Nvidia’s Gaming Announcements at CES 2026 Are All In regards to the Software program

While the Nvidia keynote at CES 2026 on Monday afternoon introduced the same old cavalcade of robots, autonomous driving fashions and large business {hardware} for AI, its low-key gaming information did not get to hitch the get together. Given there is no new gaming {hardware}, it is comprehensible. But Nvidia did launch model 4.5 of its DLSS upscaling and optimization know-how, bringing dynamic multi-frame era and an upgraded transformer mannequin for its super-resolution upscaling that optimizes for prime body price 4K gaming, notably the most recent crop of 240Hz 4K shows. The firm additionally launched new capabilities for its RTX Remix modding platform and launched apps for Linux and Amazon Fire TV.

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Nvidia’s multi-frame era works inside DLSS to extrapolate a number of frames from a single rendered body, and along with the upscaling, to boost recreation body charges and backbone. (Sadly, it really works solely on RTX 50 sequence playing cards.) In 4.5, it goes from producing as much as 4 frames for every rendered body to 6 frames for every, and it may dynamically goal the refresh price of your monitor to regulate the render-to-generated ratio on the fly to keep up constant pace and latency. 

The new mannequin for Super Resolution has fewer temporal artifacts — much less ghosting, improved antialiasing and higher readability — and works with any RTX graphics card. On the Blackwell playing cards, it helps with the multi-frame era picture high quality as properly.

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G-Sync-capable displays additionally doubtlessly get a brand new function, Ambient Adaptive Technology. (It requires a light-weight sensor on the monitor, which is uncommon on desktop displays however fairly widespread on general-purpose laptops.) As the identify implies, it may mechanically alter coloration temperature and brightness primarily based on environmental situations.

In addition to AAT, Nvidia introduced that the G-Sync Pulsar displays it launched in September 2024 will quickly be obtainable. In case you have forgotten, Pulsar improves readability on fast-moving video games performed on excessive refresh-rate displays.

While the corporate’s RTX Remix platform for modding video games with AI-generated property is not for everybody, Nvidia’s added a brand new functionality, Remix Logic, that sounds awfully cool. In essence, it lets a recreation make choices about what property to make use of — like particular climate or particle habits — primarily based on issues occurring inside the recreation.