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AI is driving new capabilities across creative apps, productivity tools and gaming. Many of these features can now directly run on a laptop or desktop without the need for subscriptions or cloud access. PCs equipped with a GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU accelerate AI performance and unlock the best experience. Alongside DLSS 4 upscaling and multi frame generation, which boost performance and image quality in supported game titles, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs give you access to NVIDIA's suite of RTX AI features that can enhance your creative endeavors, give you free access to a capable (and private) chatbot, and help you enjoy streamed movie and TV at higher quality than ever before. NVIDIA has been at the forefront of AI innovation--from building AI factories to advancing the latest gaming and creative technologies on laptops and desktops. Tensor Cores, the dedicated hardware that accelerates AI processing, first launched with the GeForce RTX 20 Series in 2018 and have advanced every generation since then.

We're in the middle of an AI revolution, and while the new technology's benefits are clear, figuring out where to get started can be confusing. You're faced with buzzwords and lingo, and a nonstop stream of AI-related news makes it difficult to resolve how AI applies to you. But here's the good news: GeForce's RTX 50 Series GPUs serve as a great hardware platform to explore generative AI right on your own PC. From running large language models to playing AI-enhanced games, RTX 50 GPUs make generative AI more accessible than ever before. Follow along as we explain Generative AI, show you how it's being used to transform science, and then help you get started with AI on your GeForce RTX 50 Series powered PC.

CES 2025 was packed with all kinds of techie announcements, but for me the highlight was all the new graphics cards. Nvidia and AMD both played their hands with next-generation products, with some caveats. Nvidia certainly stole the show, with the GeForce RTX 50 Series announcement serving as the key opening message in CEO Jensen Huang's keynote speech. AMD was much softer in its talk, with sparse details on its new RDNA 4 graphics cards, resulting in similarly sparse enthusiasm. Let's go over what we learned from both companies about their GPUs and where your attention should be in 2025.