Nvidia’s GTC keynote will emphasize AI over gaming

Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) takes place in San Jose next week, not terribly far from San Franciso concurrently hosting the Game Developer’s Conference in the heart of the city. Despite geographic proximity, the subject matter of both conferences will likely be a world apart, as Nvidia CEO Jen Huang seems to be aiming for less of a talk about what Nvidia will do for gaming and more what it will do for AI.

In Nvidia’s GTC session catalog, the keynote is described succinctly: “Don’t miss this keynote from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang. He’ll share how NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform is driving the next wave in AI, digital twins, cloud technologies, and sustainable computing.”

With the recent launch of the 5090, it makes sense that Nvidia would be somewhat mum about new graphics capabilities for the latest games. At this point, improvements ...