Geforce now ultimate - most impressive!

[mrk]

May as well buy a 5090 for infinite hours

 

[Defy Belief]

NVIDIA GeForce NOW with 100 hour limit - VideoCardz.com

GeForce NOW to get hour limits starting from 2025 Buried in a new announcement is NVIDIA's policy change on GeForce NOW streaming. This service, available

videocardz.com

Nvidia squeezes GeForce Now users for more cash with 100-hour monthly playtime limit — Nvidia will charge $5.99 for 15 extra hours for the Ultimate tier and $2.99 for the Performance tier

Nvidia says only 6% of its player base will be affected by the 100-hour monthly allowance.

www.tomshardware.com

Knew this was coming and more to come... Why physical media/hardware must never die as this is how the digital only companies will exploit their customers.

100 hours today will turn to 50 next year and so on. This is the perfect example of why I dislike these services as they exploit their customers while killing off what they could easily access before (physical media and real hardware GPU's).

To be fair, i'm pretty shocked (Or jealous ) that 6% of their userbase can play for 3 hours+ a day for an entire month! Whilst it's a cap that's probably my yearly gaming time I get nowadays

 

[cyclonus10]

Geforce Now......the more you play the more you pay

 

[Poneros]

The streaming costs are actually insane ($0.5/hr/user, last I saw), so I'm not surprised they keep pulling back the GFN offer. It will get much worse than this. Once again showcasing how the real winners are PC users.

throwback to the costs:

GeForce Now RTX 4080 upgrade at no extra cost. Insane value?

Especially with the current energy prices. How can Nvidia afford to do this? At £15 a month if you game 2.5 hours a day due to energy costs GeForce Now becomes essentially free and anything above that you actually save money while also getting a 4080 rig for free. Are we traditional native...

forums.overclockers.co.uk

 

[Rob_B]

100hrs limit x 50c per hour means some users will be costing them money. Even 2hrs a day which doesn't seem crazy for people paying for a game streaming service loses money.
If thats a real cost per user per hour I get why theyre limiting it

 

[Tinek]

100hrs limit x 50c per hour means some users will be costing them money. Even 2hrs a day which doesn't seem crazy for people paying for a game streaming service loses money.
If thats a real cost per user per hour I get why theyre limiting it

Big data centers do not pay the same for electricity we do. They often build them near cheap energy sources (e.g. nuclear) and get wholesale prices etc. We can't use any "civilian" numbers to calculate their running cost as otherwise it would all look completely unprofitable for every company - and yet, somehow it's not.

 

[Rob_B]

Yeah I've not seen the 50c/hr figure myself and it does seem high-ish but I'd only be guessing on cost, I know what AWS charge for certain GPU instances but I know it's probably not comparable to that.

 

[no_1_dave]

I like it because like they say, it's better than rising the price for everybody just to accommodate 6% of their users.
If you fall in that 6% you can buy more time, or maybe consider owning your own rig.

I only see the benefit of G-Force Now as a stop gap between systems or to use when you're away from home.

 

[[timko]]

I also use GFNow at home during the times when it's actually hot here in the UK. House is warm enough as it is without me dumping more heat into trying to my gaming on.

 

[ltron]

Interesting upgrades were announced today (coming in September): an 'RTX 5080' with 48GB of VRAM; much better image quality in games with lots of foliage using the new cinematic streaming quality mode (with the bitrate increasing from a maximum of 75 Mbps to 100 Mbps among many other improvements). Also, Zen 5 CPUs and the ability to immediately play games that have been opted-in by the developer without waiting for Nvidia to add them.

Even as a PC hardware enthusiast I have been very impressed with GFN Ultimate and this could take it to the next level.

More details here:

NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture Comes to GeForce NOW

NVIDIA today announced that the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture is coming to GeForce NOW™, marking the cloud gaming platform’s biggest update yet.

nvidianews.nvidia.com

 

[mrk]

What's the point in having 48GB of VRAM on a streaming service, not like you can use that VRAM for anything else, let alone on games that a 5080 would otherwise be able to leverage.

 

[ltron]

What's the point in having 48GB of VRAM on a streaming service, not like you can use that VRAM for anything else, let alone on games that a 5080 would otherwise be able to leverage.

They claim it's for AI-related improvements in the future, but it's still nice to have because 16GB is a joke on an RTX 5080 class card and should be the bare minimum.