Hands-on: Nvidia’s Geforce is now RTX 5080 than I hope

Today, NVIDIA’s latest gaming GPU in the cloud launches boot-up its $20 per month GeForce now uses RTX 5080 graphics for the ultimate cloud gaming service for featured games, and has more options. At the same time, it also adds thousands of titles to Bring-ing’s own gaming service by letting you install them yourself while launching the 90Hz version of Steam Deck App, its 90Hz version, and also by installing 360Hz mode yourself, thus adding thousands of titles to Bring-ing’s own gaming service by having you install them yourself. And more.

Do all these changes make GeForce fundamentally better? Absolutely, then Already goodBut, while playing the game, I can’t escape the idea: NVIDIA doesn’t charge an extra fee for most updates because they’re a little overwhelmed right now.

Don’t get me wrong, there is always welcome more power, and more power is what I see. exist Assassin’s Creed Shadow and Cyber​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Cyber​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​NVIDIA’s built-in benchmark for the cloud-based RTX 5080 is one of the few benchmarks I’ve been able to run, with 25% to 50% gains on older RTX 4080 servers at 4K resolution.

This is enough to play the former on a 4K TV in a near-largest setting, while the latter is 4K if You either sacrifice ray tracing or have NVIDIA’s DLSS 4 framework generation add an extra fake frame to each real frame to smooth things out. mine Sepunk The frame rate is better than what we see on physical cards!

But I discovered this very quickly, Just like that physical RTX 5080the company’s marketing moves faster than its technology actually runs.

As of the launch of RTX 5080 games, I have a hard time finding them and can’t tell them at the moment until back You launch Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 or Shadow of tombstone It is still running on a 4080-level GPU.

To get the huge frame speed gains NVIDIA gets from the RTX 5080, you need to have its servers generate three fake frames for each real server – it greatly slows down the game as you combine it with the lag of cloud gaming, and the game reacts to your actions. I don’t need to spend a long time trying 3x and 4x framework gen Indiana Jones and the Big Circle Discovering this is a starter for me: the game portrays Indy at his peak, but he suddenly feels like a dull old man.

But I will admit that at least when plugging into my desktop directly over Ethernet, I actually feel like it works on a cloud connection.

On the faster side, My colleague Tom Warren Try it Overwatch 2 In NVIDIA’s new 360Hz mode, he said he found it “easy to compete with,” but unfortunately, the mode is limited to 1080p resolution. “Streaming at 1080p on a 4K display is not the best,” he said.

It is important to note that in esports games, buying a 360Hz display is usually for better reaction times than the smooth frame rate itself, while Nvidia keeps you far from the 360Hz (2.78ms) reaction times in this way. But NVIDIA claims it does offer 360fps, and able Let you down to 30ms, which is incredible for cloud gaming and should be better than the console in the living room. exist Overwatch 2 For example, NVIDIA says it only adds 1.8ms of encoding, 0.3ms of decoding, and 9ms of game engine activity and rendering, which is the time when you press a button and send data to Nvidia’s servers over the Internet and return.

Meanwhile, while the 90Hz Steam Deck App is an upgrade on the 90Hz screen of the unquestioned Steam Deck OLED, which smooths the experience overall, I was surprised to find that the RTX 5080 doesn’t necessarily improve performance. exist Claire Momod: Adventure 33, The RTX 5080 isn’t enough to race on 4K at 4K on Max settings, so I tested it at 1440p and it’s roughly the same frame rate (lowest) as which GPU I’m using 55fps (large outdoor warfare) to 90fps (lowest in Indoor environments).

(Yes, I do recommend streaming at a higher resolution than the Steam Deck’s 800p screen, as oversampling makes images clearer, clearer, and fewer cloud gaming artifacts.)

Last but not least, I tested NVIDIA’s new “install to play” feature, which should greatly increase the number of games you can play on GeForce now by letting you install any game you choose to Valve Steam Cloud Playeven if Nvidia didn’t take the time to test it. There, GeForce now basically just revealed a copy of its Steam, so you can install and launch any game that wasn’t supported before:

These games are even faster than I thought: 17 seconds of installation time is 17 seconds ACES and Adventure; Install 8GB in 53 seconds 1000x protestersa game I haven’t thought of all year round, installed in 1 minute and 22 seconds worth of 2.2GB Old Republic Knightsand install it in 2 minutes and 9 seconds Sleeping dog 10.5GB of data.

But while installing to playback is fast and it’s quick to get a fee for a fee to avoid reinstalling them per session (continuous storage is $3, $5 for 200GB, $5 for 500GB, $8 per month), it hasn’t filled most of the GEForce right now, and now what I’m hoping for is most of the gap in GEForce.

It only added 21 games to my GeForce NOW library. Without installing, I can only access 162 through 472 Steam games in Nvidia’s cloud, and this number only sprouts slightly. Now I can play Deus Ex and System Shock 2 and Tomb Raider Anniversary and Golden idol Of course, the game, but in reality, I’m just playing locally on the steam deck. However, if I only had a phone or Chromebook, it might be different. Maybe we will really see the advantage of moving forward because it makes NVIDIA add new titles faster than before.

only Don’t expect Sony or rock stars Bring their PC games to the service.

Finally, while I hope this is a symptom of testing the server before release, I encountered an unusual error testing GFN RTX 5080 and installing to playback. Customers sometimes forget my streaming settings; Geforce now sometimes thinks I’m trying to log in from Virginia, and Steam blocks that login. I’ve had other login issues, occasionally black screens, synchronizing game releases with Steam and Uplay, and found that after I clicked on them, some games will no longer launch immediately, and so on.

If you see the same problem, or find that installing to the game brings amazing new gems, let me know!