MS xCloud joins Google in thier use of AMD GPU's for Game Streaming

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This is an old article but i think its passed us by.

Recently Google announced they will be using AMD GPU's for their game streaming service "Stadia", it seems Microsoft are already there also using AMD's GPU's for xCloud.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/microsoft-project-xcloud-game-streaming-service

I guess it makes sense given that Microsoft already have a long history of using AMD's hardware in their game consoles, with the next generation using Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000) processors and Navi GPU's, Microsoft claim Project Scarlett will be four times more powerful than the xBox One X.

This is great news for AMD who have landed yet another major contract and revenue stream to keep up their R&D to continue the good work they started with Ryzen back in 2016.

Edit: It seems that Sony are partnering with Microsoft to use their AMD based Azure cloud service.

https://medium.com/swlh/explaining-the-sony-and-microsoft-cloud-partnership-e1dbbe5f4b8b

 

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Nvidia seems to be intent on pricing themselves out of the market and scaring everyone away with that CEO.

It's hard to tell where they are going. They ramped up prices to the point where people stopped buying their stuff. So what now? They don't seem to have any direction to go in except backwards, which will annoy shareholders.

When you become so big and greedy a few hundred million is no longer worth your time people take you for a difficult snob.