NVIDIA @ COMPUTEX 2024

It's time for COMPUTEX 2024! One of the biggest computer and tech conferences on earth is back and the main event is happening June 4th to 7th, in Taipei, as always.

NVIDIA, however, has a bunch of Computex announcements happening right now on the 2nd, many of which I'll have the opportunity to cover live in their showroom in the next few days, and show them on all our socials, so thank you to Nvidia for making that happen!

If you want to learn more about it and everything surrounding it, check out their Website.

In the meantime, here are the main NVIDIA announcements for this year's event, with a heavy focus on Project G-Assist, SFF-Ready cases, ComfyUI Acceleration and DLSS 3.5:

PROJECT G-ASSIST: A PREVIEW OF HOW AI ASSISTANTS CAN ENHANCE GAMES & APPS

Project G-Assist is what Nvidia is calling an AI-based assistant to gaming. It can use voice or text inputs from the player, along with a snapshot of what’s in the game window itself. The snapshot and information is fed into AI vision models that provide context awareness and app-specific understanding for the Large Language Model (LLM), which is connected to a database of game knowledge, such as a wiki.

It should be able to reply to game and performance-specific questions from the user, as well as do real-time performance tuning, and this tuning includes being able to actively overclock and undervolt to reach certain framerate or power usage targets.

Another interesting feature is this AI Assistant's ability to scan your system to see if there’s anything out of order, such as not taking full advantage of your display’s resolution, refresh rate, or other capabilities, including HDR and G-SYNC. Long gone will be the days of users forgetting to set their framerates to the actual native monitor rate!

SFF-READY ENTHUSIAST GEFORCE CARDS & COMPATIBLE CASES

 NVIDIA is working with graphics card and case manufacturers to establish a new guideline called SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards and Compatible Cases.

Manufacturer product pages and listings on global retailers will soon be updated with text labeling graphics cards that meet the guideline as “SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards”, and cases as being “Compatible with SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards”, allowing for an easy identification of what fits together, which tends to be particularly important for small for factor cases and GPUs.

SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards are RTX 4070 or higher with the following dimensions:

• 151 mm maximum height including power cable bend radius
• 304 mm maximum length
• 50 mm or 2.5 slots maximum depth

Cases Compatible with SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards must have enough space to fit any SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Card and manufacturer’s bundled power connector, along with the other components of a PC. Depending on graphics card orientation, a total of 154.5mm clearance is required from either the motherboard or riser PCB to the side or top case panel. Additionally, a case must have clearance for 312mm in length, including the graphics card and extender (if any).

Right now there are 36 GPUs and over 20 cases that are "SFF-Ready" but the number should grow fast. Check this page for a list and/or check for a reference to this standard in the product page of the case you're interested in.

DLSS 3.5 WITH RAY RECONSTRUCTION COMING TO STAR WARS™ OUTLAWS & MARVEL RIVALS GETS A DLSS 3 UPGRADE

Here's the new Star Wars Outlaws trailer for a first look at DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction and RTXDI: 

Marvel Rivals Launching With DLSS 3 and Reflex:

NVIDIA RTX REMIX TO OPEN SOURCE CREATOR TOOLKIT

Since RTX Remix Toolkit launched earlier this year, 20,000 modders have experimented with using it to mod classic games.

In June, NVIDIA will open source the RTX Remix Toolkit, enhancing modding with new asset capabilities and AI Texture Tools, and integrate it with other tools via a REST API and an SDK to expand its use beyond classic DirectX 8 and 9 games. 

NVIDIA APP BETA UPDATE ADDS AV1 RECORDING & ONE-CLICK PERFORMANCE TUNING

Plenty of updates and improvements announced, including AV1 recording and the claim that it can enhance video quality by 40% without using extra disk space, as well as allowing recording at 120 FPS.