Nvidia GTC 2026 LIVE — Jensen Huang set to reveal next-gen GPUs, AI breakthroughs and robotics

Current lowest prices on Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs

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While we're watching the pre-amble and interviews with key AI and infrastructure companies that rely on Nvidia, let's bring this back to you. As you may know, the RAM price crisis has sent costs spiraling.

On top of that, Nvidia did confirm that stocking consumer GPUs was going to be a struggle this year, as the focus goes on data center rollout. That has sent prices a little out of control (to say the least).

If you're committed to getting one, here are the cheapest prices we've found! The UK isn't as hard hit (especially at the mid-range). But prices have gone up across the board.

Nvidia is bringing a killer app to Apple Vision Pro!

I'm a sim racer, and race often in VR. One of the obstacles has always been the mess of cables for high quality wired VR racing, or the lower picture quality when going wireless.

But now, Nvidia's CloudXR software is compatible with Apple Vision Pro, and iRacing (and a flying sim game) are going to be fully playable wirelessly at 4K 120FPS!

This is a significant development, and a huge step forward for PC VR (and it's tempting me to burn $3,500 on an AVP!)

Why Path Tracing is important

So I tested path tracing in Resident Evil Requiem, and it's truly capable of some spectacular things — really adding immersion to a scene while keep frame rates fast and fluid thanks to DLSS 4.5 AI trickery.

Path tracing is all about physical accuracy. It’s not just a reflection in a puddle, it’s how light from a neon sign bounces off a wet pavement, hits a character’s chrome jacket and subtly tints their skin red. It’s not just the ray traced shiny surfaces of old; path tracing calculates how light interacts with literally everything in a scene in a realistic way.

This can be super testing to do entirely through calculations on the GPU itself, but with a neural network trained on billions of surfaces and light sources, it's more efficient to do through AI, as you can see from our numbers.

Ready to pre-game?

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No, I'm not talking about the kind that involves beer, but rather conversations about "accelerated computing beyond AI." We'll be watching with you, so jump in for talks about "one of teh largest infrastructure build-outs in history."

Will we see Nvidia N1/N1X?

These chips keep appearing in random spec sheets here and there, so why am I only saying it's a "maybe?"

Well, the answer comes down to two things. First, I'm not hearing much about it after the swell of reports last month. And second, this show's always been very AI-centric. Of course, we're getting that gaming preview on the keynote stage, which is definitely a change from the norm.

So it's anyone's guess really, but I hope we do get something here!

More vera rubin?

We got a whole lot of info on Vera Rubin at CES 2026, including stats on just how much more powerful this is than the Blackwell GPU tech you see in the RTX 50-series. Namely, 5x more powerful to drive the AI data centers of the future.

While speaking about data centers can be kinda dull, the main thing to look at is the architecture and what it's capable of from a GPU perspective, because it's looking very likely that the RTX 60-series will tout the Rubin stylings on the die.

Previously at GTC (and CES)

Each GTC follows a pretty reliable playbook for the year — with March being the event where all the big new stuff is announced. This is what happened last March.

• Nvidia Isaac Groot N1: A new model for robotics, Groot N1 is set to be "the world’s first open Humanoid Robot foundation model."
• "Blue," Robotics and AI collaboration: Powered by a new physics engine to simulate robotic movements, Newton was introduced, showcasing a little robot named Blue. It's a collaborative robotics project with Disney Research and Google DeepMind. An open-source model of Newton will arrive later in 2025.
• Blackwell Ultra AI chips: New chips to be released later this year, aimed at meeting the growing demand for computational power in AI.
• Vera Rubin Architecture: The next step beyond Blackwell, Vera Rubin will increase bandwidth and perform even faster. It's set for release in late 2026, with Vera Rubin Ultra expected in 2027.
• Nvidia Dynamo: Nvidia's new open-source software system designed to scale AI models effectively, and it's able to customize a data center far more effectively.
• Self-driving cars: Nvidia is teaming up with GM to create autonomous cars, developing custom AI systems for autonomous vehicles and putting "AI in the car."

And you saw these evolve over the year, including Groot N1 making it into more robotics, an Uber partnership for self-driving AI, and Vera Rubin showed in much more detail at CES 2026.

Welcome back!

It's been a while since the last GTC event back in October of last year (and the CES 2026 keynote in January). But Nvidia is back and this looks set to be a big one — with CEO Jensen Huang looking set to lay out the next few years of hardware and AI breakthroughs.

But one thing we're particularly excited about is a glimpse at "the future of real-time rendering" for PC gaming. These events are usually super focused on the AI factories of the future, and given the lofty promises made by Team Green back at GDC 2026, we may be seeing a preview of a generation of neural rendering that exceeds even what DLSS is capable of.