Nvidia

Nvidia’s AI lead pushed it to become a $1 trillion company, while its H100 chips are so in demand they can be used as collateral even as the next-gen Nvidia GH200 sits on the horizon.

Called Portal: Prelude RTX, it’s free for owners of the original Portal on Steam once it’s released at 3PM ET today.

Tie or Ti in a GeForce 4080 Ti? Jeff Fisher at Nvidia has tried to answer that in the past, and the vice president of Nvidia’s PC business is now appearing via a prerecorded video deposition. Nvidia was against Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition until the Xbox maker struck a deal earlier this year to bring Xbox PC games to Nvidia’s GeForce Now service.

I told you it was going to be a day full of video testimony. Next up we have Phil Eisler, who leads the GeForce Now team at Nvidia. It’s a nine-minute video.

The FTC will call on two Nvidia executives to testify about cloud gaming and how the company has overcome technical limitations and latency. This is a key argument in the FTC v. Microsoft case, as Microsoft argues cloud gaming is simply an additional feature right now. Microsoft signed a deal with Nvidia for Xbox PC games. “What’s notable is Nvidia initially opposed this transaction, they signed one of the side deals… and then they supported,” says the FTC.

Many people (including yours truly) are having problems with Chromium browsers and other apps flickering after installing the 535.98 driver released May 30th.

Nvidia’s researchers say Neuralangelo can be used to speed up creation of textured 3D assets for video games, art, robotics, and more.

Nvidia just announced its DGX GH200 at Computex. It’s got 256 of its new “Grace Hopper Superchips” for an exaflop of AI performance — and contains 150 miles of optical fiber and over 2,000 fans. Google, Meta, and Microsoft will be “evaluating” it, though not necessarily purchasing kits: they tend to build their own compute clouds, even if they contain loads of Nvidia GPUs.

Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service got its first Xbox PC game last week with Gears 5 and now three more are arriving today. Grounded, Deathloop, and Pentiment are all now available to GeForce Now subscribers as part on the ongoing 10-year deal between Microsoft and Nvidia. Microsoft Store support is also coming to GeForce Now in the coming months.

It’s not the pandemic highs — but with $2 billion in profit this quarter, record data center revenue and small bumps in almost every other category, it’s looking pretty rosy for the green GPU giant despite the recent slump in demand for PCs. Just a continuation of the story from last quarter, really.

OBS Studio 29 just went live today with support for real-time AV1 — letting the latest Nvidia and possibly AMD and Intel graphics cards stream way higher quality video to YouTube using the same amount of data.

Nvidia now supports native 4K streaming through GeForce Now on LG 2023 smart TVs like the OLED B3, C3, and G3. Up until now 4K GeForce Now streaming was only available on some Samsung TVs with an Ultimate subscription. LG’s 2021 and 2022 models are limited to 1080p. Bandai Namco is also adding the Little Nightmares games to GeForce Now today if you’re looking for something to play.

It looks like Sultim Tsyrendashiev, whose Half-Life: Ray Traced mod we just covered in February, now has a job at Nvidia!

You don’t have to wait for Nvidia to add RT to games like Portal, Quake, or Minecraft anymore — RTX Remix lets modders do it themselves, and now it’s open-source. You’ll find the runtime, toolkit and instructions at Nvidia’s GitHub. Let there be light.