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NVIDIA's GeForce Now with RTX 5080 GPUs is a cloud gaming revelation

Thanks to its new RTX 5080 servers, NVIDIA's GeForce Now streaming looks as great as local gaming.

I've used Xbox offering on and off over the years, and while it's typically been easy to use, it always felt a bit low-res (it tops out at 1080p/60 fps) and filled with blotchy video compression. There's the raw power inherent in the leap to RTX 5080-level GPUs, which leads to higher frame rates and the ability to lean into demanding features like ray tracing. The need for killer bandwidth and the reality of shoddy internet infrastructure are the biggest issues holding cloud gaming back from truly replacing local play.

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