![]() On both Founders Edition cards, you'll need to plug the card in via a 16-pin 12VHPWR connector, though you'll only need two 8-pin leads to plug into an adapter in the case of the RTX 4070 whereas the RTX 4080 will require you to adapt three 8-pin leads into a single cable. There is also the matter of the power connector. The RTX 4080 also weighs substantially more at 4.66 lbs, compared to the RTX 4070's 2.25 lbs. Put simply, the RTX 4070 is going to be much more easily slotted into your case than the massive RTX 4080. The RTX 4070 is a dual slot card measuring 9.5 inches long by 4.5 inches tall, whereas the RTX 4080 is a triple-slot card measuring a full 12 inches long and 5.4 inches tall. And I've been a regular user of Nvidia's local-streaming GameStream, with the lowest latency you could hope for.As far as design goes, there isn't too much that differentiates the two Founders Edition cards, other than their sizes. I mostly stuck to games in my library that worked on GeForce Now, though I briefly dipped into Destiny 2 multiplayer to see how remote multiplayer felt. I previously had a Founders Edition account that provided access to less-powerful card types ( GTX 1080 and, on occasion, GTX 2060) and was familiar with the games' performance on my local RTX 3050. In other words, I'm a PC gaming enthusiast living with a pedestrian mix of hardware-potentially just the type GeForce Now is targeting. My personal graphics card is an RTX 3050, a budget-minded model that couldn't hope to hit 60 fps at 1440p on ultra or max settings on our test games. I didn't dig much into Reflex mode, the latency-reducing setting aimed at competitive games like Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny 2, and others ( The Verge review leans into that aspect heavily). I tend toward single-player games, not twitchy multiplayer shooters. My monitor's refresh rate only ("only") goes to 144 Hz (i.e., 144 fps). What follows is a first impression of the service, more like a test drive than a full review covering every facet. Test-driving a monster GPU across the Northeast But if you have wider bandwidth on your Internet connection than in budgeting for a single piece of a gaming PC, or want to test the waters of max-spec PC gaming, GeForce Now Ultimate is mighty intriguing. Not everybody has the high-refresh monitor, or the interest in GeForce Now's particular games library, to need the Ultimate tier. ![]() When playing on these lower-res or lower-refresh screens, an Ultimate stream trades impressive fidelity for stability. ![]() I almost felt bad when Cyberpunk 2077 on an Nvidia Shield benchmarked 90 fps at 4K on my 60 Hz TV (save those extra frames for lean times!). I logged a few impressive-looking battles in Marvel's Midnight Suns, sitting on a couch with an iPad and a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. I got to play Hitman 3 on a MacBook Air (through a monitor) at rates higher than 60 frames per second, at medium-to-high graphics. That's especially true if you want the flexibility to bring your games to screens outside your main gaming system. That might be a steep price tag for a service that mostly makes you buy your games, but given the 4080's $1,200 price, the rent-versus-buy question is worth considering at this level. It replaces the previous RTX 3080 option with the next generation's chipset for the same price ($20 per month, $99 for six months). It's easy to lay at least the same kind of praise on the new Ultimate tier. Ultimate streaming can also be "better than local," such as when it lets you stream a AAA, ray-traced game on a low-powered laptop, tablet, or TV with no console attached.Īrs had previously described our GeForce Now 3080 experience as "dreamy" and called the performance "a white-hot stunner that rivals the computing power you can muster" with the same RTX 3080 card in your PC. If I hadn't been hyper-conscious of frame numbers and hiccups, I could have been tricked into thinking the remote 4080 rig was local. I tested out the Ultimate tier, powered by Nvidia's RTX 4080 "SuperPODs, " for a week on a server set up for reviewer early access. Cloud-based gaming service GeForce Now's new Ultimate tier is rolling out today, promising a series of adjectives about game streaming that might have seemed impossible just a few years ago: high-resolution, ray-traced, AI-upscaled, low-latency, high-refresh-rate, and even competition-ready. ![]()
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