To say that NVIDIA is quite an AI powerhouse is a gargantuan understatement. Most enthusiasts know the company for its GeForce graphics cards, but machine learning has driven NVIDIA’s profits for many consecutive quarters at this point. The company’s Tensor cores and GPU architecture drives all kinds of artificial intelligence initiatives.
It was back in September of 2022 that NVIDIA first revealed the GeForce RTX 4000 series. The GeForce RTX 4090 has been the reigning GPU performance champ, essentially unchallenged, ever since then. It just abdicated the throne to its successor, though: the GeForce RTX 5090 is here, bringing with it the consumer version of the Blackwell GPU
We met with AMD executives David McAfee and Frank Azor to discover why the company’s hotly-anticipated RDNA 4 GPUs were missing from its CES 2025 livestream.