
With a “RTX 3080” tier subscription (provided to us by Nvidia for review purposes), GeForce Now offers the absolute best visual quality of any cloud gaming platform on the market today.Īs the name is meant to suggest, GeForce Now’s highest tier is powered by the high-end RTX 3080 graphics card, complete with full support for ray tracing graphics.

Right off the bat, I feel it’s important to emphasize exactly what it is that Nvidia has gotten right with GeForce Now. Searching for Stadia is a short series intended to shine a spotlight on what made Google Stadia special in the wake of its upcoming shutdown and compare those traits against the ever-widening market of cloud gaming subscriptions. Will you miss Google Stadia? Let us know in the comments below.Nvidia GeForce Now is currently the only cloud gaming service to match the level of streaming quality and low latency of Google Stadia, even exceeding it in some areas. That said, I’m definitely not going to miss the service. I don’t have anything against cloud gaming, but I wasn’t too fond of the latency I’d occasionally encounter, though it’s worth noting that the underlying tech powering Stadia is some of the best in the game streaming industry. I only ended up using Stadia a few times, and I wasn’t a big fan of it. But unlike competing services like Xbox Cloud Gaming - which is bundled with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - you needed to purchase titles individually on Stadia in order to play them.

The game streaming service streams games at up to 4K resolution at up to 60fps, and offered notable games like Cyberpunk, Destiny 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and more.

Stadia allowed players to game on the Chromecast Ultra, Android TV and desktops via Google Chrome, Safari and on Android devices/iPhones. The tech giant is refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store and games and add-on content bought from the Stadia store. Google is finally shutting down its cloud gaming service, Stadia, on January 18th, 2023.
