[ffsm8]

A 1080 is 8 years old and wasn't a flagship, an equivalent card costs ~$100 currently... Also: that's 4 generations, not 2.

It'd be a complete disaster if gfn couldn't beat that performance.

I've attempted to use GFN several times too and can only conclude that you've never played at a decent setup if that felt like a local machine.

The input latency is so high that anything with pvp is entirely unplayable (it adds at least 40-80ms).

Maybe the only thing you're paying is Scenematic single player? In that case, sure. It works well enough. Not worth the subscription as you'd get better performance and experience from a steam deck, but to each their own.

[NikolaNovak]

I have and love a steam deck, and used to have geforce now for about 18 months before I got a 3080 new rig. We might be playing incredibly different games in very different ways, and that's ok - but geforce now being beaten by steam deck is, again, taking a reasonable position way too far.

Geforce now lets me play cp2077 on ultra with all the ray tracing on high resolution 32" monitor. Steam deck can "play" cp2077 at 800 resolution if you don't mind a melting jet engine in your hands. They're both great for what they do and are, and they can make a powerful combo, but in terms of performance I don't see how they can possibly be compared :-/

Edit : did you by any chance only try the free / low tier version of geforce now?

[ffsm8]

No, Nvidia always gives out a 3 month free trial with every purchase. I tried it out when I bought a 3080 when it was released and a 4090 last year.

> cp2077

That's indeed a game that works well with GFN, witcher 3 and similar games too. Pretty sure you're still playing at 720p on GFN though, they're just using dlss for upsampling. You should be able to see the upsampled resolution in the settings of cyberpunk if I remember correctly. My sub ran out however, so no checking anymore

[NikolaNovak]

Thanks for reply!

Fwiw - Cp2077 ran at full res internally. I've played it both with and without dlss on GFNow. I believe when I started it was 2080 for first paid tier and 3080 for the top paid tier. Now the top paid tier is 4080.

[nothercastle]

It’s great for turn based like BG3 or cities skyline. My biggest issue with it is how long it takes to start up a session