- #NVIDIA GEFORCE NOW RTX UPGRADE#
- #NVIDIA GEFORCE NOW RTX TRIAL#
- #NVIDIA GEFORCE NOW RTX PC#
- #NVIDIA GEFORCE NOW RTX SERIES#
#NVIDIA GEFORCE NOW RTX UPGRADE#
Theoretically, you could pay for the service for six months, or even two years, and then when the current shortages and extreme retail pricing fades away, you can upgrade your home PC. Or, you know, however long it takes for GPU prices and availability to return to normal. That might seem steep, but considering an RTX 3080 might cost $1,500 or more, that's seven and a half years of GeForce Now streaming. The cost for this tier is $100 every six months.
#NVIDIA GEFORCE NOW RTX SERIES#
Nvidia also claims improved latencies - supposedly better than playing locally on a latest generation Xbox Series X. The RTX 3080 tier supports up to 2560x1440 resolution gaming, and even streams at 120 fps. What if you could forget about the difficulty of buying a graphics card and simply rent the performance in the cloud? That's the theory behind the latest upgrades to GeForce Now. During the past couple of weeks, the average price on RTX 3080 cards purchased on eBay still sits at nearly $1,700, more than double the nominal price. Unless you want to pay eBay GPU prices, which still tend to be 50–100 percent higher than the official MSRPs, it's virtually impossible to buy a graphics card.
#NVIDIA GEFORCE NOW RTX PC#
One of the biggest barriers to PC gaming right now is the lack of graphics cards. Also, anything that requires the Microsoft Store is out.īut it's not just about the games and hardware.
Unfortunately, you're limited to games that are supported on the GeForce Now platform, and while there are many Steam, Epic, GoG, and Ubisoft games that will run on GeForce Now, there are plenty of missing titles as well: Borderlands 3 (and all the rest of the series), Dirt 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, and Red Dead Redemption 2 are just a few of the missing games. Yay! Users are also allocated a GPU solely for their use, while the CPU gets shared between two users. This can be good and bad.įor example, there's no cryptocurrency mining using GeForce Now. Also, it's in the cloud, which inherently limits what you can do with the GPU. The RTX 3080 is still our top pick for the best graphics cards, contingent upon actually finding one for close to the recommended price. You see, it's actually an Nvidia A10G GPU in the cloud, which is both better and worse than an RTX 3080 from a performance and features standpoint - more on that below.
#NVIDIA GEFORCE NOW RTX TRIAL#
And without a free trial or even the option to only pay for one month of the service, you have to be very committed to this.Nvidia just upgraded its GeForce Now subscription game streaming service with the RTX 3080 tier, which promises gamers the performance of a GeForce RTX 3080 in the cloud. Honestly, $99 every six months isn’t a small sum for a new way to play games you already own, but it is significantly more expensive than services like Google Stadia (which costs $9.99 a month and includes a library of games). The service gives you a taste of those new cards, albeit at a premium and with the general downsides that any game streaming platform has. And perhaps that is GeForce NOW RTX’s greatest use case: someone who’s into PC gaming enough to want to buy a 3080, or any of the new 30-series cards for that matter, but can’t due to the ongoing stock issues. The performance and visuals you get are incredible, and it helps breathe new life into your existing PC game collection if your computer doesn’t have the latest hardware. For example, any Xbox Studios games are a no show, likely because Microsoft is also developing a game streaming platform-I hope you weren’t looking forward to playing the new Halo or Forza on this.Įxpensive, but Does What It Claims Nvidiaĭespite wrapping up on a sour note, the new 3080 streaming is, without a doubt, impressive. At least, the ones Nvidia’s approved/managed to get licensed for the service. You don’t purchase games through GeForce NOW at all, it taps into your Steam and Epic Games Store accounts to bring the games you’ve already bought from those storefronts to the cloud. Games don’t come with that subscription either. Because for now, Nvidia’s expecting you to be pretty invested even to try it out.
There’s no other option for the new RTX tier, but hopefully, that’s just because it’s new, and we’ll see some form of a monthly plan like the other tiers of GeForce NOW eventually. The new RTX-enabled tier of GeForce NOW costs roughly $200 a year, but that will be in increments of $99.00 every six months. The Streaming Is Great, in the Right Games
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