![]() February 2020: GeForce Now launches out of beta into full release, with a free tier and a "founders" tier that offers longer play sessions and ray tracing.December 2019: Capcom games are removed from GeForce Now.January 2018: Nvidia launches PC beta of GeForce Now.The earlier planned pricing scheme never returns. It supports about 100 games, but you have to own the games on a platform like Steam to play them. October 2017: GeForce Now launches a free beta, but only for Mac."Renting" a more powerful server with a GTX 1080 would cost more than renting one with a GTX 1060. January 2017: Nvidia announces GeForce Now for Mac and PC, planning to charge per minute of gameplay.Nvidia opens GFN up to developers to join the library. Newer games can also be bought through the service, and come with a code for the corresponding store (like Steam). 2016: GeForce Now for the Shield costs $8 per month with a limited selection of free games.This would eventually morph into GeForce Now. Games library is limited to a select few licensed for the service. 2014: Nvidia starts GRID streaming service to stream games to its Shield handheld and tablet.Installing the game you want to play is instant, presumably because Nvidia has all of GFN's supported games accessible in cloud storage already. Once logged in, it will only give you permission to install and play the game you chose to launch-you can't switch to any other game in your library. When you select a game you own and launch it, GeForce Now connects you to a remote computer and asks you to login to Steam. To run games through GeForce Now, you download a launcher and have to search for games by name to add to your library. Or you can become a "Founders" member for $5 per month, which gets you priority access, longer sessions and the ability to turn on ray tracing in games that support it. That means you can only play games for an hour at a time, and may have to wait in a queue to reconnect as GFN grows more popular. ![]() It's free to sign up for "standard access" and one hour play sessions. GFN is only for streaming games you already own from a powerful cloud computer. Right now, you can't buy any games from Nvidia. That's not very impressive when you factor in the MSRPs, but real-world pricing makes things more positive for the 40 Ti 8GB since the 30 Ti tend to retail at $360 and $430 respectively.GeForce Now is a streaming service, but it doesn't work like Netflix, or even Google Stadia. ![]() The 40 Ti have about 85% of the cores of the 30 Ti, so we might see the newer cards outpace the older ones by about 10% to 20%. It has the exact same core count as the 3070 and it's roughly 30% faster. ![]() It's hard to say how these cards will perform relative to other RTX 40 GPUs and their RTX 30 predecessors, but the 4070 might give us a good idea. Additionally, the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB carries a $100 premium for having all that extra memory. ![]() Nvidia is even cutting the PCIe lanes in half from 16 to 8, which is unlikely to impact performance but demonstrates that Nvidia is trying to save every penny it can with these cards. Core counts are down by roughly 500 cores when comparing these cards to their predecessors, and memory bandwidth has also been substantially downgraded. When all the specifications are laid out in a table, it's hard to feel like the RTX 40 Ti are bargains. ![]()
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