News Rent an RTX 3080 in the Cloud with New GeForce Now Plan

[Admin]

GeForce Now's latest cloud gaming plan lets you use an RTX 3080 for up to eight hours a day.

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[2Be_or_Not2Be]

Well, there's a reason for some of the shortage in GPUs.

 

[TinyFatMan]

Is it a "new strategy" from nVidia (and AMD soon) to artificially create a lack of graphics cards to sell them 5000% more expensive, and therefore accessible to the rich, and that those who cannot afford to rent one card in the "fabulous" cloud?

As if we were not spied on enough, it will add to the infinity of technological means to do so, and of course always make more money to feed the tax havens that are crumbling under the mop or more.

With "FreeToPlay" (PayToWin - making cheating legal) we have killed video games.
Will graphics cards be made accessible only to the rich?
Soon $ 10,000 for an “RTX 4015 MM”?

 

[VforV]

nvidia would make much more money mining with those GPUs than doing this.... just saying...

Of course I would prefer them to be sold at MSRP.

 

[Geezer760]

Who in their right mind would fall for this SCAM, it just show how greedy these people are.

 

[Geezer760]

Is it a "new strategy" from nVidia (and AMD soon) to artificially create a lack of graphics cards to sell them 5000% more expensive, and therefore accessible to the rich, and that those who cannot afford to rent one card in the "fabulous" cloud?

As if we were not spied on enough, it will add to the infinity of technological means to do so, and of course always make more money to feed the tax havens that are crumbling under the mop or more.

With "FreeToPlay" (PayToWin - making cheating legal) we have killed video games.
Will graphics cards be made accessible only to the rich?
Soon $ 10,000 for an “RTX 4015 MM”?

EXACTLY.

 

[dalauder]

Is it a "new strategy" from nVidia (and AMD soon) to artificially create a lack of graphics cards to sell them 5000% more expensive, and therefore accessible to the rich, and that those who cannot afford to rent one card in the "fabulous" cloud?

As if we were not spied on enough, it will add to the infinity of technological means to do so, and of course always make more money to feed the tax havens that are crumbling under the mop or more.

With "FreeToPlay" (PayToWin - making cheating legal) we have killed video games.
Will graphics cards be made accessible only to the rich?
Soon $ 10,000 for an “RTX 4015 MM”?

Video games are only dead if you require a fancy new graphics card. I'm happy with my RX 480, especially since everything since Battlefield 3 has had good enough graphics.

 

[USAFRet]

Of course I would prefer them to be sold at MSRP.

They were.
Scalpers got to them first, and now want to sell to you at a big profit.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Well it's really not a SCAM if you think about it, it's basically like leasing a car. A 3080 MSRPs at $700, so if you "rent" one for $200 a year, it's 3.5 years before you hit that break even point. If you go by the inflated prices these days it's 5 years before you hit break even, about the time when most people will have replaced their GPU. You lose the resale value, but you don't have to worry about it dying, that's the tradeoff of a lease for being able to access it on any PC with the internet requirement.

 

[Phaaze88]

Well, as long as I continue to live out in the countryside, this will never be an option.

Who in their right mind would fall for this SCAM, it just show how greedy these people are.

MANY people would jump on this. We can't give them the benefit of the doubt anymore.

 

[dalauder]

They were.
Scalpers got to them first, and now want to sell to you at a big profit.

I don't understand why the cards are sold so low to scalpers. Why not just charge 5x as much at MSRP so that scalpers get nothing?

 

[PapaCrazy]

Well, as long as I continue to live out in the countryside, this will never be an option.

I doubt even the fastest of connections will overcome the latency. It's one thing to stream a source of data that remains constant, like a film. But content that must react in real time to your finger's every twitch... I just don't see it.

There's been a push for cloud services for years now. Yet music still sounds better playing off my own drives and backups take a fraction of the time when done locally.

 

[Phaaze88]

I doubt even the fastest of connections will overcome the latency. It's one thing to stream a source of data that remains constant, like a film. But content that must react in real time to your finger's every twitch... I just don't see it.

There's been a push for cloud services for years now. Yet music still sounds better playing off my own drives and backups take a fraction of the time when done locally.

If one is trying to play competitively - cloud may never get up to par. Those folks should stick with their PCs.
Everyone else with a decent connection should be able to have an enjoyable experience.

 

[Grindathotte]

I wonder if this will ever work for VR or if the latency would just make you sick?

 

[brian532]

Well it's really not a SCAM if you think about it, it's basically like leasing a car. A 3080 MSRPs at $700, so if you "rent" one for $200 a year, it's 3.5 years before you hit that break even point. If you go by the inflated prices these days it's 5 years before you hit break even, about the time when most people will have replaced their GPU. You lose the resale value, but you don't have to worry about it dying, that's the tradeoff of a lease for being able to access it on any PC with the internet requirement.

Your analogy is correct but you need to start with the cost of a power house gaming PC ($3,000 to $4,000), not just the price of the video card. When using this service my 10 year old BASIC laptop, integrated graphics, can blaze like a top of the line gaming pc at +60FPS and ultra settings with games it normally can't even load. Additionaly I am sure the service will routinely update their hardware, another cost and hassle I don't need to have. The problem is the game has to be in THEIR library as well as you owing it. I was enjoying the recent Doom game on ultra until Bethesda pulled it to give Stadia exclusivity. It is like video streaming services. To get all the titles you want you need to have multiple subscriptions. If they could make it so I load ANY of my games into their servers I would get a lifetime subscription and never buy another piece of PC hardware.

 

[brian532]

I doubt even the fastest of connections will overcome the latency. It's one thing to stream a source of data that remains constant, like a film. But content that must react in real time to your finger's every twitch... I just don't see it.

There's been a push for cloud services for years now. Yet music still sounds better playing off my own drives and backups take a fraction of the time when done locally.

Try it first. I didn't believe it would work either. I can't notice any delay. I am sure players who compete in E sports leagues would be bothered but I don't think the majority will ever notice it.

 

[sizzling]

Try it first. I didn't believe it would work either. I can't notice any delay. I am sure players who compete in E sports leagues would be bothered but I don't think the majority will ever notice it.

I have tried streaming gaming services and also streaming across my own network and the latency is apparent. While many games it is not a deal breaker it is still there and detracts from the overall experience.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Hahahahahahaha!!!!! Anyone who goes for this deserves what they get

 

[Phaaze88]

Hahahahahahaha!!!!! Anyone who goes for this deserves what they get

Some people seem to have forgotten - perhaps, even forgiven - what slowly happened over time as we moved away from physical copies... it ended up biting us - as a whole - in the butt.
I see this as no different from that and all the blasted subscription plans out there that companies want people to sign up for.

 

[pan6467]

Video games are only dead if you require a fancy new graphics card. I'm happy with my RX 480, especially since everything since Battlefield 3 has had good enough graphics.

I wholeheartedly agree. My RX580 8GB can pretty much handle anything I throw at it. I grew up way back in the day of 8bit-16bit Atari/Colecovision games, so 1080, for this 50+ yr old is fine. Now IF I were a kid again, yeah I would want the biggest and best, just as I did back then. From my standpoint, I don't need it, from a parent's standpoint that wants to treat their kids but can't afford the latest GPU this kind of makes sense it could be the kids "allowance" for doing their chores.

Another issue I see is, what happens when you reach that 8 hour mark and you are in the middle of heavy combat, do they just all of a sudden cut you off and say, "aw well" and you lose or hope that the rig you have can handle it from there? Which makes no sense because if the rig you have could "handle it" then why do you need the subscription to begin with?

 

[dalauder]

I wholeheartedly agree. My RX580 8GB can pretty much handle anything I throw at it. I grew up way back in the day of 8bit-16bit Atari/Colecovision games, so 1080, for this 50+ yr old is fine. Now IF I were a kid again, yeah I would want the biggest and best, just as I did back then. From my standpoint, I don't need it, from a parent's standpoint that wants to treat their kids but can't afford the latest GPU this kind of makes sense it could be the kids "allowance" for doing their chores.

I am confused when kids receive $500 graphics cards and video game systems. I got to use my parents' old computer. If I wanted a video game system, I saved up for six months or more, used birthday money, and bought something kind of old.

 

[pan6467]

I am confused when kids receive $500 graphics cards and video game systems. I got to use my parents' old computer. If I wanted a video game system, I saved up for six months or more, used birthday money, and bought something kind of old.

I agree wholeheartedly. I grew up in a well off white suburbia part of Ohio, where MOST of my classmates got whatever they wanted (and today they yell the loudest about people who receive help from the government, I guess when your parents hand you EVERYTHING as a kid it's somehow different). I on the other hand came from parents who grew up poor and worked hard and taught my sister and I the value of $$. Weekends from the age of 10- graduation if I wanted something I was out doing surveys with my dad as a rodsman (I remember working MONTHS to get $100 to buy a 6 month CD, which paid me $6 whopping at the end of those 6 months and buying my ghetto blaster with it. My first car came as payment from someone we did a survey for. The only thing I am bitter about is how many of those kids that got everything handed to them cry about government helping people and how they continue the cycle by giving their kids everything.