At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, Nvidia announced a Mac Mini-style AI supercomputer for home use, dubbed Project Digits, and the launch of the highly anticipated Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.
Project Digits seemingly brings the power of AI supercomputing to personal desktops. Powering the “desktop” is the GB10 Grace Blackwell combining Nvidia’s fifth-generation Tensor Cores and CUDA cores with a power-efficient 20-core Grace CPU, which is co-developed with MediaTek. The “superchip” can deliver an astounding 1 petaflop of AI performance while being compact enough to fit on a desk and energy-efficient enough to run on a standard power outlet.
“Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher, and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during the keynote announcement.
Launching in May at a starting price of $3,000 (roughly Rs 2,60,000), Project Digits is designed to handle AI models with up to 200 billion parametres, Nvidia claims. For even more intensive applications, two systems can be paired to manage models with up to 405 billion parametres, the company adds.
Each Project Digits unit comes with:
128GB of unified memory
Up to 4TB of NVMe storage
A Linux-based operating system (Nvidia DGX OS)
Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series: Details
Nvidia also unveiled its GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, featuring Blackwell AI technology promising movie-like graphics with enhanced realism in shading and image textures, making subtle details more visually striking than before.
The RTX 50 Series will be available in tiers, starting at $549 (roughly Rs 47,000) for the entry-level RTX 5070 and going up to $1,999 for top-end RTX 5090. High-end models will launch on January 30, with budget-friendly options following in February.
The RTX 5070 matches the performance of the previous flagship RTX 4090, which cost $1,600 (roughly Rs 1,71,300), per Nvidia. The high-performance does come at the cost of increased power consumption with 575 watts for the flagship RTX 5090 requiring a recommended PSU (power supply unit) of 1000 watts. The improved efficiency should negate some of that effect, though.