GeForce Now: A Revolutionary Gaming Experience

As I sat down to test GeForce Now, I was excited to see how this technology would perform on my system. Unfortunately, we couldn't determine which CPU was being used by the service, but I'm fairly certain it's a high-end processor like an Xeon. Ultra HD textures were turned up, and I backed up to run some benchmarks with p40 ultra settings and HD textures enabled. Our results showed a minimum of 43, an average of 56, and a maximum of 79 frames per second.

While these results were impressive, I did expect a bit more performance from this system. It's worth noting that GeForce Now only streams at 60fps, so going over that threshold doesn't make much sense. However, I still wanted to test the service on high settings just to see if we could achieve a constant 60 out of it. With high settings and HD textures disabled, our results improved to a minimum of 49, an average of 62, and a maximum of 86 frames per second.

This highlights that high settings are indeed where GeForce Now really shines, even with lower settings. I was able to run some benchmarks on Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and the results were impressive: Intel Core i5-8500 at 3.5 gigahertz, a workstation CPU; NVIDIA Tesla T10 with 16 GB of RAM; and an average of 65, minimum of 37, and maximum of 90 frames per second. This suggests that streaming games at 60fps at high to very high settings is indeed possible.

However, I couldn't help but think about Red Dead Redemption 2. If it were available on GeForce Now, I would love to test even at medium settings to see what this can do. As it stands, my laptop can barely run some low-end games at 720p 30, let alone 60fps.

Fortunately, streaming to a lower-end device can increase performance significantly. Using the Galaxy Tab S6 with Android 10 and an Xbox controller, I was able to stream Assassin's Creed Odyssey at ultra settings, OpenGL 4.5, and 100 frames per second, even though Wi-Fi wasn't being used. This was made possible by adjusting the sensitivity on my controller.

For those interested in trying GeForce Now, it's available for free with a subscription to Nvidia's service. If you have a decent internet connection, you should be able to stream games at high settings over 60fps. As someone who has tried this service through the beta and public release, I can confidently say that it's been a great experience.

While I wouldn't recommend replacing your gaming PC with GeForce Now (unless you're using an underpowered system), this service is an excellent option for those working with low-end PCs or laptops. It's worth trying out to see if it meets your internet connection requirements and delivers the performance you need.

As I wrapped up my test, I noticed that sometimes different GPUs were being used in GeForce Now, including the P40 and T10. This has led me to question which GPU is actually being used, but overall performance was still decent.

To give readers a better idea of what GeForce Now can do, I decided to stream Metro Exodus on an Nvidia Shield with an Xbox One Bluetooth controller connected to it. The result was stunning: a beautifully rendered game at high settings and 1080p resolution, running smoothly at 100 frames per second. While a keyboard is an option for those who prefer that method of play, the Xbox controller worked just fine.

For readers interested in trying GeForce Now themselves, I recommend signing up with Nvidia's service to give it a try. With decent internet, you should be able to stream games at high settings over 60fps. As someone who has used this service for several months now, I can confidently say that it's been an excellent experience.

In the end, my test of GeForce Now revealed some impressive performance capabilities. Whether you're using a low-end PC or laptop or even a mobile device with Wi-Fi, this service is worth considering if you want to play high-quality games over 60fps without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

To conclude, I would like to thank everyone who watched my video and provided feedback on GeForce Now. If you have any questions about this service or would like to share your own experiences with it, please feel free to do so in the comments section below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys this ETA prime back here again today we're gonna be taking a look at g-force now I'm gonna give you my thoughts some of the downsides and some of the things I hope to see in the future for g-force now and I did plan on making a video on it when it was released but I'm kind of glad I didn't because some publishers have pulled their games from g-force now like Blizzard and Activision we can no longer play Warcraft overwatch or any of the Call of Duty games on GeForce now as it sits at this time but the main thing to keep in mind is g-force now is not a game store you do not buy games directly from Nvidia to play them in g-force now like you would with let's say Google Stadium this actually connects to existing libraries like Steam you play and the epic store and allows you to stream the games you already own on PC to a device and this works on low-end pcs Android phones tablets the Nvidia shield and even Mac but there are some drawbacks and limitations to this they're claiming that they have a library of 1500 games so not every single game that you own is going to be supported in GeForce now at least at the time of making this video and one game that I was really looking forward to playing with GeForce now was Red Dead Redemption but it's not available the other drawback for a lot of people with slow internet is you have to have decent internet for this to work 15 megabits per second for 720p at 60 fps and 25 megabits per second for 1080p at 60fps and to tell you the truth you probably need a little more than that to do 1080p at 60fps so like I mentioned this will work with Android tablets phones at low-end pcs max it'll work with keyboards and controllers it pretty much works just like a remote PC would for PC gaming and there are a ton of games to choose from but GeForce now is definitely not for everybody if you already own a PC that can play your favorite games at 1080p 60fps or even 720p 60fps then this might not be for you so how do you go about getting GeForce now up and running well you need to download the application if you're on the shield that should be pre-installed if you're on an Android device you can get it from Google Play if you're all Mac or Windows you will need to head over to their website I'll leave a link in the description and you need to download their launcher and GeForce now is free to use in a limited capacity so the free version you get standard acts but you can only play for an hour at a time and I'm not sure how long the wait is after that one hour I haven't tested it out the founders Edition is $5 a month you get priority access r-tx on and you get a free 90-day trial I guess you can cancel before then but I have signed up for the founders edition just to give it a try and I will cancel it if I don't use it much within those 90 days and here's the app for PC or Mac I'm running this on a Windows 10 machine it's not the most powerful machine at all and most of the games I can't run at 1080p so this would probably be perfect for me up at the top here we do have some settings our streaming quality we can set it to balanced data saver competitive or we can go custom with it so I want 60fps my resolution I definitely want to go 1080p if I can and it will give us a max bitrate now testing your network is essential you will need to make sure that you have enough bandwidth to run this so you can run the test from here and like I just said you can always test this out for free so with this setup here I am over Wi-Fi on my 5 gigahertz network so bandwidth here required is 15 I measured 50 frame loss 0 to is acceptable and latency 2680 is acceptable so this should be able to stream these games at 1080p 60fps I highly recommend using Ethernet for GeForce now that's just the way to go but if you have a decent router with a 5 gigahertz Network it will get you by but it's not gonna be as good as being wired now in this test here I'm gonna go ahead and use my Wi-Fi just to show you how it acts with that but this is the main interface these are the games I already have in my library I own these games and I can play them right now I own Metro Exodus on the epic store I own rocket League on the steam store and I own this on you play so there are a few different stores to choose from and these are games that I could install on any of my PC's because I already own them but I can stream them here unfortunately we can't just scroll through all 1500 games and search for something we will have to go up here and type in what we want so let's say I want to find The Witcher and I'm gonna add it to my library so I own this game gives me a little warning here I'm gonna click continue and it added it to my library so it's easy to find the games that I want to play in the games that I own from the main menu here so now that they got far cry 5 up and running I'm gonna head over to options under video we should be able to see which GPU this is using and it looks like the nvidia tesla p40 with 24 gigs of VRAM now this is actually the second card that i've seen being used in g-force now the other card is the nvidia tesla r-tx t10 and i guess that's because i have the founders edition we can enable our TX on certain games that support it so I guess that's the card that will be used with our TX supported games but I want to run a benchmark here I want to see how this thing performs unfortunately we can't see which CPU were using but I'm pretty sure it's like a Xeon or something Ultra HD texture is on we're gonna turn this all the way up I'm gonna back up and we'll run this benchmark so for the p40 ultra settings and HD textures on we had a minimum of 43 average of 56 and a maximum of 79 I was actually expecting a little more out of this but you got to keep in mind that g-force now only streams at 60fps so going over that really doesn't make any sense but I did want to go back and test this on high settings just to see if we could get that constant 60 out of this system and with high settings and HD textures off we had a minimum of 49 average of 62 and a maximum of 86 so high settings is really where it's at or even lower so we do get a bit more information in Assassin's Creed Odyssey we can see the CPUs the Intel CC 150 at 3.5 gigahertz this is a workstation CPU and a workstation GPU the Tesla t10 with 16 and 1/2 gigabytes of RAM I'm gonna run this benchmark at very high and see how it performs and it actually did quite well we have an average of 65 minimum of 37 and a maximum of 90 and 9 so streaming these games at 60fps at high to very high settings is totally possible I really wish that Red Dead Redemption 2 was available on this because I would love to test even at medium settings to see what this can do now it looks like there's a few different GPUs being used in GeForce now sometimes when I start it up I have that P 40 sometimes I have that T 10 but overall performance is pretty decent but either way I look at it the laptop I'm streaming from right now can't do any of these games at 720p 30 nevermind 60 1080p so we're definitely getting a big increase in performance streaming to a lower end device and before I wrap this video up I just wanted to show you the streaming on android and using the Galaxy Tab has six I have a little i peg a controller and we're connected to that Tesla t10 with eight gigs around ultra settings 1080p I suggest using something like the Xbox controller but this will get you by I do need to do some adjustments in the settings for the sensitivity but overall this is working really well we're at a hundred FPS ultra settings opengl 4.5 and it's working great over Wi-Fi every once in a while you'll notice and skip here and there and that's one of the big reasons I mentioned use Ethernet if you can but if you're on a mobile device Wi-Fi will work as long as you're connected to a decent router and a five gigahertz network overall I've had a really good experience with g-force now through the beta and even the public release here this is actually Metro Exodus ultra with r-tx on and it looks amazing on this monitor here by the way this is running on the Nvidia shield I'm using an Xbox one Bluetooth controller connected to the shield and I'm able to play it just fine but a keyboard will work if that's what you're into personally I do think it's worth five dollars a month to have kind of a supplementary PC this is not going to replace your gaming PC if you own one but if you're only working with a low-end PC a low-end laptop and Nvidia shield a Mac or even an Android tablet I think this is an awesome option to have the only real advice I could give you is try it out it's free to use you do have to sign up with Nvidia but you don't get charged anything and you can at least check it out and see if it runs on your network so when I was running the benchmarks for Far Cry 5 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey I was using this little laptop it's got 4 gigs of RAM this cost me 230 dollars it's got a Pentium Gold processor built in and by itself it has a hard time even running Minecraft at full speed but with GeForce now I was able to play some triple-a games at high settings over 60fps but in the end the best advice I can give you is to try it out as long as your internet connection meets the requirements you should have a pretty decent time streaming games on GeForce now so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching I just wanted to give you my thoughts on GeForce now and I personally think it's pretty great it's worked great for me but I do have a pretty decent internet connection where I am if you have any questions let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on guys this ETA prime back here again today we're gonna be taking a look at g-force now I'm gonna give you my thoughts some of the downsides and some of the things I hope to see in the future for g-force now and I did plan on making a video on it when it was released but I'm kind of glad I didn't because some publishers have pulled their games from g-force now like Blizzard and Activision we can no longer play Warcraft overwatch or any of the Call of Duty games on GeForce now as it sits at this time but the main thing to keep in mind is g-force now is not a game store you do not buy games directly from Nvidia to play them in g-force now like you would with let's say Google Stadium this actually connects to existing libraries like Steam you play and the epic store and allows you to stream the games you already own on PC to a device and this works on low-end pcs Android phones tablets the Nvidia shield and even Mac but there are some drawbacks and limitations to this they're claiming that they have a library of 1500 games so not every single game that you own is going to be supported in GeForce now at least at the time of making this video and one game that I was really looking forward to playing with GeForce now was Red Dead Redemption but it's not available the other drawback for a lot of people with slow internet is you have to have decent internet for this to work 15 megabits per second for 720p at 60 fps and 25 megabits per second for 1080p at 60fps and to tell you the truth you probably need a little more than that to do 1080p at 60fps so like I mentioned this will work with Android tablets phones at low-end pcs max it'll work with keyboards and controllers it pretty much works just like a remote PC would for PC gaming and there are a ton of games to choose from but GeForce now is definitely not for everybody if you already own a PC that can play your favorite games at 1080p 60fps or even 720p 60fps then this might not be for you so how do you go about getting GeForce now up and running well you need to download the application if you're on the shield that should be pre-installed if you're on an Android device you can get it from Google Play if you're all Mac or Windows you will need to head over to their website I'll leave a link in the description and you need to download their launcher and GeForce now is free to use in a limited capacity so the free version you get standard acts but you can only play for an hour at a time and I'm not sure how long the wait is after that one hour I haven't tested it out the founders Edition is $5 a month you get priority access r-tx on and you get a free 90-day trial I guess you can cancel before then but I have signed up for the founders edition just to give it a try and I will cancel it if I don't use it much within those 90 days and here's the app for PC or Mac I'm running this on a Windows 10 machine it's not the most powerful machine at all and most of the games I can't run at 1080p so this would probably be perfect for me up at the top here we do have some settings our streaming quality we can set it to balanced data saver competitive or we can go custom with it so I want 60fps my resolution I definitely want to go 1080p if I can and it will give us a max bitrate now testing your network is essential you will need to make sure that you have enough bandwidth to run this so you can run the test from here and like I just said you can always test this out for free so with this setup here I am over Wi-Fi on my 5 gigahertz network so bandwidth here required is 15 I measured 50 frame loss 0 to is acceptable and latency 2680 is acceptable so this should be able to stream these games at 1080p 60fps I highly recommend using Ethernet for GeForce now that's just the way to go but if you have a decent router with a 5 gigahertz Network it will get you by but it's not gonna be as good as being wired now in this test here I'm gonna go ahead and use my Wi-Fi just to show you how it acts with that but this is the main interface these are the games I already have in my library I own these games and I can play them right now I own Metro Exodus on the epic store I own rocket League on the steam store and I own this on you play so there are a few different stores to choose from and these are games that I could install on any of my PC's because I already own them but I can stream them here unfortunately we can't just scroll through all 1500 games and search for something we will have to go up here and type in what we want so let's say I want to find The Witcher and I'm gonna add it to my library so I own this game gives me a little warning here I'm gonna click continue and it added it to my library so it's easy to find the games that I want to play in the games that I own from the main menu here so now that they got far cry 5 up and running I'm gonna head over to options under video we should be able to see which GPU this is using and it looks like the nvidia tesla p40 with 24 gigs of VRAM now this is actually the second card that i've seen being used in g-force now the other card is the nvidia tesla r-tx t10 and i guess that's because i have the founders edition we can enable our TX on certain games that support it so I guess that's the card that will be used with our TX supported games but I want to run a benchmark here I want to see how this thing performs unfortunately we can't see which CPU were using but I'm pretty sure it's like a Xeon or something Ultra HD texture is on we're gonna turn this all the way up I'm gonna back up and we'll run this benchmark so for the p40 ultra settings and HD textures on we had a minimum of 43 average of 56 and a maximum of 79 I was actually expecting a little more out of this but you got to keep in mind that g-force now only streams at 60fps so going over that really doesn't make any sense but I did want to go back and test this on high settings just to see if we could get that constant 60 out of this system and with high settings and HD textures off we had a minimum of 49 average of 62 and a maximum of 86 so high settings is really where it's at or even lower so we do get a bit more information in Assassin's Creed Odyssey we can see the CPUs the Intel CC 150 at 3.5 gigahertz this is a workstation CPU and a workstation GPU the Tesla t10 with 16 and 1/2 gigabytes of RAM I'm gonna run this benchmark at very high and see how it performs and it actually did quite well we have an average of 65 minimum of 37 and a maximum of 90 and 9 so streaming these games at 60fps at high to very high settings is totally possible I really wish that Red Dead Redemption 2 was available on this because I would love to test even at medium settings to see what this can do now it looks like there's a few different GPUs being used in GeForce now sometimes when I start it up I have that P 40 sometimes I have that T 10 but overall performance is pretty decent but either way I look at it the laptop I'm streaming from right now can't do any of these games at 720p 30 nevermind 60 1080p so we're definitely getting a big increase in performance streaming to a lower end device and before I wrap this video up I just wanted to show you the streaming on android and using the Galaxy Tab has six I have a little i peg a controller and we're connected to that Tesla t10 with eight gigs around ultra settings 1080p I suggest using something like the Xbox controller but this will get you by I do need to do some adjustments in the settings for the sensitivity but overall this is working really well we're at a hundred FPS ultra settings opengl 4.5 and it's working great over Wi-Fi every once in a while you'll notice and skip here and there and that's one of the big reasons I mentioned use Ethernet if you can but if you're on a mobile device Wi-Fi will work as long as you're connected to a decent router and a five gigahertz network overall I've had a really good experience with g-force now through the beta and even the public release here this is actually Metro Exodus ultra with r-tx on and it looks amazing on this monitor here by the way this is running on the Nvidia shield I'm using an Xbox one Bluetooth controller connected to the shield and I'm able to play it just fine but a keyboard will work if that's what you're into personally I do think it's worth five dollars a month to have kind of a supplementary PC this is not going to replace your gaming PC if you own one but if you're only working with a low-end PC a low-end laptop and Nvidia shield a Mac or even an Android tablet I think this is an awesome option to have the only real advice I could give you is try it out it's free to use you do have to sign up with Nvidia but you don't get charged anything and you can at least check it out and see if it runs on your network so when I was running the benchmarks for Far Cry 5 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey I was using this little laptop it's got 4 gigs of RAM this cost me 230 dollars it's got a Pentium Gold processor built in and by itself it has a hard time even running Minecraft at full speed but with GeForce now I was able to play some triple-a games at high settings over 60fps but in the end the best advice I can give you is to try it out as long as your internet connection meets the requirements you should have a pretty decent time streaming games on GeForce now so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching I just wanted to give you my thoughts on GeForce now and I personally think it's pretty great it's worked great for me but I do have a pretty decent internet connection where I am if you have any questions let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watching\n"