And one of many greatest occasions on this busy Monday will see Jen-Hsun delivering the opening keynote handle of its 10th annual GTC occasion.
Taking place on the San Jose State University Events Center right now, just some hours down the street from the GDC social gathering, the keynote is being livestreamed for all of us to take pleasure in, and you may watch the entire thing from the protection of PCGamesN beneath. Jen-Hsun will take the stage at 2pm Pacific time, which is 9pm GMT and 10pm CET, however we’ll prevent a seat.
So, what’s he going to be speaking about? The extra high-speed data interconnect companies you buy the extra you save? Maybe. But you can too anticipate to listen to an entire lot extra about ray tracing because it’s nonetheless one thing Nvidia desperately must persuade the world is a factor for gaming. And, because the occasion is sort of piggy-backing GDC, you may anticipate to listen to extra gaming-centric bulletins than you may in any other case get out of a GTC occasion.
Nvidia’s Graphics Technology Conference is generally restricted to information concerning the enterprise, knowledge centre, machine studying, automotive sides of Nvidia’s enterprise and fewer concerning the enjoyable GeForce facet of the equation.
But this 12 months we may hear much more concerning the gaming pretties, plus it’s additionally the 10th GTC occasion, so Nvidia may simply have one thing particular up its collective sleeve…
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What about new graphics playing cards? Jeez, grasping a lot? Nvidia has solely lately launched the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti playing cards, and also you need extra? Of course you do, that’s what we do. And there have been rumours that Nvidia may begin to make extra noises about its plans for 7nm GPUs – although that no less than will probably be restricted to the skilled facet.
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We have additionally heard rumours of a 7nm Turing refresh afterward down the road, however nothing extra concrete than whispers within the wind and Samsung’s assertions that Nvidia is one in all its 2020 7nm EUV launch customers, with sampling starting to ship this 12 months.
There has additionally been some hypothesis that the Ampere codename might rear its head as soon as extra, although that’s much more spurious a hearsay than the suggestion that 7nm components may get a point out.
But you’ll find out all the small print first hand by tuning into the embedded livestream above at 2pm PST | 9pm GMT | 10pm CET.
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