![]() While traveling for a week, I brought my M1 MacBook Air to multiple different hotel rooms across the country and tried out GeForce Now on whatever Wi-Fi was available. That's why, in addition to testing GeForce Now over high speed internet connections in the 100s of megabits per second, I also tried it out in hotel rooms-very explicitly against the advice of the app's network testing tool, at times. I'm of the opinion that if something only works under ideal circumstances, it doesn't actually work very well. But if Stadia was the prototype, GeForce Now is ready to ship. For all its failures as a platform, Stadia at least proved it was possible for the technology to work. ![]() ![]() In retrospect, services like OnLive that were ahead of their time had crashed and burned trying to make it work. It was only a couple years ago it wasn't clear if cloud game streaming would work at all. Normally, these might add up to dealbreakers, but we're not living in normal times.įirst of all: It works! And pretty well! That's a massive compliment. Even in the best cases, they have to accept the occasional streaming hiccups. Gamers need to have decently strong internet connections and can afford to download huge amounts of data. Cloud gaming comes with a lot of shortcomings. That context is crucial to understanding why GeForce Now's latest offering-a tier where players can pay $100 per six months to play games on an RTX 3080 rig in the cloud-is such a big deal. It's so sought after that months after its release, gamers were still camping out at retail stores just to spend $700 on one, while others have resorted to daring truck heists to steal them. It ranks towards the top of benchmark lists–and its Ti variant is the fastest graphics card according to PassMark right now. Right now, Nvidia's RTX 3080 is among one of the best graphics cards you can('t) buy. Now players might have their best reason to try it yet: They can actually play games using the coveted RTX 3080 graphics card. After Google's Stadia's perpetual stumbles, and even Nvidia's own difficulties with courting some developers, it's an encouraging sign that some players are still willing to give cloud gaming a chance. It’s $699 MSRP was merely a teaser that almost never saw the light of day, and its more expensive 12GB refresh had minimal improvements to justify the uptick in cost.Nvidia's game streaming service GeForce Now has cruised past 12 million players, thanks in large part to the platform's free tier. The RTX 3080 is no prince charming, either. DLSS 3.0 and ray tracing are getting more impressive as they mature, so the RTX 4080 has room for improvement here as new drivers release, to be fair. The GPU shortages of recent times caused plenty of problems, including a surplus of RTX 3000 GPUs during this year. The $1,199 price pushes it too far outside of any reasonable “price-to-performance” expectations for an 80-class GPU, and there are many factors at play here. The RTX 4080 falls short when viewed in its complete form. Where we come in is in deciding if these technical improvements merit the pricing and actual real-world results. Better rasterization, ray tracing, DLSS 3.0, efficiency, the list goes on. Newer GPUs like the RTX 4080 are always “better” objectively than their predecessors.
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