The plumbing around the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 launch appears to be springing leaks everywhere, with the latest one coming directly from Nvidia graphics card partner Inno3D. The company recently posted a teaser on its website about what to expect from the company at CES, which appeared to spill the beans on a number of new features coming with the new gaming GPU range.
Nvidia is widely expected to unveil the new RTX 5000 GPU range at the CES tradeshow in January 2025, including the flagship RTX 5090, although the company itself has been tight-lipped about what it’s going to announce. However, in its teaser, Inno3D said it planned to highlight a number of “AI-accelerated capabilities” at the show, and they appear to suggest new features that Nvidia will be introducing with its new GPUs.
The information in the Inno3D CES teaser has since been significantly reduced, now focusing just on the cooling abilities of its new graphics cards, but the old version has been handily screenshotted by tech site Videocardz. At the top of the list of new features is “Advanced DLSS Technology,” which Inno3D says will now offer “better image quality and higher frame rates.” The company specifically refers to super sampling here, implying that this new tech (perhaps Nvidia DLSS 4?) focuses on improving resolution upscaling.
Next on the list is “Enhanced Ray Tracing,” specifically referring to “improved RT cores,” which is an area entirely up to Nvidia, rather than Inno3D. According to the teaser these new RT cores will “deliver more realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections in games.”
What’s interesting here is that the focus is on improving visuals, rather than frame rates. Is path tracing going to become the new norm in new games? Its recent (and highly demanding) implementation in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle system requirements certainly suggests Nvidia is pushing this feature.
Another intriguing listing in the teaser is “Neural Rendering Capabilities,” which Inno3D says will be “revolutionising how graphics are processed and displayed.” Without any extra detail, it’s hard to extrapolate what this might mean, but it looks as though Nvidia is going to go big on AI in gaming, and that’s no surprise given that AI is its big money maker right now. The teaser similarly lists features that promise to use AI to better manage power efficiency and thermals, as well as mentioning “better integration of AI in gaming and content creation workflows.”
Bear in mind that none of the above has been officially confirmed by Nvidia, which we suspect is why it’s all now been pulled from Inno3D’s CES teaser, but it looks as though the new Nvidia RTX 5000 lineup is going to feature improved ray tracing capabilities, a new version of DLSS, and some new AI gaming features.
In the meantime, while we wait for CES 2025, you can check out our guide to the best graphics card if you’re looking to buy a new GPU now, and also read our Nvidia RTX 5080 guide to see what could be coming from the next Blackwell card down from the 5090.