Nvidia GeForce Now RTX 5080 (Blackwell) Review: RTX 5080 in a MacBook
He opens the support doors. Instead of games installed and ready to leave, you can install them on a GeForce Now instance (the computer you are connected for game streaming). Even massive games of more than 100 GB settle in a few minutes. It turns out that Nvidia has a fairly fast internet in GeForce Now data centers.
I2P is only working with Steam Games right now, but Nvidia has built it unique. With a ultimate performance or subscription, you get 100 GB of storage in a single session. You can install a game and play it, but when you close the session, your game disappears (games with cloud backups are still in synchronization). You can buy an additional persistent storage, and here is what they cost: 200 GB for $ 3 per month, 500 GB for $ 5 per month and 1 TB for $ 8 per month.
This additional storage does not give you more space. It is persistent, so your installed games will continue between the sessions. Nvidia even keeps your backups safe in persistent storage if the title you play does not support the backups of the steam cloud. It’s like having your own little (but extremely powerful) game pc in the cloud.
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GeForce now via Jacob Roach
Nvidia has, slowly but surely, cemented GeForce now as a de facto cloud game service. The Google Stadia have failed, Luna of Amazon slowly flopped, and the efforts of Microsoft and Sony, although in progress, are largely focused on players who already have a console. GeForce has now persisted, and after testing the blackwell update, it’s easy to see why.
There is a ruthless chase with the game support, which is only reinforced by I2P titles. Steam is there, but Nvidia also supports most games on Microsoft PC Game Pass, as well as a wide bunch of titles on the Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect and the EA application. There is even a native application of steam game.
Cloud game problems always apply. Especially on Wi-Fi, I occasionally stumbled on abandoned packets and brief and intense stutters. In such a case, while playing Silk songI was halfway through a dense platform section when the loss of packages sent me to my death. There are certain realities of streaming a game on the Internet that an RTX 5080 cannot solve.
But this is an upgrade that always shows how GeForce has now arrived. No, I can’t pile up an RTX 5080 in a MacBook. But GeForce is getting closer now.
