Difference in latency from Steam Link vs Nvidia shield streaming.

[Dionyz]

Anyone know which one is better at streaming? Assuming you have 100 mbps connection.

[Enderman]

i would think shield, since they know exactly what GPU is in the system and its optimized for it

would be nice to see a comparison though @Slick

[DaltonM]

Nvidia streaming will work for Orgin games and stuff.

 

Steam Link uses Steam in Home streaming. The two services are very comparable. But steam link will only work with steam games.

 

But Nvidia works on Android devices through an app called Moonlight. 

 

With steam in home streaming you can add non steam games (in my experience Witcher 3 from GOG) and stream them that way, but again, this only works through SteamOS, Steam Link or a Windows PC.

 

It's not a bad deal to have both services, they're both free. 

[Master Disaster]

Well I've got a Shield TV and the streaming is superb, its barely noticeable and allows me to play pretty much anything. The thing is, you never want to stream the games where you would notice the latency (like twitch shooters and MP shooters etc) anyway as such games need a mouse and keyboard to be even remotely competitive, and yeah I can connect a M&K to my Shield but that defeats the purpose of couch gaming.

I've seen a few videos of Steam Link and it seems to suffer from latency much more than the Shield does but that's anecdotal evidence, I've never actually used a Steam Link.

Remember though Android TV offers much more than just Streaming games, I mean can the Steam Link do 4K Netflix, Kodi, IPlayer, Twitch & YouTube as well as native games that run on the system?

[Dionyz]

This would be a good video for Linus to do.

 

I tried to look for results over the internet, and they seem to not be an comparison. (Other than what one can do vs the other.)

 

But I am looking for the overall performance between both of them. Does one play fallout 4 better than the other?