Hands-on: Nvidia’s GeForce Now RTX 5080 is better and worse than I hoped

Today, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud – upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it’s also adding thousands more titles to the bring-your-own-games service by letting you install them yourself, while also unlocking a 360Hz mode for ultra-fast desktop monitors, launching a 90Hz version of its Steam Deck app, and more.

Do all these changes make GeForce Now fundamentally better? Absolutely, and it was already pretty good! But while playing I couldn’t escape the thought: it’s a good thing Nvidia is …

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