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At GTC: NVIDIA RTX Professional Laptop GPUs Debut, New NVIDIA Studio Laptops, a Massive Omniverse Upgrade and NVIDIA Canvas Update

March Studio Driver optimizes NVIDIA Omniverse, Canvas, Blender Cycles and popular creative apps.
March 22, 2022 by Gerardo Delgado
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Digital artists and creative professionals have plenty to be excited about at NVIDIA GTC.

Impressive NVIDIA Studio laptop offerings from ASUS and MSI launch with upgraded RTX GPUs, providing more options for professional content creators to elevate and expand creative possibilities.

NVIDIA Omniverse gets a significant upgrade — including updates to the Omniverse Create, Machinima and Showroom apps; with an upcoming, imminent, View release. A new Unreal Engine Omniverse Connector beta is out now with our Adobe Substance 3D Painter Connector close behind.

Omniverse artists can now use Pixar HDStorm, Chaos V-Ray, Maxon Redshift and OTOY Octane Hydra render delegates within the viewport of all Omniverse apps, bringing more freedom and choice to 3D creative workflows, with Blender Cycles coming soon. Read our Omniverse blog for more details.

NVIDIA Canvas, the beta app sensation using advanced AI to quickly turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images, has received a stylish update.

The March Studio Driver, available for download today, optimizes the latest creative app updates, featuring Blender Cycles 3.1, all with the stability and reliability NVIDIA Studio delivers.

To celebrate, NVIDIA is kicking off the #MadeInMachinima contest. Artists can remix iconic characters from Squad, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Mechwarrior 5 into a cinematic short in Omniverse Machinima to win NVIDIA Studio laptops. The contest runs through June 27. Visit the contest landing page for details.

New NVIDIA RTX Laptop GPUs Unlock Endless Creative Possibilities

Professionals on the go have powerful new laptop GPUs to choose from, with faster speeds and larger memory options: RTX A5500, RTX A4500 , RTX A3000 12GB, RTX A2000 8GB and NVIDIA RTX A1000. These GPUs incorporate the latest RTX and Max-Q technology, are available in thin and light laptops, and deliver extraordinary performance.

New NVIDIA RTX laptop GPUs tackle creative workflows enabling creation from anywhere.

Our new flagship laptop GPU, the NVIDIA RTX A5500 with 16GB of memory, is capable of handling the most challenging 3D and video workloads; with up to double the rendering performance of the previous generation RTX 5000.

The most complex, advanced, creative workflows have met their match.

NVIDIA Studio Laptop Drop

Three extraordinary Studio laptops are available for purchase today.

The ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 is capable of incredible performance, and is configurable with a wide-range of professional and consumer GPUs. It’s rich with creative features: certified color-accurate 16-inch 120 Hz 3.2K OLED wide-view 16:10 display, a three-button touchpad for 3D designers, ASUS dial for video editing and an enlarged touchpad for stylus support.

MSI’s Creator Z16P and Z17 sport an elegant and minimalist design, featuring up to an NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti or RTX A5500 GPU, and boast a factory-calibrated True Pixel display with QHD+ resolution and 100 percent DCI-P3 color.

NVIDIA Studio laptops are tested and validated for maximum performance and reliability. They feature the latest NVIDIA technologies that deliver real-time ray tracing, AI-enhanced features and time-saving rendering capabilities. These laptops have access to the exclusive Studio suite of software — including best-in-class Studio Drivers, NVIDIA Omniverse, Canvas, Broadcast and more.

In the weeks ahead, ASUS and GIGABYTE will make it even easier for new laptop owners to enjoy one of the Studio benefits. Upgraded livestreams, voice chats and video calls — powered by AI — will be available immediately with the NVIDIA Broadcast app preinstalled in their Pro Art and AERO product lines.

To Omniverse and Beyond

New Omniverse Connections are expanding the ecosystem and are now available in beta: Unreal Engine 5 Omniverse Connector and the Adobe Substance 3D Material Extension, with the Adobe Substance 3D Painter Omniverse Connector very close behind, allowing users to enjoy seamless, live-edit texture and material workflows.

Maxon’s Cinema4D now supports USD and is compatible with OmniDrive, unlocking Omniverse workflows for visualization specialists.

Artists can now use Pixar HD Storm, Chaos V-Ray, Maxon Redshift and OTOY Octane renderers within the viewport of all Omniverse apps, with Blender Cycles coming soon. Be it refining 3D scenes or exporting final projects, artists can switch between the lightning-fast Omniverse RTX Renderer, or their preferred renderer with advantageous features.

The Junk Shop by Alex Treviño. Original Concept by Anaïs Maamar. Note Hydra render delegates displayed in the renderer toggle menu.

CAD designers can now directly import 26 popular CAD formats into Omniverse USD scenes.

The integration of NVIDIA Maxine’s body pose estimation feature in the Omniverse Machinima app gives users the ability to track and capture motion in real time using a single camera — without requiring a MoCap suit — with live conversion from a 2D camera capture to a 3D model.

Read more about Omniverse for content creators here.

And if you haven’t downloaded Omniverse, now’s the time.

Your Canvas, Never Out of Style

Styles in Canvas — preset filters that modify the look and feel of the painting — can now be modified in up to 10 different variations.

More style variations enhance artist creativity while providing additional options within the theme of their selected style.

Check out style variations; and if you haven’t already, download Canvas, which is free for RTX owners.

3D Creative App Updates Backed by March NVIDIA Studio Driver

In addition to supporting the latest updates for NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Canvas, the March Studio Driver also supports a host of other recent creative app and renderer updates.

The highly anticipated Blender 3.1 update adds USD preview surface material export support, making it easier to move assets between USD-supported apps, including Omniverse.

Blender artists equipped with NVIDIA RTX GPUs maintain performance advantages over Mac. Midrange GeForce RTX 3060 Studio laptops deliver 3.5x faster rendering than the fastest M1 Max Macbooks per Blender’s benchmark testing.

Performance testing conducted by NVIDIA in March 2022 with Intel Core i9-12900HK, 32GB RAM and MacBook Pro 16 with M1 Max, 32GB RAM. NVIDIA Driver 511.97.

Luxion Keyshot 11 brings several updates: GPU-accelerated 3D paint features, physical simulation using NVIDIA PhysX, and NVIDIA Optix shader enhancements, speeding up animation workflows by up to 3x.

GPU Audio Inc., with an eye on the future, paves the way into parallel processing power for audio solutions, introducing their inaugural, early-access NVIDIA GPU-based VST3, bringing the power of GPUs to customizable, low latency convolution reverb — an audio production game changer.

Download the March Studio Driver today.

On-Demand Sessions for Creators

Join the first GTC breakout session dedicated to the creative community.

“NVIDIA Studio and Omniverse for the Next Era of Creativity” will include artists and directors from NVIDIA’s creative team. Network with fellow 3D artists and get Omniverse feature support to enhance 3D workflows. Join this free session on Wednesday, March 23, from 7-8 a.m. Pacific.

It’s just one of many Omniverse sessions available to watch live or on demand, including the featured sessions below:

Themed GTC sessions and demos covering visual effects, virtual production and rendering, AI art galleries, and building and infrastructure design are also available to help realize your creative ambition.

Real or rendered?

Also this week, game artists, producers, developers and designers are coming together for the annual Game Developers Conference where NVIDIA launched Omniverse for Developers, providing a more collaborative environment for the creation of virtual worlds.

At GDC, NVIDIA sessions to assist content creators in the gaming industry will feature virtual worlds and AI, real-time ray tracing, and developer tools. Check out the complete list.

To boost your creativity throughout the year, follow NVIDIA Studio on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. There you’ll find the latest information on creative app updates, new Studio apps, creator contests and more. Get updates directly to your inbox by subscribing to the Studio newsletter.

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Into the Omniverse: How Industrial AI and Digital Twins Accelerate Design, Engineering and Manufacturing Across Industries

March 12, 2026 by James McKenna
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Into the Omniverse imagery with an egocentric car view and industrial factories.

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advancements in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse.

Industrial AI, digital twins, AI physics and accelerated AI infrastructure are empowering companies across industries to accelerate and scale the design, simulation and optimization of products, processes and facilities before building in the real world.

Earlier this month, NVIDIA and Dassault Systèmes announced a partnership that brings together Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin platforms, NVIDIA accelerated computing, AI physics open models and NVIDIA CUDA-X and Omniverse libraries. This allows designers and engineers to use virtual twins and companions — trained on physics-based world models — to innovate faster, boost efficiency and deliver sustainable products.

Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA software now uses NVIDIA CUDA-X and AI physics libraries for AI-based virtual twin physics behavior — empowering designers and engineers to accurately and instantly predict outcomes in simulation.

NVIDIA is adopting Dassault Systèmes’ model-based systems engineering technologies to accelerate the design and global deployment of gigawatt-scale AI factories that are powering industrial and physical AI across industries. Dassault Systèmes will in turn deploy NVIDIA-powered AI factories on three continents through its OUTSCALE sovereign cloud, enabling its customers to run AI workloads while maintaining data residency and security requirements.

These efforts are already making a splash across industries, accelerating industrial development and production processes.

Industrial AI Simulations, From Car Parts to Cheese Proteins 

Digital twins, also known as virtual twins, and physics-based world models are already being deployed to advance industries.

In automotive, Lucid Motors is combining cutting-edge simulation, AI physics open models, Dassault Systèmes’ tools for vehicle and powertrain engineering and digital twin technology to accelerate innovation in electric vehicles. 

In life sciences, scientists and researchers are using virtual twins, Dassault Systèmes’ science-validated world models and the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform to speed molecule and materials discovery, therapeutics design and sustainable food development.

The Bel Group is using technologies from Dassault Systèmes’ supported by NVIDIA to accelerate the development and production of healthier, more sustainable foods for millions of consumers. 

The company is using Dassault Systèmes’ industry world models to generate and study food proteins, creating non-dairy protein options that pair with its well-known cheeses, including Babybel. Using accurate, high-resolution virtual twins allows the Bel Group to study and develop validated research outcomes of food proteins more quickly and efficiently.

Using accurate, high-resolution virtual twins allows the Bel Group to study and develop validated research outcomes of food proteins more quickly and efficiently.

In industrial automation, Omron is using virtual twins and physical AI to design and deploy automation technology with greater confidence — advancing the shift toward digitally validated production. 

In the aerospace industry, researchers and engineers at Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research use virtual twins and AI companions powered by Dassault Systèmes’ Industry World Models and NVIDIA Nemotron open models to accelerate the design, testing and certification of aircrafts.

Learning From and Simulating the Real World 

Dassault Systemes’ physics-based Industry World Models are trained to have PhD-level knowledge in fields like biology, physics and material sciences. This allows them to accurately simulate real-world environments and scenarios so teams can test industrial operations end to end — from supply chains to store shelves — before deploying changes in the real world. 

These virtual models can help researchers and developers with workflows ranging from DNA sequencing to strengthening manufactured materials for vehicles. 

“Knowledge is encoded in the living world,” said Pascal Daloz, CEO of Dassault Systemes, during his 3DEXPERIENCE World keynote. “With our virtual twins, we are learning from life and are also understanding it in order to replicate it and scale it.” 

Get Plugged In to Industrial AI

Learn more about industrial and physical AI by registering for NVIDIA GTC, running March 16-19 in San Jose, kicking off with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote address on Monday, March 16, at 11 a.m. PT. 

At the conference:

  • Explore an industrial AI agenda packed with hands-on sessions, customer stories and live demos. 
  • Dive into the world of OpenUSD with a special session focused on OpenUSD for physical AI simulation, as well as a full agenda of hands-on OpenUSD learning sessions. 
  • Find Dassault Systèmes in the industrial AI and robotics pavilion on the show floor and learn from Florence Hu-Aubigny, executive vice president of R&D at Dassault Systemes, who’ll present on how virtual twins are shaping the next industrial revolution.
  • Get a live look at GTC with our developer community livestream on March 18, where participants can ask questions, request deep dives and talk directly with NVIDIA engineers in the chat.

Learn how to build industrial and physical AI applications by attending these sessions at GTC.

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NVIDIA Virtualizes Game Development With RTX PRO Server

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs centralize compute infrastructure for content creation, AI, engineering and quality assurance, delivering workstation-class performance at data center scale for game studios.
March 10, 2026 by Paul Logan
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Game development teams are working across larger worlds, more complex pipelines and more distributed teams than ever. At the same time, many studios still rely on fixed, desk-bound GPU hardware for critical production work.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week in San Francisco, NVIDIA is showcasing a new approach to bring together disparate workflows using virtualized game development on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and NVIDIA vGPU software.

With the RTX PRO Server, studios can centralize and virtualize core workflows across creative, engineering, AI research and quality assurance (QA) — all on shared GPU infrastructure in the data center. 

This enables teams to maintain the responsiveness and visual fidelity they expect from workstation-class systems while improving infrastructure utilization, scalability, data security and operational consistency across teams and locations.

Simplifying Complex Workflows

As game development studios scale, hardware can often sit underutilized in one location while other teams wait to access it for production work. QA capacity is hard to expand quickly. Over time, workstation hardware, drivers and tools diverge, making bugs harder to reproduce. AI workloads are often isolated on separate infrastructure, creating more operational overhead. 

The NVIDIA RTX PRO Server helps studios move from workstation-by-workstation scaling to centralized GPU infrastructure. Studios can pool resources, allocate performance by workload and support parallel development, testing and AI workflows without expanding physical workstation sprawl.

Centralized GPU infrastructure enables studios to run AI training, simulation and game automation workloads overnight, then dynamically reallocate the same resources to interactive development during the day, improving overall utilization and reducing idle capacity.

The NVIDIA RTX PRO Server supports virtualized workflows for 3D graphics and AI across the game development lifecycle for:

  • Artists: Providing virtual RTX workstations for traditional 3D and generative AI content-creation workflows.
  • Developers: Powering consistent, high-performance engineering environments for coding and 3D development.
  • AI researchers: Offering large-memory GPU profiles for fine-tuning, inference and AI agents.
  • QA teams: Enabling scalable game validation and performance testing using the same NVIDIA Blackwell architecture used by GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.

This allows studios to support multiple teams — including across sites and contractors — on one common GPU platform, improving collaboration and reducing debugging issues that can arise from disparate hardware.

Supporting AI and Engineering on Shared Infrastructure

AI is becoming a core part of everyday game development, spanning coding, content creation, testing and live operations. As these workflows expand, studios need infrastructure that can support AI alongside traditional graphics workloads without introducing separate, siloed systems.

With the RTX PRO Server, studios can support coding agents, internal model experimentation and AI-assisted production workflows without spinning up a separate AI stack for every team.

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU features a massive 96GB memory buffer, enabling developers to run multiple demanding applications simultaneously while supporting AI inference on larger models directly alongside real-time graphics workflows.

NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology partitions a single GPU into isolated instances with dedicated memory, compute and cache resources. Combined with NVIDIA vGPU software, MIG can help studios securely allocate GPU capacity across users and workloads. In combined MIG and vGPU configurations, a single RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU can support up to 48 concurrent users, maximizing utilization while maintaining performance isolation.

Enterprise-Ready Deployment for Game Studios

NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers are designed for enterprise-grade data-center operations. Studios can deploy virtual workstations on RTX PRO Servers via NVIDIA vGPU on supported hypervisor and remote workstation platforms.

That means RTX PRO Servers can fit into studios’ existing infrastructure and IT practices, rather than requiring one-off deployments.

Major game publishers already use NVIDIA vGPU technology to scale centralized development infrastructure and improve efficiency at studio scale.

​Learn more about the NVIDIA RTX PRO Server.

See these workflows live by joining NVIDIA’s booth 1426 at GDC or attending NVIDIA GTC, running March 16-19 in San Jose, California. 

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GeForce NOW Raises the Game at the Game Developers Conference

Dive into all the latest announcements for GeForce NOW and catch five new games in the cloud, including the latest entry in ‘Monster Hunter Stories’ and Fortnite’s ‘Save The World’ update.
March 12, 2026 by GeForce NOW Community
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GDC news on GeForce NOW

GeForce NOW is bringing the game to the Game Developers Conference (GDC), running this week in San Francisco. While developers build the future of gaming, GeForce NOW is delivering it to gamers. The latest updates bring smoother performance, easier game discovery and a fresh lineup of blockbuster titles to the cloud.

Game discoverability gets a boost with new in‑app labels for connected accounts for Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+. It’ll be easier than ever to see titles already available through linked subscriptions, so members can seamlessly jump into games they already own.

Virtual reality gets a smooth upgrade — supported devices now stream at 90 frames per second (fps), up from 60 fps, delivering more responsive and immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences.

Account linking is also leveling up. Following Gaijin single sign-on announced at CES in January, GOG account linking and game library syncing are coming soon.

The GeForce NOW library continues to grow with new releases joining the cloud at launch: CONTROL Resonant and Samson: A Tyndalston Story. Plus, select Xbox titles will join the Install-to-Play library.

In addition, there’s a lineup of five new games to catch this week, including Capcom’s Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, on top of the latest update for Fortnite.

Gaming Is Buzzing

GeForce NOW is rolling into GDC with an easier way to keep track of titles, as well as performance upgrades and a growing lineup of major titles ready to stream at launch.

Keeping track of which game lives on which service can be tricky. In‑App labels — coming soon to GeForce NOW for connected subscriptions — will help make it simple for members to know exactly what games they can play on GeForce NOW. Once a member connects their Xbox Game Pass Account or Ubisoft+ account, clear labels will appear directly on the game art inside the GeForce NOW app — eliminating guesswork and making it easy to see exactly what’s available to play from their game subscription services.

GOG and Gaijin SSO coming to GeForce NOW
Set it and forget it.

Account linking is expanding too. On top of Gaijin single sign-on, GeForce NOW is adding GOG account linking and game library syncing in the coming months.              

90fps VR gaming on GeForce NOW
Smooth moves.

Virtual reality is also getting an upgrade. Starting Thursday, March 19, VR devices that GeForce NOW supports, including Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest and Pico devices, will stream at 90 fps for Ultimate members, an increase from 60 fps. The higher frame rate enhances smoothness, responsiveness and realism across every session — whether gamers are chasing enemies through neon-lit streets or exploring far‑flung alien worlds.

GeForce NOW’s Install‑to‑Play library is also expanding with select Xbox titles, including Brutal Legend from Double Fine Productions and Contrast from Compulsion Games. These additions bring more flexibility for members to download and install their owned games alongside streaming favorites.

That’s just the start. Highly anticipated games are headed to the cloud at launch:

CONTROL Resonant coming to GeForce NOW
Bending reality.

CONTROL Resonant — Remedy’s upcoming action‑adventure role-playing game (RPG) that blends supernatural powers with a warped Manhattan facing a reality-bending cosmic threat.

Samson coming to GeForce NOW
Unravel a family story steeped in myths.

Samson: A Tyndalston Story — the game from Liquid Swords is a gritty action brawler, set in the city of Tyndalston, launching on PC.

Free to Save the World

Fortnite save the world on GeForce NOW
Chaos in the cloud.

Fortnite’s original adventure is back in the spotlight — and soon, it’ll free to play. Fortnite first launched in 2017 as a story-driven co‑op experience, and on Thursday, April 16, the “Save the World” update will officially be free to play for all players. Pre-registration begins on Thursday, March 12.

Join forces against hordes of husks, solo or with the squad, in a player vs. environment action-packed story, complete with gathering, crafting and collecting. Pick a favored playstyle with four distinct classes to choose from, over 150 heroes and weapons to upgrade, and loadout customization options to hone builds even further. With hundreds of updates since its original launch and over 100 hours of content, squads can build, grind gear and engineer elaborate homebase defenses to keep the Storm King at bay. “Save the World” isn’t available on mobile devices, including tablets.

On GeForce NOW, Fortnite “Save the World” streams straight from the cloud — no waiting around for updates or patches. Low‑latency streaming keeps building, shooting and trap placement feeling snappy across supported devices. Stay in the action with GeForce NOW.

Gear Up for Glory

Battlefield 6 reward on GeForce NOW
The cloud makes it easy to suit up in style.

From chaotic infantry clashes to roaring jet dogfights, every match is an unpredictable explosion of strategy and mayhem in EA’s Battlefield 6. 

This week, GeForce NOW Ultimate members can drop into the action with serious style — a new reward, the Advancing Gloom Soldier Skin, gives soldiers a sleek, battle-hardened look fit for the frontlines. Members can claim it in their GeForce NOW account portals, redeem it at EA.com/redeem, then show up ready in true Ultimate fashion. It’s available through Sunday, April 12, or while supplies last.

Being a GeForce NOW member pays off. Whether streaming on the go or maxing out graphics in the cloud, members get exclusive rewards to keep and flaunt.

Start the Games

MH3 Twister Reflection on GeForce NOW
Twin monsters, one cloud.

Twin Rathalos, born in a twist of fate, set the stage for the third entry in the Monster Hunter Stories RPG series, launching on GeForce NOW. Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is an RPG series set in the Monster Hunter world, where players can become a Rider, and raise and bond with their favorite monsters. Play it instantly on GeForce NOW and take the adventure anywhere, on any device.

In addition, members can look for the following:

  • Warcraft I: Remastered (New release on Ubisoft, March 11)
  • Warcraft II: Remastered (New release on Ubisoft, March 11)
  • 1348 Ex Voto (New release on Steam, March 12, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
  • John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (New release on Steam, March 12, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)
  • Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection (New release on Steam, March 12, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)

This week’s additional GeForce RTX 5080-ready game, on top of the addition of John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, 1348 Ex Voto and Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection:

  • Greedfall: The Dying World 1.0 (Steam, GeForce RTX 5080-ready)

What are you planning to play this weekend? Let us know on X or in the comments below.

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