Article: Nvidia investing in cloud based GPU streaming technology using current Kepler tech

Tea_Bag · 15 May 2012 at 21:48

Nvidia announced today that it has created unique features in its Kepler-based graphics chips that could make cloud-based gaming much more practical. The company has also formed partnerships with companies such as Gaikai to make cloud games much cheaper and more appealing to gamers and maybe even eliminate the need to create a new generation of consoles.

full article here:

www.venturebeat.com/2012/05/15/nvidia-tailors-its-graphics-chip-for-cloud-based-gaming/

first thing to come to mind is latency, but they claim it'll be less than 10ms.

its interesting and impressive, but it looks like a bleak future for gaming in the coming years.

tigerblood · 15 May 2012 at 22:15

I had a 3month trial of onlive before i got my new graphics card, it's pretty impressive and using a controller managed to compensate for the lag.

If they can get input lag to 10ms and stream at 1080p 60fps all using a cheap £100 set top box then the future is anything but bleak

Cleeecooo · 15 May 2012 at 22:18

I don't understand, are Nvidia basically making a console?

bhavv · 15 May 2012 at 22:20

I hate it when all these companies keep on ignoring that lots of people still have to play games on pathetically poor internet speeds like me.

OptimaLnrg · 15 May 2012 at 22:26

UK internet infrastructure is abysmal compared to other european countries.

Tea_Bag · 15 May 2012 at 22:32

you think UK is bad, try Ireland. or south Africa. OMFG.

Its depressing when you need to rent GPU power. where's the fun in that?

MichaelM · 15 May 2012 at 22:41

I know it's more of a console market thing and it makes little sense, but all I can think about is calling up tech support and asking them to upgrade the cooling and overclock the hardware for me. :confused:

Krono5 · 15 May 2012 at 22:41

You think UK is bad? Try Spain, Portugal and to a lesser extent Italy. If anyones ever played Spanish people in a fast paced game like an FPS you'll know they warp all over the place and practically unhittable because their internet is so bad.

Cloud gaming would be ok for single player if they can get latency down to >20ms and virgin media et al actually provided a competent service, but for multiplayer games anything extra above the normal >50ms pings you get playing other uk players and most of Europe would take it over the edge.

bhavv · 15 May 2012 at 22:44

Tea_Bag said:
you think UK is bad, try Ireland. or south Africa. OMFG.

Its depressing when you need to rent GPU power. where's the fun in that?

Cant be worse than mine surely, at least I hope not.

Pay for 20 Mb/s, get 1/10th of that:

My T mobile is faster, but I've had to connect to sky for a bit as my sim card decided to die.

Tea_Bag · 15 May 2012 at 22:49

bhavv said:
Cant be worse than mine surely, at least I hope not.

Pay for 20 Mb/s, get 1/10th of that:

My T mobile is faster, but I've had to connect to sky for a bit as my sim card decided to die.

in SA you get a 6mb line with a 5gb cap.

but yea your speed is disgraceful. surely its a break in contract and you can move to someone better?

bhavv · 15 May 2012 at 22:53

Tea_Bag said:
in SA you get a 6mb line with a 5gb cap.

but yea your speed is disgraceful. surely its a break in contract and you can move to someone better?

Its not my Internet actually, this is my internet:

Not really much better, but normally its over 3 meg at least.

McBain · 15 May 2012 at 23:07

bhavv said:
I hate it when all these companies keep on ignoring that lots of people still have to play games on pathetically poor internet speeds like me.

Definitely this. It's the same with the "Youview" proposal.

"Oh well, you only need 5Mbps to get a consistent service"

Yeah that's great, but how many people actually get 5Mb. Half the population?

Edit: Here we go, a third struggle to get 5Mb. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17130367

MeMeMeMe · 16 May 2012 at 03:25

McBain said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17130367

Shocking article! 49% of households get less than the national average speed. It's a disgrace!

*looks for a sarcasm emoticon, but then realises it's not needed. After all, when has anyone on the internet failed to spot sarcasm?*

Krono5 · 16 May 2012 at 04:06

The thing is, 5Mb is perfectly fine even with more than one person using it as long as the connections good. I remember when I used to have 4Mb years ago with Telewest and that used to be better for gaming than my current 20mb connection since it switched over to VM. Line quality has definately decreased in recent years even if overall speeds are much faster.

bhavv · 16 May 2012 at 04:34

5 Mb would be fine if it actually delivered 5 Mb!

Much better than 20 Mb which only delivers <3.

On 3's One Plan you can get speeds over 10 Mb/s. Im still hoping that T mobile will eventually uncap their full monty plan, until they do I'm limited to 3.6 Mb download, 512 kb upload ... and its surprisingly still faster than 20 Mb Sky Broadband!

psychodil · 16 May 2012 at 07:00

Yeah I've got up to 8mb broadband, I actually get 2.7 download. Not even fast enough to stream 3d content directly to my tv. That's the price I pay for moving to a village I guess.

This cloud based Kepler isn't going to be much fun over locking, count me out nvidia .

KillBoY_UK · 16 May 2012 at 09:17

New Tesla Cards K10 (dual GK104) and K20 (GK110)

McBain · 16 May 2012 at 12:57

MeMeMeMe said:
Shocking article! 49% of households get less than the national average speed. It's a disgrace!

*looks for a sarcasm emoticon, but then realises it's not needed. After all, when has anyone on the internet failed to spot sarcasm?*

I agree, hardly "Shocking" or a "disgrace" however it's highlighting that products are released, or are in the process of being released that require a minimum connectivity speed and a large portion don't actually have it.

horrorwood · 16 May 2012 at 13:31

bhavv said:
5 Mb would be fine if it actually delivered 5 Mb!

Much better than 20 Mb which only delivers <3.

On 3's One Plan you can get speeds over 10 Mb/s. Im still hoping that T mobile will eventually uncap their full monty plan, until they do I'm limited to 3.6 Mb download, 512 kb upload ... and its surprisingly still faster than 20 Mb Sky Broadband!

I assume you do not have fibre at your exchange?

Amraam · 16 May 2012 at 19:10

bhavv said:
Cant be worse than mine surely, at least I hope not.

Pay for 20 Mb/s, get 1/10th of that:

My T mobile is faster, but I've had to connect to sky for a bit as my sim card decided to die.

Ouch, hate to say it but really you should move to Virgin. I pay for 60 (free upgrade) and I regularly hit 63MBit using speedtest.net and PCPitstop.

EDIT: in hindsight that's a rather stupid suggestion as that assumes you have it in your area.