Nvidia GeForce Now vs building a PC

[Totempole]

Tested out the beta, worked well. Being a Macbook user, this is pretty much the only way for me to game

Does latency play a role in the responsiveness of the games?

It was always a head-scratcher for me that RAIN would consider offering such a service, being wireless as opposed to fixed fibre, yet everyone I've heard from says the experience over RAIN was decent.

Even in the best case scenario I would expect that there would at least be a minimal amount of input lag, or am I missing something?

 

[SeRpEnT]

Nvidia GeForce Now much cheaper than building a PC

Gaming on Nvidia's GeForce Now service can save you almost R12,000 in the long run compared to building an equivalent gaming PC, a MyBroadband analysis has revealed.

We compared the price of building GeForce Now Priority and Ultimate equivalent gaming rigs to the cost of paying the respective subscriptions for a typical gaming PC's lifespan.

Please don't forget to add 15% VAT to your USD pricing.
Your yank pricing excludes any taxes which as we know will be added for RSA in the form of VAT.

 

[Kosmik]

Does latency play a role in the responsiveness of the games?

It was always a head-scratcher for me that RAIN would consider offering such a service, being wireless as opposed to fixed fibre, yet everyone I've heard from says the experience over RAIN was decent.

Even in the best case scenario I would expect that there would at least be a minimal amount of input lag, or am I missing something?

Latency for me was around 22-25ms. Input lag was non-existant except for cases where I had blips in my connectivity but like 99.9999999998% no problem.

The service is offered by Rain as a partner for billing. You don't need to be on rain network to use. I used my Vox fibre or whereever I was. The fact you can seamlessly move between devices and locations was actually really awesome.

For example, my kids game on a old laptop and my main gaming machine. So I can geforcenow on my work laptop ( with no concerns around installing or security ) while they are using my machine and then just switch back to my machine when they in bed or doing something else. Or even go mobile ( although I hadn't tested that ).

 

[Ashez7]

Latency for me was around 22-25ms. Input lag was non-existant except for cases where I had blips in my connectivity but like 99.9999999998% no problem.

The service is offered by Rain as a partner for billing. You don't need to be on rain network to use. I used my Vox fibre or whereever I was. The fact you can seamlessly move between devices and locations was actually really awesome.

For example, my kids game on a old laptop and my main gaming machine. So I can geforcenow on my work laptop ( with no concerns around installing or security ) while they are using my machine and then just switch back to my machine when they in bed or doing something else. Or even go mobile ( although I hadn't tested that ).

Tell me any chance you were paly some Apex? How was the latency? I really think this is great especially if you have older hardware. From what I read you only get maximum of 60fps i take it as well so would not be best for competitive shooters but anything else it would be perfect for that only needs 60fps.

 

[Gambit]

Does latency play a role in the responsiveness of the games?

It was always a head-scratcher for me that RAIN would consider offering such a service, being wireless as opposed to fixed fibre, yet everyone I've heard from says the experience over RAIN was decent.

Even in the best case scenario I would expect that there would at least be a minimal amount of input lag, or am I missing something?

You don't need to be a RAIN 5G/LTE subscriber to use the GeForce now service, I am not. They are hosting the Geforce Now service in their data centre and allowing anyone to sign up. I played using my Cool Ideas/Vuma fibre line and the latency didn't appear to be an issue. I felt it was very responsive but I'm only a casual gamer so maybe a competitive gamer will be annoyed. It was a legit way for a Mac user to play games that were usually out of reach before.

 

[joewashere]

Does latency play a role in the responsiveness of the games?

It was always a head-scratcher for me that RAIN would consider offering such a service, being wireless as opposed to fixed fibre, yet everyone I've heard from says the experience over RAIN was decent.

Even in the best case scenario I would expect that there would at least be a minimal amount of input lag, or am I missing something?

There is definitely input lag but it isn’t as bad as I expected. At 60fps it feels like 30fps to me. It’s fine. Impressive even, considering that the game is being streamed.

 

[Kosmik]

Tell me any chance you were paly some Apex? How was the latency? I really think this is great especially if you have older hardware. From what I read you only get maximum of 60fps i take it as well so would not be best for competitive shooters but anything else it would be perfect for that only needs 60fps.

Not apex but did play some bf2042.

 

[Sparky_za]

You don't need to be a RAIN 5G/LTE subscriber to use the GeForce now service, I am not. They are hosting the Geforce Now service in their data centre and allowing anyone to sign up. I played using my Cool Ideas/Vuma fibre line and the latency didn't appear to be an issue. I felt it was very responsive but I'm only a casual gamer so maybe a competitive gamer will be annoyed. It was a legit way for a Mac user to play games that were usually out of reach before.

This is quite interesting to me. I travel a fair bit and one of the options I looked at was GeForce Now. Sign up in my home country was straightforward, but as soon as I wanted to use it in any of the other countries I travelled to I could not, with the app sighting geo restrictions, this includes South Africa. Will give it another shot just as a test, but ended up buying a ROG Ally anyway.

 

[Gambit]

This is quite interesting to me. I travel a fair bit and one of the options I looked at was GeForce Now. Sign up in my home country was straightforward, but as soon as I wanted to use it in any of the other countries I travelled to I could not, with the app sighting geo restrictions, this includes South Africa. Will give it another shot just as a test, but ended up buying a ROG Ally anyway.

You will need to wait for them to formally announce that it is publically available before you try it

 

[DapperDanMan]

Update: Article is now obsolete, as subscriptions to the service are now SOLD OUT!