GeForce Now - Basic servers upgraded?

GeForce Now - Basic servers upgraded?

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gangzoom

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6,254 posts

214 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Signed up to GeForce Now for about 4-5 months after Stadia died. The price is OK, went for the 'normal' level of membership (£7/month) vs £14+ for the higher 30X tier.

Been very happy with GeForce Now, fired up it up today whilst finishing some work reports, and was surprised to see the 3060 banner, where as before it just said RTX enabled.





So went off and checked, the GPU has now changed from Tesla T10 to AG10. So unlike Stadia where Google never upgraded the servers, Nvdia is upgrading are upgrading their servers quite quickly as the more expensive tier is now 4080.

Benchmarks from a few games seem to confirm the backend hardware upgrade.





The games looked pretty good before,and even with the faster base CPU/GPU newer games push the frame rates to 30fps, so 4080 still holds the premium, but not worth it for my usage.



But running Cyberpunk at max RTX settings on my Fold 4 with OK frame rates …….happy days smile






Edited by gangzoom on Saturday 18th March 08:58

Lucas Ayde

3,541 posts

167 months

Tuesday 21st March 2023
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Nice ... haven't used it in a while, must give it a go as its handier than powering up the main gaming PC when I want a blast on the TV in the living room.

I remember in the early days they gave all subscribers RTX as standard (for games that could use it) but then they made it into an extra tier of service.


All in all, can highly recommend the service. The model of simply providing a platform to run games you already own on Steam/Epic/Ubisoft is a good one and much preferable to having to buy games that you only 'own' on the service.

The one and only big drawback is that whether or not your titles of choice will run is hit and miss. They only 'allow' a limited subset of games where they have secured dev/publisher permission, to run. When the service was in Beta, you could install and run practically any Steam game in your library. Unfortunately when they started charging, some publishers smelled additional money to be made.

BrettMRC

4,037 posts

159 months

Friday 24th March 2023
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I'd never heard of this until this thread.

Can you run it from pretty much any device?

Lucas Ayde

3,541 posts

167 months

Friday 24th March 2023
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BrettMRC said:
I'd never heard of this until this thread.

Can you run it from pretty much any device?
Pretty much. There are clients for PC, Mac, Android, iOS and you can use a Chrome compatible browser, as well as some Smart TV apps:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/download/

They have (still have I assume) a free tier as well so you can try it out ... I think you get 1 hour long play sessions on that and may have to wait in a queue for access but it would let you see if you got on with streaming tech.



gangzoom

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6,254 posts

214 months

Sunday 26th March 2023
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I run GFN through Chrome most of the time, for some reason Chrome plays nicer with my Stadia controller?

Apparently Xbox Live games coming to GFN soon.....so Nvidia are learning from Stadias failure, getting good games on the platform is key. I'm tempted to get the Warhammer Total war series on GFN, but have too much work on to spend hours gaming frown.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/21/23608930/micros...