See the photo above? Thatâs not Nvidia â" itâs Microsoftâs xCloud, streaming Halo to an Android phone from remote internet servers powered by AMD GPUs. Google will also be bringing its Stadia cloud gaming service to Google Pixel phones from AMD-powered servers, and youâll be able to try both this fall.
Thatâs probably why AMD rival Nvidia isnât sitting still. The graphics giant just announced it will âsoon extendâ its existing GeForce Now cloud gaming service to Android phones, including flagship devices from LG and Samsung.
Unfortunately, we donât have details like âwhen exactly?â and âhow much?â except that you wonât have to pay to try Nvidiaâs service at first. Like the current GeForce Now for Mac, PC, and Nvidiaâs Shield TV set-top box, itâll be in beta when it starts out.
Itâs not much of a stretch for Nvidia to bring the service to Android phones, by the way. In another life, Nvidiaâs GeForce Grid first came to the Android-based Nvidia Shield portable gaming console, and itâs been running on the Nvidia Shield TV, which runs Android TV, for years. On Mac and PC, the invite-only beta of GeForce Now has proven to be pretty impressive at streaming games over the internet, at least if youâve got an excellent Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection and live relatively near a server â" Iâve been beating bosses in the downright masochistic Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice using GeForce Now, syncing progress to Steam as I go.
Whether itâll work over LTE or 5G cellular connections is another question, though. And Iâm curious how Nvidia might make the economics work if it tries to actually make money from the service and not just, you know, run betas forever.
Recently, Nvidia partnered with Softbank and LGâs U+ to bring GeForce Now to Japan and Korea â" it was previously available in North America and Europe â" and itâs been rolling out newer servers powered by its RTX graphics cards in California and Germany to add additional performance.
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