WAIT - An RTX 4080 For $20?! - Geforce Now Ultimate Review

An RTX 4080 Graphics card for only $20? RTX Ray Tracing, and DLSS 3.0 - 240 fps gameplay? What's the catch?! Join PC Centric for the Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate Review!

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00:00 What's the Catch?!
01:18 Destiny 2!
02:37 Apex Legends!
06:13 Where are the games?!
08:48 Cyberpunk 4k 120FPS
11:16 Ultrawide!
13:30 Is It Worth It?!

[PcCentric]

*CORRECTION - Max Ultrawide Res is 3840 x 1600*

[getwrx-d]

FYI this was NVIDIAs goal from the beginning, that's why cards are so expensive and will keep getting more expensive. They want everyone to "rent" their GPU indefinitely through cloud services. This is also why they removed Game Streaming from your local PC on NVIDIA Shields recently. Watch...the prices will keep going up on hardware until this is the only option. They make more money renting server blades then on individual cards.

[iaNooB]

This is great. I can keep my 1080ti forever for playing normal games. Then when I want to play cyber punk at 100fps I can pay 20 bucks for 1 month complete the game and didn't need to pay 2000 for a new GPU and then cancel my sub

[dfgatorfan]

Geforce Now has come a long way and is pretty incredible. I've been bringing a portable monitor, mouse and keyboard with me on my travels lately and use Samsung Dex on my phone to run Geforce Now to play Destiny 2 flawlessly from (most) hotels. That just blows my mind. Being able to play high end games on low end hardware is a great option to have. I can even play latency free off of good 5G or LTE sometimes.

[soundproductionandadvice]

M1 Mac user and ARMA III player. It's GREAT. No complaints and any issues tech support are on the ball. Thoroughly recommended.

[giff]

Seems like final user experience is going to be directly related to how close to the servers you are.

[zgoaty]

There’s still the issue of not being able to have access to your ENTIRE game library through GFN (games come and go from the service all the time so if a game you’ve been playing all of a sudden is removed from GFN it doesn’t matter if the game is in your Steam, Epic, etc. library, you can’t play it). Also, there are areas that still deal in data caps so unless you’ve paid the extra to remove it, 13-16 GB/hour will add up quickly if you game a lot (ex.: competitive gaming).

[hondamugen]

Hard pass, I would rather give up PC gaming altogether if GPU companies cannot bring affordable hardware to the market. Even after the pandemic, GPU manufacturers seem to be unable or more likely unwilling to release reasonably priced graphics cards. I refuse to "rent" a piece of hardware that would be otherwise be easily obtainable if these companies had more competition to stifle their greed. A mid range GPU should not cost $1, 000. This is all about money and controlling the consumer as it always is.

[TerryBailey]

I Built My First Gaming PC Not Long Ago(3060ti & 5600x), Your Videos Were Instrumental. Awesome As Always!

[TheGreatCasey]

GeForce now is a game CHANGER for the steam deck. Being able to max out any game you want and play at 60fps is incredible.

In my experience it hasnt felt any different from playing the game natively in terms of input delay.

I went from barely getting 40fps on low settings in the division 2 on the deck to having it stable 60fps with everything maxed and actually rendering and 1920x1200. Absolutely insane!

[dualfever]

A big part of PC gaming is modding/tinkering. This can't happen here. I will not be streaming games so they can charge us for collecting and selling our data.

[Annabethe]

If the game you want to play is available on GFN and you don't plan any modding, have high speed and low latency internet connection, don't rely on custom keybinds for each game etc. then GFN is definitely Worth it.

[klaymoon]

Looks good. I just wish Geforce Now supports more AAA games.

[Donahue]

$200 dollars per year for this cards rental. you can literally do a whole generation for 2 years for $400. then just buy the next generation if its worth it. make Nvidia sit on a giant stack of cards that will never sell. This way they will notice the massive loss in sells and wasting tons of money on over producing, so they will drop the prices on the next generation.

[nashsanadiki]

Newt Scamander looks amazing in the new jumper 😊

[Mill-on-da-track]

I signed up to play pc games for times when im away from home and im very impressed. I would always rather have my own hardware but this is very very good if you have a good connection. Id recommend for those who dont want to dump 1k plus into a build but still want to pc game

[daunted]

This way you can go Team red, and if RTX games start exploding in popularity, you can just "rent" a 4080 :P

[justanaveragebalkan]

I mean it has it's chores, but when i travel, all i need to pack is just my PS5 Controller, and any Smart TV that runs android, can run my entire gaming collection at 4k 120 fps, as long as the tv supports it, for 10 bucks (those of us that pre-ordered it have lifetime discount for geforce now) and i don't need to pay it each month just when i need it. I call that a steal, why spend 6k on a pc each 2--3 years for gaming when i can spend 50-100 for 3 years when i feel like playing games.

[LukeJukeDuke]

I expected this kind of gaming to die off with the laggy experience this had back then. Now, its a pretty good alternative. Now it all depends on the gamer's internet speed.

However, i would rather have the pride to have a physical pc right beside me. Im planning to buy a 3060ti for me future pc.

[GoldTrendz]

Okay, here's my take on GeForce NOW:

I recently purchased a subscription for GeForce NOW. I'm using a pc that can run smaller games (Like Minecraft, Terraria, even Valorant on lower settings with a little bit of lag, and fortnite on super low settings with a good amount of lag) and sadly cannot run my favorite titles like Ark, or Battlefield. Because of this, there's been a few games sitting in my steam library that I physically cannot play, which I picked up from sales. GeForce NOW allows me to play them on max settings at 60fps (all my monitor allows) and little to no lag, besides the blur due to my internet being pretty bad. For 20$ a month, that is absolutely a steal, no matter what issues it may have. The only real issue I have with GeForce NOW is the limited amount of games I can play. I'd love to play something like valorant, or finally be able to play that fun looking Minecraft modpack I've always wanted to play, but it's just not possible because GeForce NOW limits you to games of their choosing.

This issue could be easily resolved by allowing users to just.. have full control over the pc. It'd come at no extra cost to Nvidia, and it would literally make them the #1 cloud pc service due to their low price, instantly cutting off competitors like Shadow Tech and others, and would definitely skyrocket their sales, and on top of that they could easily raise the price and STILL skyrocket in sales due to the fact that they basically have the best cloud pcs on the market.

Another issue I have is the fact that I simply don't have access to the 4080 yet. It's not available where I live, and it looks like this has been rolling out for quite a while, so why isn't it available where I am? It just doesn't make much sense to me how slow they are with things like this.

Overall I'd say GeForce NOW is well worth the low price of 20$/month. You do have to have your own games to use it but there's a solid amount of free games on there, in addition to the fact that steam often does large sales on games where you can get upwards of 90% off, and epic games flat out gives you free games every week that you get to keep and play on your account forever.