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NVIDIA’s new ‘GeForce Now RTX 3080’ streams video games at 1440p and 120 fps

Written by Jeff Lampkin

NVIDIA has unveiled its next-generation cloud gaming platform known as GeForce Now RTX 3080 with “desktop-class latency” and 1440p gaming at as much as 120 fps on PC or Mac. The service is powered by a brand new gaming supercomputer known as the GeForce Now SuperPod and prices double the worth of the present Precedence tier.

The SuperPod is “probably the most highly effective gaming supercomputer ever constructed,” in accordance with NVIDIA, delivering 39,200 TFLOPS, 11,477, 760 CUDA Cores and eight,960 CPU Cores. NVIDIA stated it would present an expertise equal to 35 TFLOPs, or triple the Xbox Collection X, roughly equal to a PC with an 8-core CPU, 28GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and a PCI-GEN4 SSD. 

NVIDIA launches GeForce Now RTX 3080-class gaming at up to 1440p 120fps

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As such, you will see 1440p gaming at as much as 120fps on a Mac or PC, and even 4K HDR on a protect, although NVIDIA did not point out the refresh charge for the latter. It will additionally assist 120 fps on cell, “supporting next-gen 120Hz shows,” the corporate stated. By comparability, the GeForce Now Precedence tier is restricted to 1080p at 60 fps, with adaptive VSync obtainable within the newest replace.

It is also promising a “click-to-pixel” latency right down to 56 milliseconds, due to methods like adaptive sync that reduces buffering, supposedly beating different providers and even native, devoted PCs. Nonetheless, that is primarily based on a 15 millisecond spherical journey delay (RTD) to the GeForce Now information heart, one thing that clearly is determined by your web supplier and the place you are positioned. 

NVIDIA’s claims apart, it is clearly a velocity improve over the present GeForce Precedence tier, whether or not you are on a cell gadget or PC. There is a worth to pay for that velocity, although. The GeForce Now premium tier began at $50 per yr and not too long ago doubled to $100, which is already a reasonably large ask. However the RTX 3080 tier is $100 for six months (round double the worth) “in restricted portions,” with Founders and precedence early entry beginning at present. If it lives as much as the claims, it is cheaper than shopping for a brand new PC, in any case. 

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