News Nvidia GeForce Now to offer daily rates starting at $3.99 — plus RTX game updates, more AI, G-Sync and more at CES 2024

[Admin]

Nvidia unveiled new software and ecosystem updates at CES 2024, alongside the RTX 40-series Super models, including a daily pass option for GeForce Now, new RTX-enabled games, the potential for AI-powered NPCs, enhanced livestreaming tools, and an enthusiast-class G-Sync OLED display from Alienware.

Nvidia GeForce Now to offer daily rates starting at $3.99 — plus RTX game updates, more AI, G-Sync and more at CES 2024 : Read more

 

[stonecarver]

Nice wright up Jarred.

As much as I hate pay to play services there are lot of pluses with the service.

RTX 4080 going for $1,300.00 to 1,700.00 and were expected to get a new card every 2 years or so.
Every 24 months $2,600. to $3,400.00 to keep doing the GPU bunny hop to stay current.

At $99.00 per every 6 months = $400.00 for the service that same 24 months.

More games than you have time to even play.

And get to mess with there RTX GPU's that are out of price range for lots of us out there.

My kids have something like this on the PS5 and there service.

 

[Giroro]

" Because streamers want to cater to the widest possible audience, they'll often opt for a low 720p60 resolution. "

My understanding is that 720p60 isn't about reaching a wider audience, as the streamer is likely going to max out their bitrate regardless of resolution. I think 720p is used due to a lower impact to the encoding PC, as well as the belief that 720p60 looks the same or better than 1080p60 at Twitch's low 6mbps maximum bitrates compared to YouTube letting you send them >50mbps.

As for why the 5 concurrent stream thing is Nvidia news, I'm unsure. The 2 encoders bit isn't news, and I thought Nvidia lifted their (easily bypassed) Encoding session restriction to 5, like, a year ago. As far as I know, their competitors are still unlimited (but AMD's encoding quality is still lacking).
I guess the new thing is that Twitch will let you send them multiple streams at once? I feel like it should be cheaper for Twitch to just transcode down the higher quality stream compared to putting that burden on it's employees/users and buying all that extra bandwidth. Does the bandwidth going toward lower quality streams get deducted from what you can put toward your regular stream? YouTube goes with the transcode option, at least.

Also, did Twitch massively raise their bandwidth cap for users? Because if not, that "4k60" option on the slide that goes with this is a complete laugh. Because 4k60 at 6000kbps? Come on, are they even letting people try that? If so, why?

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

This doesn't make any sense. If it were, say, $6-10 a week for the Priority Tier it would be perfect for when you went on a trip (assuming the WiFi was decent), but $5 for a day doesn't make sense no matter how you slice it except for creating a product to make the more expensive product look cheaper.