In spite of the global chip constraint that halted GPU production at the time, Nvidia enabled access to computers in the cloud powered by its GeForce RTX 3080. The RTX 3080 was hailed by many as the company’s most important GeForce Now improvement in years, promising exceptionally low latency and outstanding performance that bested many gaming consoles and PC rigs. For those who found it difficult to physically purchase one, bringing the power of this GPU to consumers via subscription made life easier. With the RTX 4080, it is now doing the same thing. The RTX 4080 GPUs that Nvidia is adding to GeForce Now come with a new subscription tier called “Ultimate.”
The new tier replaces GeForce Now’s RTX 3080 package and offers subscribers greater streaming performance and double the frame rate without charging them more. The new RTX 4080 “SuperPODs” provide each user with over 64 teraflops of graphics performance, which Nvidia claims is more than five times as much as the Xbox Series X and nearly twice as much as the RTX 3080 tier.
Depending on your region due to limited capacity, if you are an existing RTX 3080 subscriber, your plan will be automatically changed to the Ultimate tier starting this month. Throughout the first quarter of this year, the improved plan will roll out to more data centres in North America and Western Europe, with extended coverage anticipated in the months to follow.
Nvidia’s DLSS 3 frame generation technology and the ray tracing capabilities of the Ada Lovelace architecture will be available to those who are among the first to obtain RTX 4080 GPUs via the cloud.
Input lag is considerably decreased by DLSS 3 by minimising CPU utilisation to enhance server pod performance. Reflex 240Hz Mode, on the other hand, is a new improvement from Nvidia that will further eliminate lag. A first for cloud gaming, the business claims that this new mode may lower input latency to just 40ms.
It’s nice to see Nvidia Reflex extend its latency-busting capabilities to the cloud, making the gaming experience in this environment much less jerky. Nvidia Reflex has been accessible on the desktop for quite some time.
With the in-vehicle version of the cloud gaming platform supporting both Android and web-based infotainment systems, a few car models, including Hyundai, Polestar, and China’s BYD, will soon provide GeForce Now’s PC game library in addition to your devices.
