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Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering

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Re: Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering

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Or are guidelines instead of stead fast rules.

Good point. I (think I) remember seeing guidelines being used to enforce a mod action though, so then they would stop being guideliness and become rules.

I don't think things are so black and white. The mods can pretty much do whatever they want at the end of the day. They also give a lot of leeway.

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Tangentially related, but GeForce Now is absolutely incredible. It seems like they’ve finally cracked game streaming. If you have a solid wired connection, it is practically unnoticeable for single player games at this point. They also made the (genius) decision to integrate it with multiple existing stores like Steam and GOG rather than building their own. I don’t know if I’ll ever buy a gaming PC again.

Shadow is much better (not as cheap as GeforceNow), you basically get a PC with a dedicated GPU, you can do what ever you want with it

https://shadow.tech/

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#23

Seeing more and more submissions recently break this guideline: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Time for guideline change or stricter enforcement?

The last time I saw it enforced, it was for a MUCH more material change of the title. Something like, "New Product Announced!" to "Change you password now!", hiding it was basically an ad, etc. This doesn't mention the Metaverse part (which is material), but it's also more of a summarization and not an outright deception.

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Tangentially related, but GeForce Now is absolutely incredible. It seems like they’ve finally cracked game streaming. If you have a solid wired connection, it is practically unnoticeable for single player games at this point. They also made the (genius) decision to integrate it with multiple existing stores like Steam and GOG rather than building their own. I don’t know if I’ll ever buy a gaming PC again.

Shadow is much better (not as cheap as GeforceNow), you basically get a PC with a dedicated GPU, you can do what ever you want with it https://shadow.tech/

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Re: Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. I (think I) remember seeing guidelines being used to enforce a mod action though, so then they would stop being guideliness and become rules.

I don't think things are so black and white. The mods can pretty much do whatever they want at the end of the day. They also give a lot of leeway.

I guess my engineering mind is wanting things to be more black and white.

Re: Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering

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Tangentially related, but GeForce Now is absolutely incredible. It seems like they’ve finally cracked game streaming. If you have a solid wired connection, it is practically unnoticeable for single player games at this point. They also made the (genius) decision to integrate it with multiple existing stores like Steam and GOG rather than building their own. I don’t know if I’ll ever buy a gaming PC again.

Shadow is much better (not as cheap as GeforceNow), you basically get a PC with a dedicated GPU, you can do what ever you want with it https://shadow.tech/

Also if you're interested in a bigger offering, I just ordered their upcoming Business Premium offering (not public yet, you need to contact them). It comes with an RTX6000 w/ 32GB vRAM, 6 cores of an Intel Platinum and 24GB RAM for 206€ per month. Here's their lineup: https://i.imgur.com/lWM3Vco.png. (129€ is the price until December 2022). Just find the business contact address on their site and shoot them a mail.

I've been working with Mathematica and PyTorch on it, and I played Stray, Cyberpunk and Ghost Recon all on max graphics with 120fps. It's insane and definitely moving the goalpost for me in terms of expectations.

Re: Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering

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Tangentially related, but GeForce Now is absolutely incredible. It seems like they’ve finally cracked game streaming. If you have a solid wired connection, it is practically unnoticeable for single player games at this point. They also made the (genius) decision to integrate it with multiple existing stores like Steam and GOG rather than building their own. I don’t know if I’ll ever buy a gaming PC again.

I've been a GeForce Now subscriber since the start. It's a good service that is prevented by publishers from being great. Two major pain points for me: 1) I can't play my whole library. During the beta I was able to play pretty much my whole steam library but that changed after GFN went live. I accept that some titles may have technical limitations but thats far from universal. Like, why can't I play Red Dead Redempt…

You can use Moonlight (an open source implementation of Nvidia's gamestream protocol) and a cloud PC like Paperspace or Shadow, to stream any game you want. I used Paperspace primarily, you can get a decent graphics card for about $0.50/hr. In Seattle with 100 Mbps internet I wasn't having many issues with latency or lag, and it was hard to tell I wasn't running it on my machine. I put a lot of hours into Elden Ring this way.

...until I got my 3060. At a certain point it just makes more sense to buy your own card.

Re: Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering

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It's not the first, Geforce Now has been around for a while.

I might misunderstand the exact definition of Saas, but I thought it referred to subscriptions specifically. I think GeForce Now is free, but just not particularly useful without having bought an nvidia GPU. Is there any sort of recurring payment aspect to it, or am I just assuming a more narrow definition of SaaS than you?

EDIT: I think I confused GeForce Now with the GeForce Experience or whatever the driver management/game overlay thing is. From searching, it definitely is a subscription service

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