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NVIDIA GeForce NOW Cloud Gaming Adds RTX 5080 GPU Support & Improved Streaming
GeForce NOW, NVIDIA's cloud gaming platform, is receiving a substantial upgrade in September this year that introduces its latest Blackwell Architecture features and RTX 5080 series GPUs, alongside improved streaming quality, more supported devices, and games.
GeForce RTX 5080-class GPU servers will be introduced to the GeForce NOW Ultimate membership tier, offering 2.8 times faster frame rates compared to its previous-generation RTX 4080 servers, bringing its latest AI-enhanced features like DLSS 4, enhanced ray tracing with Neural Rendering and Multi-Frame Generation for maximum resolutions and performance.
It's to be noted, however, that RTX 5080 servers are only supported for select games and are limited to the Ultimate tier, with no change in servers for the lower Free and Performance tiers.
NVIDIA will also debut Cinematic Quality Streaming (CQS) on GeForce NOW, a suite of technologies that greatly enhance image quality, delivering YUV 4:4:4 Chroma colour precision, HDR10 support, AV1 encoders, AI-enhanced video filters and 100Mbps streaming for maximum sharpness and smoothness.
The cloud gaming service will also be expanded with more games, with an updated library of 2,300 ready-to-play titles, including anticipated upcoming releases like Borderlands 4 , Dying Light: The Beast and The Outer Worlds 2 , alongside an added library of over 2,200 games with its new Install-to-Play feature, allowing Steam titles from select publishers to be downloaded directly to cloud storage, mirroring the experience of having them on a local PC.
Ultimate and Performance tier members will receive 100GB of single-session cloud storage for Install-to-Play games at no additional cost to their membership, with additional cloud storage expansions available for purchase.
Finally, GeForce NOW's latest additions are also expanding beyond PC gaming, with RTX 5080 server support for mobile gaming devices like the Valve Steam Deck and Lenovo Legion Go S, alongside gaming peripherals like Logitech racing wheels and LG TVs and monitors, giving gamers more choices to suit their individual set-ups.
Best of all, these upgrades will arrive at no additional cost, with each tier retaining its existing prices. The GeForce NOW upgrade featuring the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture and RTX 5080 servers will begin rolling out in September.
Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. GeForce Now GeForce RTX 50 Series NVIDIA Nvidia GeForce Now
