What to look forward to: Nvidia has once again teased the arrival of the RTX 5000 series without mentioning the name of the card or confirming anything officially. The company launched the GeForce Hype Meter, which offers bigger and better prizes the more users participate in the GeForce Greats promotion.
Nvidia writes that to mark the 25th anniversary of the GeForce 256’s launch, it’s going to take a nostalgic trip on its social media channels to celebrate some of PC gaming’s all-time greats.
Nvidia describes it as a “prize-filled adventure” where people can unlock prize pools by participating in game discussions and using the #GeForceGreats tag in social posts. Your answers will stimulate your GeForce Hype Meter and increase your levels until all award levels are unlocked. Looks like you’ll be getting at least one custom PC.
To participate in the GeForce Greats contest, follow Nvidia’s GeForce, GeForce NOW, Studio, and AI PC social channels and pay attention to important prompts and instructions. When prompted, use #GeForceGreats throughout your posts through January 6th.
You can check the current hype level here.
Regarding the RTX 5000 series, Nvidia writes that the GeForce Greats promotion will take place “before we even think about the future.”
It all starts now…
🟢 Celebrating 25 years of GeForce
🟢 Play along and join GeForce LAN 50
🟢 1/6/25 Watch #GeForceGreats’ NVIDIA keynote at CES 2025 → https://t.co/LGRaII9HUV pic.twitter.com/enMKzdr5OK– NVIDIA GeForce (@NVIDIAGeForce) December 13, 2024
Another event highlighting Blackwell consumer GPUs is the GeForce LAN 50 event starting January 4th at 4:30pm PT. The event will last 50 hours and end at 6:30pm, the exact time CEO Jensen Huang is delivering his CES keynote. Pacific time January 6th. The recurring number 50 is, of course, a big hint at what’s to come.
Those interested in attending the GeForce LAN 50 event can do so online or at one of four physical LAN events in Las Vegas, Berlin, Taipei, and Beijing.
To access GeForce LAN missions, open the Nvidia app, GeForce Experience, or GeForce NOW, log in with your Nvidia account, play any GeForce LAN mission for 50 consecutive minutes, and receive rewards from the program you are using. .
Huang hasn’t been seen at CES since 2019, when he announced the RTX 2060. Since then, Nvidia Senior Vice President Jeff Fisher has taken over presenting duties at the event, announcing products such as the RTX 3060, RTX 4070 Ti, and more. Recently, the RTX 4000 Super series. The fact that Huang is returning is a clear sign that Nvidia has something big in store.
Nvidia may be trying to increase the hype for the RTX 5000 series. While it sounds like the first cards to be released will be incredibly powerful, many are concerned that the company hasn’t learned from Lovelace’s mistakes and is pricing its GPUs prohibitively high. I’m doing it. With AMD admitting it won’t compete with rival next-gen flagships and most of Nvidia’s funding coming from AI products, Team Green could push RTX 5090 and 5080 prices through the roof.
A few hours ago, The Witcher 4 trailer premiered at The Game Awards. It was rendered using an unannounced Nvidia GPU, rumored to be an RTX 5090.
