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Deliver the Latest Games on Any Device - NVIDIA® GeForce® GRID

GEFORCE GRID
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Play Games on the Latest GeForce GPU Technology

Gaming PC GPUs get faster every year, while consoles only get updated every 5-10 years. So features and performance available to PC gamers outstrip even the best consoles. This includes support for features such as physics, tessellation, advanced antialiasing, and NVIDIA 3D Vision®.

NVIDIA GeForce GRID offers the promise of easy access to the power of an NVIDIA GeForce GRID Supercomputer from the comfort of the living room. Gamers will be able to experience PC titles on their TV with full features and effects turned on that will deliver incredibly rich graphics not possible before on a console. And because it's streamed from the cloud, this incredible gaming experience isn't confined to the living room TV—gamers can stream it to any device including tablets, PCs, and smart phones.

Cloud-service operators will also be able to improve the gaming experience every year as new GPUs become available and network performance improves. The possibilities are endless once game developers fully embrace the power of cloud gaming supercomputers and design games specifically for the awesome graphics processing power that these cloud machines deliver.

 
Comparision of Game Latency

Minimize latency and lag

To a gamer, latency or lag can be the difference between life and death. That's why NVIDIA has focused on reducing game server latency throughout the pipeline, achieving an amazing 30ms reduction with the GeForce GRID Platform. The end result is that cloud gaming now feels like playing on a local console.

These improvements are the result of NVIDIA's fast and concurrent game capture APIs, on-chip H.264 hardware encoding, and working with cloud game infrastructure providers to place servers next to major cities. Plus, new Smart TV makers are working with NVIDIA to reduce the input lag time on their Ethernet ports compared to the amount of buffering that usually exists on the HDMI input port to most consumer TVs.

NVIDIA is now able to show this performance in action.

 

Maximize game server scaling and efficiency

The NVIDIA GeForce GRID platform includes GeForce GRID graphics multi-processor boards, which include two Kepler-architecture GPUs. Because GeForce GRID processors include on-chip encoding, CPU cores are not used for video encoding and are freed up to run more games. Therefore, four GPUs can now be installed into a single game server with 4X the density of first-generation cloud gaming servers.

The net result is a dramatic reduction in the amount of power consumed per game stream and the cost per game stream. It will now be possible for game-service operators to offer bundles of games for about $10/month, similar to movie-streaming services.

Game Server Density and Power