The biggest Nvidia announcements at CES 2026

We’re not moreover a afloat week into 2026 yet, but Nvidia has already announced respective products and updates to commencement the caller year. Nvidia’s caller Vera Rubin architecture was launched earlier than expected at CES, joined by announcements for its ain Tesla-rivaling self-driving car technology, and the latest updates coming to DLSS, G-Sync show tech, and the GeForce Now unreality gaming platform.

While nary of these clasp rather the aforesaid entreaty arsenic a caller procreation of user graphics cards — thing we mightiness spot astatine CES 2027, pursuing the RTX 50-series launch past twelvemonth — it tin still beryllium a batch to parse, particularly done the immense slurry of everything other being promoted astatine the elephantine Consumer Electronics Show. We’ve rounded up the astir important announcements that Nvidia has made truthful acold to thief you enactment connected apical of the news.

Nvidia launched the Vera Rubin platform during its CES keynote, its next-generation successor to the Blackwell architecture that’s presently utilized successful its astir powerful AI chips. Nvidia says this caller architecture, which is named aft American astronomer Vera Rubin, tin train ample “mixture of experts” (MoE) AI models arsenic quickly arsenic Blackwell, but pinch acold greater efficiency. Dion Harris, Nvidia’s elder head of HPC and AI infrastructure solutions, described Vera Rubin arsenic “six chips that make 1 AI supercomputer,” which see the Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6th-gen switch, Connect-X9 NIC, BlueField4 DPU, and Spectrum-X 102.4T CPO.

Nvidia is racing against Tesla and Waymo to build exertion that will let cars to afloat thrust themselves without quality assistance, and it whitethorn now person the edge. Alpamayo, a recently announced portfolio of AI models, simulation blueprints, and datasets, tin springiness vehicles level 4 autonomy — allowing them to afloat thrust themselves nether circumstantial conditions. “Not only does it return sensor input and activates steering wheel, brakes, and acceleration, it besides reasons astir what action it is astir to take,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during the presentation.

The first rider car that will beryllium disposable pinch this tech is the caller Mercedes-Benz CLA, pinch AI-assisted driving features coming to the US this year. Nvidia’s reply to Full Self-Driving is impressive, according to my workfellow Andrew J. Hawkins, who took it for a test-drive, and says that Tesla should beryllium concerned.

The adjacent awesome update to Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) characteristic is now disposable for each RTX GPUs, providing improvements to image value and less artifacts compared to DLSS 4. This DLSS 4.5 update includes Nvidia’s second-generation Super Resolution transformer exemplary and is supported crossed much than 400 games and apps via Nvidia’s app.

This is the exertion that allows supported games to beryllium played astatine higher resolutions without compromising framework rates, a valuable characteristic for PC gamers pinch older Nvidia RTX graphics cards successful their systems. Those pinch newer GPUs will spot greater benefits from DLSS 4.5, however: it will tally faster connected RTX 40- and 50-series cards and provides a 6x Multi Frame Generation mode for RTX 50-series GPUs that generates up to 5 further frames for each framework rendered.

Nvidia is readying to motorboat native GeForce Now apps for Linux and Amazon’s Fire TV devices successful the coming months, giving much group who whitethorn not person capable gaming hardware entree to the unreality streaming service. The first beta will beryllium disposable for the Ubuntu 24.04 Linux distro, earlier expanding to further distributions successful the coming weeks. A GeForce Now app for Fire TV Stick 4K Plus and 4K Max is expected to motorboat early this year. Nvidia is besides introducing afloat formation power support for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 successful GeForce Now, allowing joysticks and yokes from Thrustmaster and Logitech to activity connected the unreality gaming service.

A caller group of G-Sync Pulsar monitors is launching connected January 7th that usage a built-in ray sensor to automatically set brightness and colour based connected your room lighting. Each exemplary is simply a 27-inch IPS show moving astatine 1440p and up to 360Hz refresh rate, pinch prices starting astatine $599.

“In agleam daylight conditions, it increases brightness and shifts to a colour that’s cooler successful temperature,” says Michael McSorley, merchandise trading head astatine Nvidia, successful a briefing pinch The Verge. “At night, aliases successful darker rooms, it reduces brightness and uses warmer tones to minimize glare and eyestrain.”