Over the past week, I’ve been using Nvidia’s new RTX 5080 GeForce Now tier. Nvidia’s cloud gaming service has been the best on the market for years now, and this upgrade makes it even better. I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077, Overwatch 2, and Silksong, and it’s genuinely comparable to my own PC.
The upgrade is also a staggering reminder of just how far behind Xbox Cloud Gaming is, both in stream quality and latency – two key components for streaming games from the cloud. Microsoft needs a far better cloud for its Xbox everywhere strategy. Fortunately, there are plenty of signs that it’s about to get a much-needed upgrade.
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