NVIDIA CEO Dances into China, Eyes AI Market Amidst Rivalry

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang paid a visit to China to attend Beijing's New Year Party, marking his return to mainland China after several years.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Visits China After Several Years

Jensen Huang is well-known in the industry for his "extraordinary" deeds, such as celebrating music with locals, breaking into gaming LAN parties, and even making a visit to Denny's, where NVIDIA was founded, as per WCCFTech.

Jensen Huang, on the other hand, attended NVIDIA's New Year celebrations in Beijing, where he performed a traditional Chinese dance to commemorate the Chinese New Year of the Dragon. Based on photographs from the company's own Weibo account, Jensen appeared to be having a good time.

He wore traditional northeastern Chinese attire, eventually taking off his distinctive leather jacket, and danced in accordance with local customs. NVIDIA CEO Jensen's travel to China was not a casual one, as he allegedly spoke with the company's key clients in the region, including Alibaba and Tencent.

The situation in NVIDIA's AI marketplaces in China is serious in modern times, as not only is the company receiving bad feedback from its tangible clients for its new "cut-down" AI GPUs, but competition from the likes of Huawei is also increasing, putting Team Green in a precarious position. Jensen's visit may represent an attempt at reconciliation with Chinese clientele, which could benefit the company in the future.

The new US rules, combined with increased competition, jeopardize NVIDIA's AI future; nevertheless, NVIDIA's leadership will not stop there, as Jensen's visit reveals that Team Green is not alone.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU Benchmarks Leak

Benchmarks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 TI SUPER GPU have been revealed, and it is roughly as fast as an RTX 4080. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPU, priced at $799 in the United States, will target the 1440p+ gaming masses.

The graphics card has an improved specification sheet that includes additional cores and memory under the same TDP. The card competes with AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XT, which has already received a $100 US official price decrease ahead of the debut of the 4070 Ti SUPER.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER will be available in two GPU SKUs: AD103-275 and AD102-175 (PG141 SKU 323), both with 8,448 cores and 48 MB of L2 cache. The graphics card will also have 16 GB of GDDR6X memory, which is a 4 GB VRAM improvement over the RTX 4070 Ti Non-SUPER, and a 256-bit bus interface. The graphics card will retain its 285-watt TGP, which is the same as the non-SUPER model.

The card has 44 Shader TFLOPs, 102 RT TFLOPs, and 706 AI TOPs and supports all of the newest NV encoding methods, including AV1 and H.264. All of these factors together give the RTX 4070 Ti within 90% of the performance of the original RTX 4080, and it effectively replaces the RTX 4070 Ti, which had the same MSRP.

The graphics card tested was running at 2640 MHz, which is 30 MHz higher than the reference clock of 2610 MHz, indicating that we are looking at a factory OC card; nonetheless, such tiny overclocks will not result in a significant change in performance because the base variations have already reached their max clock rates. SUPER cards can make a difference if their power constraints are correctly used and if the VRAM is overclocked to overcome some of their bottlenecks.

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