It’s good to see Nvidia listen, though it’s a bummer that the capability is locked to the priciest subscription tier alone. Eisler said that latter benefit is a common request from users. You’ll also unlock longer eight-hour-straight gaming sessions, as well as the ability to save your graphics settings across sessions, rather than defaulting to an Nvidia-recommended configuration. If you’re paying for an RTX 3080 in the cloud, you’ll always be playing on an RTX 3080 in the cloud. Unlike the other tiers, you won’t bump down to a lower-spec’d virtual PC if you’re playing a lesser-powered game. While he acknowledged that customers might see the occasional short weight-for example, when a hot new online game launches-the company will actively manage the number of RTX 3080 subscriptions and virtual PCs available. While the free and standard tiers of GeForce Now handle overcapacity by dropping players into a queue system, Nvidia cloud VP Phil Eisler says “no wait is the goal” for RTX 3080 subscribers.
Subscribing to the RTX 3080 tier unlocks more benefits, too. Cloud adaptive sync sounds exciting on paper, but the proof will be in the pudding when GeForce Now’s RTX 3080s fire up. It doesn’t work quite the same as G-Sync though while G-Sync and other adaptive sync monitors smooth things out by matching your display speed to your GPU’s output, GeForce Now’s new adaptive sync technology matches the output of the server frame captures with your client’s frame displays at either 60Hz or 120Hz. Nvidia is also swiping a page from its G-Sync experience to offer an adaptive sync display option to all GFN users to increase gameplay smoothness, regardless of what type of monitor you’re using.
In fact, the Nvidia graphic above deals with that very issue in that very game, and how latency should be much improved when it’s running at 120 frames per second from a remote RTX 3080. Playing at such high framerates should hopefully alleviate some of the latency issues that sometimes pop up with cloud gaming services, as highlighted by when my colleague Ben Patterson dropped GFN for a dusty PlayStation 4 to play Destiny 2.
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