Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang took center stage at the CES trade show in Las Vegas on Monday, unveiling the fastest consumer graphics cards for video games and artificial intelligence (AI) applications as the company continues its leadership in the AI ​​era claims.

Huang was treated like a rock star at the show. Hours before his keynote was scheduled to begin, long lines formed in front of the Michelob Ultra Arena, which can accommodate over 7,500 people. The speech finally began at around 6:40 p.m. local time, about 20 minutes late.

“Welcome to CES! Are you excited to be in Las Vegas? “Do you like my jacket?” said the 61-year-old Taiwan-born US entrepreneur in his signature leather look.

Huang introduced a number of new products, most notably the highly anticipated GeForce RTX 50 series. Based on Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, the flagship RTX 5090 graphics processing unit (GPU) features 92 billion transistors and delivers over 3,352 trillion AI operations per second.

The $1,999 GPU is the fastest and most powerful in the company’s latest chip series, operating up to twice as fast as its predecessor, the 4090, which has been banned from export to China since November 2023.