GeForce Now will actually take advantage of that panel, delivering up to 1440p at 120 fps. Maybe you've got a budget machine, with a low-end discrete GPU in it-something like a GTX 1650-but with a 120Hz screen attached to it. It means that any laptop can be a powerful gaming laptop so long as its connected network is strong enough. It's basically available to almost any networked device, from phones to set top boxes, to Chromebooks, laptops, and even Macs. With the remote power of the RTX 3080 GPU at its fingertips, suddenly my $150 Shield device is an all-conquering 4K gaming powerhouse.īut GeForce Now isn't something restricted to the Shield by any means. It's also the easiest method of actually getting a reliable HDR experience from a PC game. Knocking the settings down to 1440p, however, and the game still looks incredible, and runs brilliantly on the Shield. That game is a resource hog on any system, and trying to run it at 4K with ray tracing, even with DLSS enabled, meant that frame rates weren't really high enough to deliver a latency level I was comfortable with. My upload speed is miserly, yet that still made no difference to whatever latency is lying there.Īnd Cyberpunk 2077 is now, y'know, playable at high settings, though that's one place where I definitely noticed some lag. Even streaming a 4K game across a 5GHz network I saw no hint that my 100Mbps network was struggling with the effort. With DLSS enabled the game isn't actually rendering at 3840 x 2160, but the joy of the latest version of Nvidia's upscaler is that it still looks pin-sharp outputting at a 4K resolution on a native 4K panel.Īnd it's still smooth. Control is now crisper, with more detail in the ray traced reflections of every shiny corridor floor of the Oldest House. Suddenly my $150 Shield device is an all-conquering 4K gaming powerhouse.īut now I've gotten to test the RTX 3080 update, which has recently been made available to the London-based EU West server, and the step-up in fidelity is tangible on a 4K HDR display. Part of that silky frame rate is down to the recent addition of Adaptive Sync technology, which synchronises the delivery of individual frames from the server to the client in order to reduce buffering and dropped or repeated frames.
My Shield isn't wired in, either, making it all the more impressive that it seemed as smooth and as responsive as playing on my Series X console while I was playing over a 5GHz WiFi connection.
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