{"id":374380,"date":"2021-11-30T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-forefront-of-visuals-and-price-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:00:36","slug":"the-forefront-of-visuals-and-price-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-forefront-of-visuals-and-price-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Forefront of Visuals \u2026 and Price \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b75ed2bece\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b75ed2bece\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-forefront-of-visuals-and-price-review-geek\/#A_Cliff-Face_to_Entry\" >A Cliff-Face to Entry<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-forefront-of-visuals-and-price-review-geek\/#The_Streaming_Is_Great_in_the_Right_Games\" >The Streaming Is Great, in the Right Games<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-forefront-of-visuals-and-price-review-geek\/#Expensive_but_Does_What_It_Claims\" >Expensive, but Does What It Claims<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;#The Forefront of Visuals \u2026 and Price \u2013 Review Geek&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content-area\">\n<figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage wp-image-103978 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2021\/11\/f3ccdd27-4.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2021\/11\/f3ccdd27-4.jpg?width=1200 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 400w, 1200w\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2021\/11\/f3ccdd27-4.jpg?width=1200\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-credittext=\"Remedy Entertainment, Nvidia\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\">Remedy Entertainment, Nvidia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nvidia is expanding its GeForce Now streaming service with the power of its latest 30-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> GPUs\u2014the 3080, to be precise. Not only does that mean better performance, but it also unlocks RTX enhancements like ray tracing to anyone with a good enough internet connection. But at a very steep price.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Cliff-Face_to_Entry\"><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" name=\"autotoc_anchor_0\">A Cliff-Face to Entry<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The new RTX-enabled tier of GeForce Now costs roughly $200 a year, but that will be in increments of $99.00 every six months. There\u2019s no other option for the new RTX tier, but hopefully, that\u2019s just because it\u2019s new, and we\u2019ll see some form of a monthly plan like the other tiers of GeForce Now eventually. Because for now, Nvidia\u2019s expecting you to be pretty invested even to try it out.<\/p>\n<p>Games don\u2019t come with that subscription either. You don\u2019t purchase games through GeForce Now at all, it taps into your Steam and Epic Games Store accounts to bring the games you\u2019ve already bought from those storefronts to the cloud. At least, the ones Nvidia\u2019s approved\/managed to get licensed for the service. For example, any Xbox Studios games are a no show, likely because Microsoft is also developing a game streaming platform\u2014I hope you weren\u2019t looking forward to playing the new <em>Halo\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>Forza\u00a0<\/em>on this.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103979 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2021\/11\/799bad5a-4.jpg\" alt=\"Nvidia GeForce Now advertisement\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-credittext=\"Nvidia\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\">Nvidia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On top of that, there aren\u2019t that many games supported by the service that are RTX-enabled. It\u2019s 26 according to the GeForce Now client, but I\u2019d make the argument that there\u2019s at least a little bit of filler there looking at the library considering one of them is a poker game. If you like poker, that\u2019s cool, but it\u2019s not exactly pushing the boundaries of graphical fidelity.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mean to make this sound bad right off the bat, but rather I want you to know what you\u2019re in for financially before even getting started. You\u2019ll need to buy your games (although Nvidia did recently announce that RTX-tier subscribers would get a free copy of the\u00a0<em>Crysis: Remastered\u00a0<\/em>trilogy), pay the high subscription price, and have a device to play it on. Not that the last one is hard, though, GeForce Now is available on your PC, Mac, Android, iOS, and Nvidia Shield, so you have plenty of options. Regardless, you need to put a lot of money in to get anything out of this service.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re here to know whether or not the service is worth it, that\u2019s a hard thing to say except for a particular type of person. If you want to see how the streaming runs, though, well then, let\u2019s jump in.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Streaming_Is_Great_in_the_Right_Games\"><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" name=\"autotoc_anchor_1\">The Streaming Is Great, in the Right Games<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Much of what I\u2019m about to talk about will depend a lot on where you live, which is unfortunately true of any game streaming. GeForce Now itself and the new 3080 streaming version is available in many countries, but you need a pretty good internet connection for it to work well. Fortunately, this is easy to test; install the GeForce Now client and run the connection test in the settings menu. It\u2019ll tell you how much latency you can expect, what server is closest to you, and whether or not that server offers 3080 streaming. Pretty smooth.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103980 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2021\/11\/d0096ec6-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-credittext=\"Remedy Entertainment\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\">Remedy Entertainment<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Right off the bat, I wanted to test out\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=204a528a336ede4177fff0d84a044482&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com%2Fapp%2F870780%2FControl_Ultimate_Edition\"><em>Control<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em>Now,\u00a0<em>Control\u00a0<\/em>isn\u2019t the fanciest game around, but it\u2019s a good-looking game, and more importantly, it has fantastic support for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/346949\/what-is-ray-tracing\/\">ray tracing<\/a>. I could access my Epic Games cloud save no problem, and jumping into the game with the new visuals was great. Ray tracing worked like a charm, I was able to run the game at max settings, and I never experienced a frame drop in my time of playing. The latency wasn\u2019t very noticeable, but while\u00a0<em>Control <\/em>is an\u00a0action game, it isn\u2019t very demanding when it comes to reaction times.<\/p>\n<p>However, it let the RTX mode show off a bit, and I was impressed by the results. I expected some graphical hijinks to occur just due to the 3080 streaming being so new, but things are very smooth. As I mentioned earlier, there aren\u2019t many games with RTX-enabled, so after I got my fill here, I also wanted to try some more demanding on the latency side of things.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103981 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2021\/11\/032b2cc9-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-credittext=\"The Game Bakers\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\">The Game Bakers<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=204a528a336ede4177fff0d84a044482&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com%2Fapp%2F423230%2FFuri%2F\">Furi<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is a fast-paced boss rush game where every second counts, and not surprisingly, GeForce NOW does not cope well with it regardless of the new GPU. While delayed inputs in\u00a0<em>Control\u00a0<\/em>is a minor thing that doesn\u2019t matter,\u00a0<em>Furi\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>twitchy action gameplay made the discrepancy very clear, and performance (both frame rate and latency) suffered greatly. I\u2019m not saying it would be impossible to adjust, but it\u2019s far from ideal.<\/p>\n<p>This service, and all game streaming services for that matter, can\u2019t handle games like this. Any game that requires precise inputs, whether it\u2019s a competitive online game or an intense single-player one, just isn\u2019t going to work well. The tech isn\u2019t there, and while that\u2019s fine, I still get annoyed that these games are placed next to all the other games on the service that perform much better.<\/p>\n<p>This is more about how GeForce Now is presented to you than the actual performance, but I think it should be made more clear\u00a0that games like\u00a0<em>Furi\u00a0<\/em>aren\u2019t a good fit. If you were to subscribe to GeForce Now and you don\u2019t have an extensive collection of PC games already purchased, the only options you would have are free-to-play games\u2014many of which are online games that require quick reaction times.<\/p>\n<p>An unfortunate combo, and it goes to show that while the tech behind GeForce Now is great, what it\u2019s missing is a game library. Supporting more games that can use the fancy new RTX streaming will also be crucial in the future.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Expensive_but_Does_What_It_Claims\"><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" name=\"autotoc_anchor_2\">Expensive, but Does What It Claims<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103984 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/p\/uploads\/2021\/11\/156005c5-4.jpg\" alt=\"GeForce Now &quot;The Future is Now&quot; advertisement\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-credittext=\"Nvidia\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\">Nvidia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite wrapping up on a sour note, the new 3080 streaming is, without a doubt, impressive. The performance and visuals you get are incredible, and it helps breathe new life into your existing PC game collection if your computer doesn\u2019t have the latest hardware. And perhaps that is GeForce Now RTX\u2019s greatest use case: someone who\u2019s into PC gaming enough to want to buy a 3080, or any of the new 30-series cards for that matter, but can\u2019t due to the ongoing stock issues.<\/p>\n<p>The service gives you a taste of those new cards, albeit at a premium and with the general downsides that any game streaming platform has. Honestly, $99 every six months isn\u2019t a small sum for a new way to play games you already own, but it is significantly more expensive than services like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stadia.google.com\/\">Google Stadia<\/a> (which costs $9.99 a month and includes a library of games). And without a free trial or even the option to only pay for one month of the service, you have to be very committed to this.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve written off game streaming for now due to latency issues, or you just flat-out don\u2019t have a good internet connection for it, this isn\u2019t going to change your mind. But if it interests you, and you\u2019re willing to foot the bill for six months, then GeForce Now RTX is one of the best options for game streaming right now as far as performance goes. Just make sure you have enough PC games between Steam and Epic games that will benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>For everyone else, though, this is nothing more than an exciting step for game streaming that will hopefully get better as time goes on. The user experience is already pretty solid, so with a more accessible price, this could become a great option in the coming years. 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