[Computex 2024] NVIDIA Brings G-Assist AI, SFF Program, Game Pass Offer & More

There’s quite a few things to unpack from NVIDIA’s Computex 2024 announcements here, though unsurprisingly, a lot of AI is involved here. Without further ado, let’s get into the important stuff.

Project G-Assist: The April Fools’ Joke Is Now Real

Remember when NVIDIA jokingly announced a “new” product called NVIDIA GTX G-Assist? The premise is a dream to novice gamers – it’s supposed to help gamers who may be stuck in a certain stage of the game. That joke is now real under the name of “Project G-Assist“, which uses AI assistant technology to help gamers and users complete quests, or even check on system performance. It’s even designed to overclock your GPU with the Performance Tuning feature, and NVIDIA also envisions it as a “AI coach” that aims to help you get better in multiplayer matches.

Generative AI Gets A Big Push

NVIDIA’s Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) is now available for cloud and RTX PCs with early access – think of it as a tool for game studios and companies alike to build virtual humans from the ground up. A lot of components are involved in this process, including speech recognition (Riva ASR), response generation (Nemotron LLM), audio-based facial animation (Audio2Face), and ray-traced skin and hair elements (Omniverse). NVIDIA is also announcing Audio2Gesture, responsible for generating body gestures based on audio, and a Nemotron SLM for consumer RTX systems.

SFF-Ready Program Kicks Off

For small form-factor (SFF) PC enthusiasts, this is big news – NVIDIA is partnering with AIB and case makers to simplify component choices via a new list of all compatible products on this webpage. All GPU and cases’ GPU dimensions are listed in three axes – simply make sure the case dimensions is larger than the GPU’s, and you’re all set.

NVIDIA App Gets New Update

Released earlier this year, the redesigned NVIDIA App supersedes both NVIDIA Control Panel and GeForce Experience app. The company announced that the new update will arrive on June 4th, 2024 at 6PM (Malaysian Time). In this update, users can now record videos in 120FPS via AV1 codec, and a one-click option is available to perform GPU tuning (which takes 10-20 minutes). The in-game overlay is improved as well, re-introducing the GPU power metric that was previously missing in the earlier version.

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Hardware Announcements

No gaming GPU from Team Green is announced today (in fact, RTX 50 series was never mentioned), but there will be new monitors with NVIDIA’s G-SYNC Compatible standard releasing soon. 8 models are announced from ASUS, Lenovo, LG, and Philips – launching on June 4th.

In other news, ASUS and MSI are releasing new laptops powered by NVIDIA’s RTX 4070 Laptop GPU and “power-efficient systems-on-a-chip” with “Windows 11 AI PC capabilities.” These laptops are said to receive Copilot+ PC support when available, though it’s unclear if this is done by qualifying the 40 TOPS requirement via the GPU or NPU (from next-gen chips by Intel and AMD, though Snapdragon seems unlikely).

Gaming: New DLSS Games, Free Game Pass

Two new games are joining the DLSS roster, including Star Wars Outlaws and Marvel Rivals. The upcoming Star Wars videogame installment will feature Ray Reconstruction (as part of DLSS 3.5) feature that improves the quality of ray-traced surfaces and provides a minor performance boost. Meanwhile, Marvel Rivals will feature frame generation courtesy of DLSS 3, though this game is still in early phase of development.

NVIDIA is also teaming up with Xbox to give every GeForce gamer a free deal: all GeForce users starting from GTX 10 series and up will receive a free 3-month PC Game Pass starting June 4. Simply create an NVIDIA account (you should already have one if you dealt with GeForce Experience before), and redeem the rewards from the NVIDIA app or GeForce Experience. The guide is available in this blog post.

Pokdepinion: That oversight on NVIDIA App prompted me back to the old app, but I guess it’s good to update now.