We don’t really know what to make of Nvidia’s communication. We’ve already talked about the company’s lunatic statements regarding availability, mining and so on. Now Nvidia has a solution for those who are suffering from GPU shortage. The chameleon has just announced Nvidia a new tier for its GeForce Now service that will allow you to access low-latency “SuperPODs” that combine multiple AMD Threadripper Pro processors with about 1,000 GPUs offering performance equivalent to RTX 3080 GPUs. As you can see, the proposed solution is Cloud Gaming. With a broadband connection, for the greens, the experience will be the same as playing on local hardware. Better yet, the system allows you to use almost any device you have on hand for a quick gaming session.
The new premium tier of Geforce Now is available to founding and priority members in North America and Western Europe. The company says memberships will be limited at launch, but the service will become available to most users in the U.S. next month and in Europe later in December.
Each SuperPOD slice combines eight AMD Threadripper processor cores with 28 gigabytes of DDR4-3200 memory, a PCIe 4.0 SSD and a GA102 chip that delivers 35 teraflops of GPU performance. That’s about three times the performance of an Xbox Series X console. The other argument used by Nvidia is latency. The SuperPOD slice will offer a comparable latency of about 60 ms. If these claims are true, it would also make GeForce Now up to three times faster than xCloud. Again, this is purely a marketing argument, as the debate is obviously about the quality of your Internet connection and how close you are to the nearest SuperPOD servers…Have you seen any near you? But by betting to death on its Geforce Now infrastructure, does Nvidia really care about the PC world or is it saving itself a way out?
