Nvidia launching "Grid" game streaming service

[Orangey]

http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/nvidia-to-launch-grid-the-netflix-of-pc-gaming/

I thought Grid was a HPC project using Teslas? Anyway:

The obvious comparison to be made here is to Sony’s Playstation Now, which utilizes the same chips Nvidia made for the Playstation 3. On paper, Grid should end up being a much more capable service, the servers are powered by a new chip, which manages to output 2448 GFlops of compute power, making it around 12 times more powerful than Playstation Now which only manages 192 GFlops. Additionally, load times have been halved, averaging out at 23 seconds and every title will run at 60 frames per second.

Of course though, this is all based on Nvidia’s own numbers, so we’ll have to wait and see how it performs in the wild.

There is a caveat though, the service will be exclusive to Shield tablet and handheld owners for the foreseeable future.

Those in the US will gain access later this month, while UK Shield owners will be granted access in December. The rest of Europe will be following shortly in Q1. Those in Asia will have to wait until Q2.

Note the bit about chips making it GPU-related, mods.