Nvidia is bringing High Performance Gaming to your Ultraportable for a Subscription fee

[AlTech]

A while ago, Nvidia announced their cloud service called Geforce Now. The premise was that Nvidia could do the heavy lifting with their massive Data Centers and Render Farms with butt tons of their GPUs for a subscription. Previously it was limited to their Android TV console but they have opened this up to PC and Mac users for underpowered devices.

 

Nvidia has said that they're going to be offering different pricing tiers for different performance levels and will be offering GTX 1060 performance and GTX 1080 performance streamed to your underpowered PC.

 

The performance and latency depends on your internet connection and thus, anybody with a not so great internet connection need not apply.

 

This will need loads of Internet bandwidth and if you're broadband plan is limited then this won't work for you either.

 

This generation, Nvidia will be using Geforce GTX 1060s and Geforce GTX 1080s in their datacenters instead of their previous custom Grid Kepler based GPUs.

 

Pricing is not known at this time.

 

It will be available on Windows and Mac and it will be available in March 2017 presumably through Geforce Experience (although Nvidia need to release a Mac GFE client for it to work on Mac).

 

 

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Until now, NVIDIA has been pushing its Geforce Now cloud-based gaming service through its first-party Shield hardware running Android. As of CES 2017, however that's going to change. Starting in March, Geforce Now will be on the PC and Mac.

The service will launch in early access first to those in the U.S. followed by a full rollout later in the spring. After a free trial you'll pay for access, with differing tiers for GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 owners, for example.

But this is being pitched at integrated graphics users, aka those found on Ultrabooks or the likes of the Surface Pro 4. It gives access to your games in the cloud, allowing you to hook into services like Steam, UPlay, Origin and so on, and allows you to stream them to your device.

The heavy lifting is done by NVIDIAs Pascal-powered data centers, so in theory as long as you have a good internet connection you'll be able to play Doom on your Surface. When you load up Geforce Now on your machine you'll be taken to a virtual desktop where you can access your game services and play just as you would natively on your own PC.

 

Opinion:

AMD needs to get on this kind of action and try to offer this kind of system but offer more levels of performance. I do think that people may dislike this idea and I have a strong suspicion that it'll be worth it in the long run to continue to buy GPUs instead of using this service.

 

http://www.windowscentral.com/nvidia-geforce-now-bringing-demand-gaming-your-pc

 

UPDATE:

 

Apparently a GTX 1060 will cost $25 for 20 hours and a GTX 1080 will cost $25 for 10 hours.

[Dabombinable]

And I can still do the same thing using my desktop+laptop+1TB of internet. And the only cost is the data. That's of course when I'm not doing it for multiplayer on older games (which always reuire me to disable Turbo core on the A8 4555M since it really fucks with performance in anything that isn't basic web browsing-it causes TDP throttling of the entire chip)

[Deli]

Now the ISP will have more excuses to throttle the connection, even if the customers have "unlimited" plans.

[Humbug]

I saw a video interview of Gabe Newell a couple years ago he had an interesting opinion on cloud gaming. What he thought was that if we had started out with cloud gaming we would definitely not see it as some utopia. He thinks that with increasing and cheaper computing power we would then have seen the utopia as a world in which we have powerful end clients (like current PC/console gaming) and a low latency distributed experience with less reliance on server processing.

 

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“Cloud gaming works until it starts to be successful – at which point, it falls over,” Newell explained during his DICE keynote in Las Vegas. “All the spreadsheets ignore the producing levels that consumer networks use. When everyone starts using a continuous network connection in order to get their applications, prices are going to go through the roof.”

“Let’s say our industry had never done consoles or consumer clients. Even if we just started out with cloud gaming, you’d actually go in the direction of pushing intelligence out to the edge of the network, simply because it’s a great way of caching and saving you on network resources.”

So basically, he thinks that cloud is, by nature, more of a hassle, more expensive, and less efficient on an individual basis. And the more widespread it becomes, the more those issues will rain on its parade. But it’s not just an issue of lost frames and heightened blood pressure. Valve’s infernal future labs have run the numbers, and they’ve found that hardware will eventually be even more dependent on a hiccup-free experience than we are.

“Another point is that cloud gaming puts latency compensation in the wrong place: in the center of the network rather than the edge,” Newell explained. “And one thing we believe is that latency sensitivity is actually going to increase in the future. The ability to do local high-speed processing will become more important than it is now. For now, people think of it as the customer experiencing lag during play, but in the future, there’ll be a bunch of hardware that has even more sensitivity than a human does. So putting functionality at the center of the network will actually be impossible.”

All that said, Valve isn’t writing off cloud gaming entirely. But it’s a sideshow. The main event, so far as Newell and co are concerned, will remain safely inside our machines. Not on some server in space or something.

“I think there’s a place for cloud gaming, but more as a feature or for things like demos and spectating. But not as core architecture.”

 

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/07/future-imperfect-valve-still-not-sold-on-cloud-gaming/

[NumLock21]

It's $25 for 20 hours. Was mentioned in the ces keynote by nvidia man himself.

[SteveGrabowski0]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

It's $25 for 20 hours. Was mentioned in the ces keynote by nvidia man himself.

And $25 for 10 hours if you want to use GTX 1080s.

[AlTech]

2 minutes ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

And $25 for 10 hours if you want to use GTX 1080s.

WTF......

[NumLock21]

11 minutes ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

And $25 for 10 hours if you want to use GTX 1080s.

5 hours on a GTX1080Ti

 

 

[AlTech]

20 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

It's $25 for 20 hours. Was mentioned in the ces keynote by nvidia man himself.

source or it never happened.

[Mister Snow]

15 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

source or it never happened.

Here you go:

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/242165-nvidia-announced-geforce-now-streaming-service-pcs-pay-per-minute-gaming

Not from CES directly but reputable source nonetheless.

[NumLock21]

21 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

source or it never happened.

Go watch the keynote

[SteveGrabowski0]

38 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

WTF......

The $25 for 20 hours is to stream from a 1060 based system 

[ivan134]

1st their garbage starter kit that doesn't save you any money and now this?

[ThinkWithPortals]

What's an uktraportable?

 

 

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[Deli]

GTX1060? the 3GB or the 6Gb version??

 

Now we know why Nvidia sells the cut-down version of GP106 while still calls it GTX1060.

[captain cactus]

20 hours for $25. So that's $25 for, lets face it, a week at most for 1060 performance ignoring latency and all that jazz. $100 a month. So in two-and-a-half months you've spend the same amount of money as if you'd bought the damn card itself, after which it's only losing you money by the minute.

[Deli]

5 minutes ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

The $25 for 20 hours is to stream from a 1060 based system 

1060 3GB

[NumLock21]

 

Credit: anandtech.com

[Deli]

2 minutes ago, lots of unexplainable lag said:

20 hours for $25. So that's $25 for, lets face it, a week at most for 1060 performance ignoring latency and all that jazz. $100 a month. So in two-and-a-half months you've spend the same amount of money as if you'd bought the damn card itself, after which it's only losing you money by the minute.

Nvidia knows how to milk N-sheeps.

[VerticalDiscussions]

This is stupid AF!

 

Desperate people are the only ones who would want to use such service or if theyr kids are trying to convince theyr parents this method is cheaper on the long run when compared to saving up for a 1060 or 1080 .-.

 

Nvidia is stupid AF!

 

[NumLock21]

Comments on some of them say it's worth it, in op's source. Failed at elementary school level math.

[AlTech]

20 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

What's an uktraportable?

 

 

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Dude, An Uktraportable is like an Ultraportable but with desktop cpus dude!

 

/s

 

Thanks for pointing this out.

 

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Comments on some of them say it's worth it, in op's source. Failed at elementary school level math.

Paying for 200 hours of a GTX 1060 in cloud gaming would cost as much as buying a GTX 1060 and keeping it for one year (minus power draw).

 

7 minutes ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

This is stupid AF!

 

Desperate people are the only ones who would want to use such service or if theyr kids are trying to convince theyr parents this method is cheaper on the long run when compared to saving up for a 1060 or 1080 .-.

 

Nvidia is stupid AF!

 

I know right! #BePartOfTheRebellion

 

20 minutes ago, Deli said:

1060 3GB

that would be such a troll move from Nvidia but it seems like the kind of bullshit that they're capable of.

 

25 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

1st their garbage starter kit that doesn't save you any money and now this?

Ngreedia. The way YOU'RE Meant to be Played^TM

[AlTech]

13 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Comments on some of them say it's worth it, in op's source. Failed at elementary school level math.

If you literally play less than 5 hours per week then it MIGHT be worth it.

[VerticalDiscussions]

8 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Ngreedia. The way YOU'RE Meant to be Played^TM

You mean the way your meant to be robbed :D?

[Sunako]

It looks like you don't need to own any of the games they just come with the service so this is were most of the cost is most likely coming from.