519: Chapter 519 Old Huang Who Doesn't Squeeze Toothpaste

Soon, everyone rubbed their eyes in disbelief, as if they had seen a ghost.

After all, on the big screen, the multiplayer mode of Battlefield 4 was actually running smoothly at over 70 FPS.

You have to know that the previous generation flagship could only stabilize at around 60 FPS.

"Holy shit, a god-tier gaming card, must get it."

"Aren't you going to take a look?"

"It's already expensive to begin with, and this time Jensen Huang added a 'Pro' tag. Do you think we can really afford it?"

"Seems like it. I reckon when they announce the prices for these two graphics cards later, it's going to be a real shocker."

"Exactly!"

Just as these gamers were starting to celebrate, another group of users looked at the big screen with some concern...

With such strong gaming performance, it should be a huge help to them as well, right?

But Jensen Huang seemed to have guessed their thoughts, so he suddenly stopped walking:

"This generation of GTX980 is a comprehensive upgrade, so it's not just for gaming. For content creators, CUDA general-purpose computing performance is increased by 75%, and video rendering speed is nearly twice as fast.

In other words, work that used to take everyone 5 hours to finish can be saved to three hours, or even shorter, with this generation of GTX980."

Some short-video bloggers were instantly tempted when they saw these figures!

After all, for them, time is money.

Seeing this, they all instantly felt that their wallets were in danger...

Originally, their promotional drafts were written about Jensen Huang harvesting gamers, but they didn't expect that he was harvesting everyone!

And the smile on Jensen Huang's face on stage clearly hadn't faded:

"For users with computing power needs..."

Jensen Huang didn't say the word 'mining' on stage, but the screen clearly listed the hash computing power data for Bitcoin and Litecoin:

The GTX980's hash rate reached 850KH/s, which is more than double the 380 of the previous generation GTX780...

Not only were the miners in the audience restless, but the reporters present were also stirred up.

After all, the virtual currency market has been soaring recently, and a graphics card's computing power directly determines the payback period.

With this GTX980 computing performance, let alone gamers and video creators, miners will definitely go crazy snatching them up.

I hope the industry's production capacity is sufficient this time, otherwise... it will definitely be a goldmine for scalpers.

Just when everyone thought Jensen Huang was about to announce the price of the GTX980, he suddenly shook his head with a smile and said that line everyone was expecting:

"One more thing."

Under the gaze of all the geeky gamers, Jensen Huang once again pulled a palm-sized chip from his pocket, accompanied by a close-up shot from the director.

Everyone could clearly see the GeForce logo on the chip!

At this moment, in front of all the gamers, this was the real deal.

As for the GTX980 from earlier? Don't know it, get lost, where did this wild girl come from?

But at the same time, they were deeply afraid of Jensen Huang's toothpaste-squeezing upgrade style, fearing this was just...

"We know that many enthusiasts are not satisfied with the performance of the standard flagship.

They want stronger combat power, higher frequencies, a more extreme experience, and are willing to spend more money.

So we have prepared this for them..."

Four huge letters slowly appeared on the screen: GT.

A few more players looked at this name and were tempted again, but they also heard the 'more money' that Jensen Huang had specifically mentioned earlier.

I reckon the premium on this card will be a bit outrageous!

But just as they were hesitating about whether to buy this 'IQ tax' product, a series of numbers appeared on the stage:

"A full-blooded Maxwell Pro core, 2,816 stream processors.

The core base frequency of 1320MHz can reach 1410MHz.

Although it is equipped with 4GB TFS memory, the performance is still excellent."

The rich guys who originally thought it was a toothpaste-squeezing upgrade also put their worries aside after hearing these parameters. Jensen Huang was actually acting like a decent person this time...

After all, apart from the video memory not being upgraded, everything else seemed quite good. But just as they were shocked, Jensen Huang introduced the powerful performance of this processor once again:

"Compared to the previous generation GTX780, its overall gaming performance has increased by 126%"

"All 3A masterpieces stable at over 60 FPS at 4K resolution with maximum graphics settings?"

4K at full frame rate.

These four words instantly made everyone hesitate; they looked at the big screen in disbelief.

You have to know that before this, 4K gaming was a realm that only dual-flagship cards could barely touch. Now, a single card can do it?

Could it be that Jensen Huang can only bring out better things if he's really pressured by these game developers?

At this moment, Xiao Wang, who was watching the live stream, suddenly had a bold idea in his heart: why not invest in some games...

It would be best to prove himself as well.

At the end of the day, he and Shen Fei are peers; the other guy has already become the world's richest man, while he...

He can't keep living like this, waiting to die!

He also wants to start a business and prove himself.

Shen Fei didn't know that the news Jensen Huang mentioned casually at the press conference actually made... he didn't know if Old Wang would hate him later.

At the press conference, Jensen Huang had already finished detailing the more specific parameters.

He presented the real-world test footage for 4K resolution gaming.

'Tomb Raider 9', with maximum graphics settings and TressFX effects enabled, could maintain an average frame rate of 68 FPS.

'Metro: Last Light' with everything maxed out could also run at an average of 59 FPS, which can be considered a full frame rate.

"In addition, general-purpose computing performance is increased by 150%.

Computing power has broken through 1.6 MH/s."

Although Jensen Huang said it very casually, it instantly made the entire mining community in various group chats unable to sit still.

After all, one card has the computing power of four cards, yet the power consumption is only 250W.

For miners, this isn't a graphics card at all; it's a money-printing machine.

Next, Jensen Huang only briefly introduced the two processors for portable devices, and then entered the final pricing segment.

However, considering the price of these two cards, Jensen Huang decided to lay some groundwork first, so as not to...

Otherwise, he wouldn't feel safe walking at night.

"Before the press conference started and during the conference, we discussed that the new cards would increase in price.

You all saw it just now with the entry-level ones; they have indeed gone up quite a bit, and our high-end flagships cannot escape this market change either."

The audience off-stage was already swearing, and as for the live stream chat, it was even more lively.

"Sure enough, the price went up, and I definitely can't afford it. I'd better just honestly buy a mid-range card."

"But looking at this performance, a price hike of a few hundred bucks is no problem."

"If it really only went up a few hundred bucks, your Uncle Huang wouldn't be playing the emotional card like this.

I reckon it will be at least 1,000 starting!"

"Holy shit, damn it... harvesting the roots of the 'leeks' in the low-end market is one thing, but are you going to harvest high-end users too? Isn't the premium high enough already?"