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Nvidia Announces New High-Performance Membership Tier for GeForce NOW

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Nvidia today announced the launch of a new higher-tier membership for its streaming gaming platform GeForce NOW, allowing gamers to get access to improved performance.

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According to Nvidia, the GeForce NOW RTX 3080 membership provides gamers with access to the "greatest-ever generational leap in GeForce history," offering up the highest resolutions and fastest frame rates, plus low latency. Nvidia says the new gaming experience rivals the latest game consoles.

Each GeForce NOW cloud SuperPOD includes more than 1000 GPUs that deliver over 39 petaflops of graphics horsepower. Nvidia says each instance is 35 teraflops of performance, nearly 3x that of an Xbox Series X.

With the new membership tier, games can run at up to 1440p on Macs and PCs, and at up to 120 frames per second.

Access to the GeForce NOW RTX 3080 membership is priced at $99.99 for six months, which is introductory pricing. GeForce NOW founders and Priority members have early access to pre-order starting today, and pre-orders will open more broadly to all gamers later in the month. Quantities are limited.

At $99.99 for six months, access to the RTX 3080 rigs costs twice as much as the $49.99 priority membership. Those who choose the highest-tier plan get longer session allowances in addition to the higher quality streaming.

GeForce NOW offers several free games, but for the most part, titles need to be purchased to be played. GeForce NOW provides the gaming platform, but gamers need to supply their own games.

Article Link: Nvidia Announces New High-Performance Membership Tier for GeForce NOW
 
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hmm now I am thinking should I get this when I get my M1MAX? I wonder how the gaming experience will be and which games I could actually play with the M1MAX. hmmm
 
12643 said:
Brilliant. Convert a one time GPU purchase into recurring revenue. The gamers are now being played, instead of the games.
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Let's see - a 3080 card, which cannot be found at retail, is going for around $1500 USD on eBay. So it would take 7.5 years to spend as much on this service as your "one time GPU purchase". That also doesn't include ANY OTHER computer parts, such as the CPU, motherboard, RAM, storage, power supply, etc.

This is actually pretty good value given the market. But your snark is noted.
 
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A 3080 actually should be able to do 4k, this sounds more like they're running 3070's and calling it a 3080 membership. Have run the GeForce now service about 6 months ago, the xbox service (prior to its latest update) and Stadia, just to try them out. Stadia was, by far, the best user experience.

GeForce Now promises to run your purchased steam games of which I had a good amount, but I found all but 3 very old ones of mine were locked out (the game owners didn't like what nVidia was doing). Outside of that for a free game like Fortnite (not a Steam game per se), the GeForce Now app couldn't launch it through Steam it had to launch the Epic store app which could then launch Fortnite and other games having their own store would probably require this too - it had a very cobbled together feel to it.

I've saw remarks that the M1Max could do as well or slightly better than a PS5 GPU wise that should put it around a GeForce 2070 (a little lower than 3070) or so.
 
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Sasparilla said:
A 3080 actually should be able to do 4k, this sounds more like they're running 3070's and calling it a 3080 membership. Have run the GeForce now service about 6 months ago, the xbox service (prior to its latest update) and Stadia, just to try them out. Stadia was, by far, the best user experience.

GeForce Now promises to run your purchased steam games of which I had a good amount, but I found all but 3 very old ones of mine were locked out (the game owners didn't like what nVidia was doing). Outside of that for a free game like Fortnite (not a Steam game per se), the GeForce Now app couldn't launch it through Steam it had to launch the Epic store app which could then launch Fortnite and other games having their own store would probably require this too - it had a very cobbled together feel to it.
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Nvidia apparently caved to avoid potential legal issues even though from my layman perspective I should have the right to play all my games I've purchased on a remote system but we'll see what happens going forward. It is indeed a shame though
 
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Sasparilla said:
A 3080 actually should be able to do 4k, this sounds more like they're running 3070's and calling it a 3080 membership.
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I think this has more to do with bandwidth and latency than with the GPU on the server side.

Sasparilla said:
GeForce Now promises to run your purchased steam games of which I had a good amount, but I found all but 3 very old ones of mine were locked out (the game owners didn't like what nVidia was doing)
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Indeed, that's the biggest issue with GeForce Now. I gave it a try when it left beta, but cancelled only a month or two later, since I could only play a fraction of my games.

Sasparilla said:
I've saw remarks that the M1Max could do as well or slightly better than a PS5 GPU wise that should put it around a GeForce 2070 (a little lower than 3070) or so.
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That's certainly a lot of use when there are no recent, high-production value games to run natively under macOS...
 
Sasparilla said:
A 3080 actually should be able to do 4k, this sounds more like they're running 3070's and calling it a 3080 membership. Have run the GeForce now service about 6 months ago, the xbox service (prior to its latest update) and Stadia, just to try them out. Stadia was, by far, the best user experience.

GeForce Now promises to run your purchased steam games of which I had a good amount, but I found all but 3 very old ones of mine were locked out (the game owners didn't like what nVidia was doing). Outside of that for a free game like Fortnite (not a Steam game per se), the GeForce Now app couldn't launch it through Steam it had to launch the Epic store app which could then launch Fortnite and other games having their own store would probably require this too - it had a very cobbled together feel to it.

I've saw remarks that the M1Max could do as well or slightly better than a PS5 GPU wise that should put it around a GeForce 2070 (a little lower than 3070) or so.
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But isn't the way Geforce Now works is basically a streaming service? In other words, there's no rendering whatsoever on your device. So network bandwidth/latency is a much bigger issue at higher resolutions.
 
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12643 said:
Brilliant. Convert a one time GPU purchase into recurring revenue. The gamers are now being played, instead of the games.
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Just want to complain. Yeah we understand. Its the present and lots of ppl cant afford the upfront cost for a PC, also can be streamed from pretty much any device.
 
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riptidewahoo said:
Let's see - a 3080 card, which cannot be found at retail, is going for around $1500 USD on eBay. So it would take 7.5 years to spend as much on this service as your "one time GPU purchase". That also doesn't include ANY OTHER computer parts, such as the CPU, motherboard, RAM, storage, power supply, etc.

This is actually pretty good value given the market. But your snark is noted.
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I guess the whole idea is now, everything is turning into a subscription. Of course subscriptions are great values, or else no one would subscribe.

But it's the idea that this is now another 'forever' subscription. Let's apply this to everything: TVs, Microwaves, Dishes, etc...
 
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now i see it said:
Computing as a subscription is not far behind
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It's pretty much here already.

And, on that note, I remember hearing that IBM had 'upgrades' they could sell installations for some models of their mainframes. You entered a code into the console, and '*POOF*, 'Instant Upgrade'. Shops seemed fine with that ability. Oh, of course IBM charged for that code, I'm sure...

I'm sure subscription computing is going to happen, just like pay toilets. I wonder if it will take as long to kill that idea as it took to kill the later.
 
12643 said:
Brilliant. Convert a one time GPU purchase into recurring revenue. The gamers are now being played, instead of the games.
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Well, it depends. If you purchase a high-end GPU that stays off for 90% of the day because you play for no more than 2 hours daily, then, it could make sense, depending on pricing. For hardcore gamers that spend the day and night in their cave playing and eating Doritos, it probably makes sense to purchase the hardware.
 
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FSMBP said:
I guess the whole idea is now, everything is turning into a subscription. Of course subscriptions are great values, or else no one would subscribe.

But it's the idea that this is now another 'forever' subscription. Let's apply this to everything: TVs, Microwaves, Dishes, etc...
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It's not as simple as that. If the content you want is only on subscription it doesn't necessarily prove that the subscription is great value.
 
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