
In this era of AI, industries rely more and more on computers to get work done, sometimes the user would lack the resources or an extra helping hand in completing their tasks. Now, support coming from AI has fast become a factor at work more and more, and graphics cards like NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ are getting more prominent. Corporate or freelance work may necessitate to work mostly solo; for example: in my case, as a full-stack software developer and architect in my day job, handling different apps and sites with different programming languages and tools can be a daunting task as I needed to keep my wits about understanding and writing code, and that’s where my use of AI comes in to provide me with context on my tasks.
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Summarizing the Past Article on Driving Advanced AI Use
In our previous article, we covered how NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX™ GPUs leverage its power to work on AI. But to quickly summarize, let’s recount several major features that NVIDIA and GeForce RTX™ GPUs have:
RTX GPUs have specialized GPU cores dubbed as Tensor Cores that were introduced in late 2018 in their “Volta” microarchitecture. These AI Tensor Cores can deliver more than 1,300 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of processing power used for gaming or productivity. Currently, there are more than 600 video games that are AI powered and accelerated thanks to RTX.
Greater gaming: NVIDIA DLSS is an earlier technology from NVIDIA that boosts frame rates and improves image quality, by using AI to automatically generate pixels in video games. Starting from the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 20 Series, Tensor Cores play a major part in the learning process when performing upscaling. This Wiki entry provides a complete idea how DLSS works.

But to give the cliff notes’ version, it upscales the game’s resolution from a lower resolution to what we chose in the game’s settings. This upscale is trained with the Tensor Cores, generating a new frame which the AI thinks would look like if it’s upscaled. Of course, older versions of DLSS had some snags like frames having artifacts or glitchy output. But with continuous improvements, including Ray Reconstruction; DLSS, enables richer visual quality for more immersive gameplay.
Here’s a video that shows an example of how DLSS 3.0 improves frame rates with Ray Tracing turned on:
Enhanced entertainment: RTX Video Super Resolution uses AI to enhance video by removing compression artifacts and sharpening edges while upscaling video quality. It kind of works similarly to DLSS, but for videos. If you watch uploaded videos from several decades back with output resolution of 480p, 720p, then chances are watching a full screen (or theater mode size) video would introduce artifacts and overall have a blurry appearance on a 1440p or 4k monitor. It’s a helpful feature on the end user’s side that will improve old / low video output to a more pleasurable experience.

RTX Video HDR as its name implies, converts any standard dynamic range video into vibrant high dynamic range, enabling more vivid, dynamic colors when streamed in any supported browser or app like: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or VLC media player. FYI, the effects of the shift in HDR is not as obvious compared to RTX Video Super Resolution.
The embedded video demoes RTX Video Super Resolution and RTX Video HDR:
For work, RTX AI PCs brings an extra hand in our work. It’s no longer a valid reason to avoid purchasing a laptop equipped with a mobile NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ GPU and label it as a “Gaming PC” as these GPUs now sport the aforementioned Tensor Cores which work in conjunction with applications (there are a lot). GPUs can now supercharge more work than before.
Faster creativity: Using Stable Diffusion, users can quickly create concepts and refine images from text prompts to achieve their desired output. The concept of using Stable Diffusion is to provide the artist a working idea visually of what output they’d want. Prompts can be done using text or roughly drawn images (like what NVIDIA’s Canvas does). It should cut down time of conceptualizing ideas to implementing them.

When using an RTX GPU, these results can be generated up to 2.2x faster than on an NPU. This is given that there are significantly more Tensor Cores found in an RTX GPU than that of a NPU that is usually included within a CPU. And thanks to continuous software optimizations using the NVIDIA TensorRT SDK, the applications used to run these models, like ComfyUI, get an additional 60% boost. The embedded video below provided by NVIDIA provides an idea on how Stable Diffusion image generation works:
Improved productivity: These days, we need to get information much quicker and as soon as possible. While we have online search engines and AI chatbot services like CoPilot or Gemini that extends search engine functionality; they don’t normally cover local files. Except for CoPilot+, these AI chatbots don’t work with local machines without an added subscription. Also note that public/free use of CoPilot has its drawbacks, like prompts submitted are usually retained by the company owning the AI Chatbot to further train their tool and may compromise private information.
This is where NVIDIA ChatRTX comes in. The tech demo app connects a large language model, like Meta’s Llama, to a user’s data for quickly querying notes, documents or images. It works as a personal secretary of sorts, able to retrieve information quickly and in a manner like talking to a secretary.

It is free for RTX GPU owners, the custom chatbot provides quick, contextually relevant answers. Since it runs locally on Windows RTX PCs and workstations, results are fast and private; with prompts and queries to our local files are not published online keeping information from leaking out. Plus, NVIDIA has kept up with updates on the app to prevent exploits and breaches from happening. The video below provides users an idea on how to leverage NVIDIA ChatRTX:
A Short Digression: Benchmarking AI Tools, namely LLMs
A large part of AI involves having the machine learn in order to help us do our work; therefore, it’s important that AIs leverage large language models (LLM). And in order to test how LLMs perform, two new benchmarks were introduced to spotlight LLM performance for various hardware: Procyon AI Text Generation and MLPerf Client v0.5. These two benchmarks are easier to run (see how I experienced running an AI test when I reviewed this PC), and have better replication of real-world performance by LLMs.
Since Procyon requires some form of payment to UL to get the tool, I went with the free to use route and chose MLPerf Client v0.5. There’s no installation involved, and requires just the basic knowledge of running command line applications and after several minutes downloading the required files for the benchmark test, results are already available and averaged for several tests: Content Generation, Creative Writing, Light and Moderate Summarization of text.


Work Better with NVIDIA Studio Drivers
Now, while most people will know that for NVIDIA GPUs to properly work with games, we install NVIDIA’s Game Ready Drivers. But for productive workers like those who work on video, rendering and others, well there’s a different driver available called NVIDIA Studio Drivers. The driver is fine tuned to operate with the best performance possible for the world’s top creative apps and are tested extensively for maximum stability. By the way, the latest December Studio Driver is now available, be sure to download to keep updated keep everything in tip-top shape.

With the Holiday Season ushering in, or has already ushered in and its almost the new year, and just for fun, NVIDIA’s holding a #WinterArtChallenge running through until February 2025. Share winter-themed art on Facebook, Instagram or X with the tag #WinterArtChallenge for a chance to be featured on the NVIDIA Studio social media channels!
Decisions, Decisions, time to pick up an RTX AI PC for work or play (or both)
Ther are more than 200 powerful RTX AI PCs are capable of running advanced AI as of this year. Going about and looking for your next PC for work or play is a matter of preference and budget. With a higher end laptop, one is able to get a higher spec GeForce RTX™ 4070 or 4080, but has a higher price tag. It’s usually a trade off between power and price. So, it’s a choice of getting a unit that’s worth your budget and taste/needs.
Here’s a round-up of the latest and greatest deals on RTX AI PCs here in the Philippines. Starting today, the following products are on sale (while supplies last). This list is sorted based on their brand:
Acer

ACER PREDATOR PH16-72-94UE, GeForce RTX™ 4070, 8GB Gaming Laptop, Sale Price: Php 117,500 (Php 17,495 off) – purchase and get Free Gaming Keyboard and Mouse + 10K SM Appliance Voucher at PCWORX
ACER HELIOS 300 PH16-71-7890, GeForce RTX™ 4060 8GB Gaming Laptop, Sale Price: Php 90,500 (Php 24,499 off) – purchase and get Free Gaming Keyboard and Mouse at PCWORX
ACER 16” NOTEBOOKg PREDATOR HELIOS 16 PH16-72-94UE ABYSSAL BLACK, GeForce RTX™ 4070, Sale Price: Php 109,999 (Php 25,000 off) – purchase and get w/ 10K worth voucher bundle at SILICON VALLEY
ACER 16” NOTEBOOKg PREDATOR HELIOS 16 PH16-72-73KK ABYSSAL BLACK, GeForce RTX™ 4070, Sale Price: Php 101,999 (Php 23,000 off) – purchase and get w/ 5K worth voucher bundle at SILICON VALLEY
ASUS

ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS G16 GU605MZ-QR100WSM + 365, GeForce RTX™ 4080, Sale Price: Php 249,995 (Php 8,000 off) – purchase and get Free JisuLife 4 Mini Fan at PCEXPRESS
Lenovo

Lenovo LOQ 15IRX9 (83DV00QWPH) I7, GeForce RTX™ 4060, Sale Price: Php 87,995 (Php 4,000 off) – purchase and get Free JisuLife 4 Mini Fan at PCEXPRESS
Lenovo LOQ Gaming 15IRX9 83DV00BVPH LUNA GRAY, GeForce RTX™ 4060, Sale Price: Php 94,995 (Php 25,000 off) – purchase and get 8GB ADATA RAM at SILICON VALLEY

Lenovo Yoga Pro 7i 14IRH8 82Y7007NPH 14.5inch 3K IPS 400nits 120Hz, GeForce RTX™ 4050 6GB, Sale Price: Php 91,945 (Php 11,050 off) at Villman
MSI

MSI Cyborg 15 A13VF-1256PH, GeForce RTX™ 4060,8GB Gaming Laptop, Sale Price: Php 57,915 (Php 5,080 off) – purchase and get Free Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Free Memory Upgrade + Gaming Keyboard and Mouse at PCWORX

MSI GAMING KATANA 15 B13VGK-2064PH 15.6inch FHD IPS, GeForce RTX™ 4070 8GB, Sale Price: Php 85,995 (Php 15,000 off) at Villman

MSI Stealth 15 A13VF-073PH 15.6inch OLED QHD 240Hz, GeForce RTX™ 4060 8GB, Sale Price: Php 114,995 (Php 32,000 off) at Villman
These are just some of many other PCs powered by NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ GPUs, be on the lookout for other models running GeForce RTX™ GPUs that are also on sale.