Well, that’s not news to anyone but Nvidia showcased a bunch of AI workloads running locally on RTX GPUs in Bangalore. While Qualcomm and Intel are clawing at each other for running AI chatbots and image and video generation locally using an NPU, Nvidia says the RTX GPUs always had dedicated cores for running AI tasks. On the gaming side of things, the Nvidia RTX GPUs use AI for upscaling and Frame Generation but it can go beyond just smoothing out the frame rate.
The Nvidia ACE technology in the Mecha Break game demo showcased what was possible beyond just image generation. The developers have used Nvidia’s ACE tech which lets you interact with the NPC using your voice. The NPC will answer any questions within the boundary of the game’s universe. It works through an on-device small language model but it’s scalable too. The same concept can be seen as a tech demo by a Chinese video developer Perfect World Games and they have implemented ACE to tap into ChatGPT-4o to answer more obscure questions. The game developers can put guidelines within the game world so that NPCs reply only about the game lore and anything outside of it is replied with a quick ‘I don’t know about that’ which can also quickly take a displeasing tone if you keep pestering.
Another Nvidia AI demo is the Omniverse Audio2Face which uses AI to generate facial animation that lip syncs to any audio source. The possibilities of this technology is a lot straightforward because it can help animators and game designers save a lot of time.
Well, if you’re wondering what about gamers and consumers then there’s still a good list of Nvidia AI software that offer quality of life improvements. Nvidia Broadcast and Nvidia Canvas are two such AI software that anyone can use right now. Meanwhile, ChatRTX is your own personal chatbot that runs locally on any RTX GPU computer and you can even train it using different language models.