As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionise gaming and content creation, the latest technologies offer gamers increasingly powerful tools to enhance visual fidelity and performance in even the most graphically demanding gaming titles, while providing a streamlined workflow to help manage tasks efficiently. By harnessing the power of AI-assisted tools, gamers, developers, and creators can focus more on enjoying an empowered experience rather than stressing over the process.
Taking full advantage of its latest range of high-performance AI PCs powered by NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, ASUS is spearheading the charge towards AI integration with its ASUS RTX AI PC lineup, a formidable AI PC catered for both the avid gamer and developer alike, outfitted with the company’s top-line ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC Edition GPU to deliver absolute performance that can handle even the most demanding scenarios.
Unbridled Gaming Performance, Uncompromised Image Quality
Harnessing the power of NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell architecture, the GeForce RTX 50 series AI PCs build upon generations of NVIDIA technologies and harness AI-driven neural rendering to usher in the next chapter of generative AI. Marking the company’s latest breakthrough is the next evolution of its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology, DLSS 4, set to bring unmatched performance-to-quality ratios via AI-driven image rendering that produces higher-resolution upscaling of a low-resolution native image without compromising on quality and performance.
With DLSS 4, the GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards take advantage of their fifth-generation tensor cores to provide a host of improved features on RTX AI PCs, including:
- DLSS Multi-Frame Generation: The next evolution in NVIDIA’s Frame Generation technology that massively boosts a game’s frames per second (FPS) by using AI to generate up to three additional frames per rendered frame for unmatched fluidity.
- Enhanced DLSS Ray Reconstruction: A process that uses a new transformer-based AI model trained on NVIDIA’s supercomputers to generate additional high-quality pixels for intensive ray-traced scenes, enhancing the finer details of ray-traced elements like reflections and better rendering even for the most complex parts of a scene.
- Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing (DLAA): An AI-based anti-aliasing technique that uses the same transformer AI model for improved rendering of elaborate scenes, alongside the Super Resolution technology developed for DLSS to construct a more realistic, high-quality image at native resolution, essentially acting like DLSS without the upscaling for those who prioritise image quality over performance.
Freedom to Create, Enhanced by AI
It’s not just about having the best experiences within games, though, as NVIDIA’s powerful suite of AI tools extends to developers and content creators, empowering creativity by streamlining workflows for minimal hassle and maximum productivity.
Be it seasoned developers or those looking to kick-start their game development journey, NVIDIA RTX Remix, an open-source game modding platform, allows users to create RTX mods for classic games like Half-Life 2, Portal, and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. The app features a range of tools to capture and enhance game assets, including built-in generative AI texture tools, which analyse existing low-resolution textures and upscale them by up to four times, and RTX Remix Runtime, where RTX and neural rendering technologies like full ray tracing, DLSS 4 and Neural Radiance Cache are injected into assets. All this is made possible through its Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) framework, which seamlessly blends assets between the app and popular 3D tools like Blender and Adobe Substance.
Take the Half-Life 2 RTX demo for example, an ongoing community remaster project by developer Orbifold Studios that’s free for existing owners of the game. Showcasing the full suite of RTX Remix’s capabilities, this mod drastically improves the 2004 game’s graphics to bring it up to the standards of modern titles. Reimagined with full ray tracing, high-definition remastered assets, and silky-smooth performance afforded by DLSS 4 and multi-frame generation, Half-Life 2 RTX looks like a completely new game while still possessing the same classic feel as the original. Half-Life 2 RTX is now available in its early stages, with two rebuilt chapters, Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt, and is already a promising start to what could be the definitive way to play the classic first-person shooter.
With the introduction of NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture and added FP4 support, generative AI on GeForce RTX 50 Series AI PCs is at its best. As Generative AI models grow in both complexity and scale as technology, it can become increasingly difficult to run them on even the most powerful hardware. FP4, a lower quantisation method similar to file compression, addresses this issue by decreasing model sizes. Compared to the default FP16 method, FP4 uses less than half of the memory, allowing the GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs to provide two times the performance of previous generations.
With twice the performance, RTX AI PCs deliver a leap in professional-grade video editing, providing support for the 4:2:2 pro-grade colour format, alongside hardware support that can decode up to eight times the 4K 60 FPS (frames per second) video sources per decoder. There’s also additional support for multiview-HEVC (MV-HEVC) for 3D and virtual reality (VR) video codec and the new AV1 Ultra High Quality mode, with these improvements accelerating the performance of creative apps on the GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs – be it 3D rendering, video editing, photography, graphic design, broadcasting, or architectural visualisation across Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Streamlabs. Between advanced GPU acceleration and powerful encoding, a creator’s paradise awaits.
For streamers, NVIDIA takes livestreaming to the next level with the AI-enhanced NVIDIA Broadcast App, which now features two AI-powered beta features to enhance the streaming experience: Studio Voice for improved voice quality via advanced AI equalisation and acoustic reconstruction, and Virtual Key Light, which helps streamers stay in the spotlight with automatic face relighting that reduces shadows, allowing them to be camera-ready no matter the time of day.
Moving forward, NVIDIA will roll out a pipeline of services for NIM, its AI application platform for developers, enabling RTX AI PCs to access tools for language, vision, speech and design, and use them in apps from top developers like Black Forest Labs, Meta, Mistral, and Stability AI to streamline workflows and power AI solutions. NIM microservices will also be available to users through AI Blueprints, pre-built reference AI workflows that can run locally on PCs for tasks such as creating podcasts from PDF documents, generating images guided by 3D scenes, and more. These features are coming soon for RTX AI PC users.
Next-Generation Hardware Innovations For Maximum Performance
With a high-performance graphics card as the foundation, effective thermal management is essential to prevent overheating that comes in tandem with processing large amounts of data. To this end, the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC Edition marks ROG’s first GPU with a four-fan design, with an additional fan unit on its rear that creates a powerful vertical airflow channel, boosting air pressure by up to 20% and lowering temperatures across the board, while minimising hotspots to enhanced clocking speeds and longevity.
To further supplement thermal management, the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC Edition also features a patented vapour chamber with milled pathways, allowing for its heat pipes to sink into each groove without flattening, which boosts heat dissipation efficiency, maximises contact surface and improves thermal performance by an additional 10%. Additionally, its proprietary MaxContact design increases the surface area of the GPU heat spreader, and works with the phase-change GPU thermal pad to fill the gaps between the GPU and the thermal module, ensuring unparalleled heat dissipation for optimal performance and endurance even under extreme loads.
Supported by these heat management innovations, the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC Edition can utilise its fifth-generation tensor cores and fourth-generation ray tracing cores to their maximum potential, offering optimised AI performance backed by NVIDIA’s suite of apps and features to elevate both the work and play experience.
With its next-generation hardware innovations and supplemented by NVIDIA’s wide range of AI PC tools, the ASUS RTX AI PC presents the perfect opportunity to harness the maximum potential of AI. From the enthusiast-grade gamer to content creators and even up-and-coming game developers, the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs pack the power needed to run even the most demanding games and AI tools, offering not just butter-smooth performance to dominate the battlefield, but a streamlined experience to fuel creativity.
The ASUS RTX AI PCs are now available on VII PC Trade or PC Themes.
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