This is more about how GeForce NOW is presented to you than the actual performance, but I think it should be made more clear that games like Furi aren’t a good fit. The tech isn’t there, and while that’s fine, I still get annoyed that these games are placed next to all the other games on the service that perform much better. Any game that requires precise inputs, whether it’s a competitive online game or an intense single-player one, just isn’t going to work well. This service, and all game streaming services for that matter, can’t handle games like this. I’m not saying it would be impossible to adjust, but it’s far from ideal. While delayed inputs in Control is a minor thing that doesn’t matter, Furi’s twitchy action gameplay made the discrepancy very clear, and performance (both frame rate and latency) suffered greatly. The Game Bakersįuriis a fast-paced boss rush game where every second counts, and not surprisingly, GeForce NOW does not cope well with it regardless of the new GPU. As I mentioned earlier, there aren’t many games with RTX-enabled, so after I got my fill here, I also wanted to try some more demanding on the latency side of things. I expected some graphical hijinks to occur just due to the 3080 streaming being so new, but things are very smooth. However, it let the RTX mode show off a bit, and I was impressed by the results. It’ll tell you how much latency you can expect, what server is closest to you, and whether or not that server offers 3080 streaming. Fortunately, this is easy to test install the GeForce NOW client and run the connection test in the settings menu. GeForce NOW itself and the new 3080 streaming version is available in many countries, but you need a pretty good internet connection for it to work well. Much of what I’m about to talk about will depend a lot on where you live, which is unfortunately true of any game streaming. The Streaming Is Great, in the Right Games If you want to see how the streaming runs, though, well then, let’s jump in. If you’re here to know whether or not the service is worth it, that’s a hard thing to say except for a particular type of person. Regardless, you need to put a lot of money in to get anything out of this service. Not that the last one is hard, though, GeForce NOW is available on your PC, Mac, Android, iOS, and Nvidia Shield, so you have plenty of options. You’ll need to buy your games (although Nvidia did recently announce that RTX-tier subscribers would get a free copy of the Crysis: Remastered trilogy), pay the high subscription price, and have a device to play it on. I don’t mean to make this sound bad right off the bat, but rather I want you to know what you’re in for financially before even getting started. If you like poker, that’s cool, but it’s not exactly pushing the boundaries of graphical fidelity. ![]() It’s 26 according to the GeForce NOW client, but I’d make the argument that there’s at least a little bit of filler there looking at the library considering one of them is a poker game. On top of that, there aren’t that many games supported by the service that are RTX-enabled. 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. 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.
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