Nvidia recently announced its "biggest launch in GeForce Now RTX" history which includes an upgrade to RTX 5080 performance, and last week I got some hands-on time with the new and improved game streaming service. As a big proponent of local, discrete, good ol' fashioned hardware, I wasn't quite expecting how good it feels to play GeForce Now (GFN) on the latest Blackwell servers: I could not tell the difference. Like, at all.
At least, that was the case with Apex Legends at 1440p on low to medium settings. I'm talking of course, about latency, here, as that's the main concern with competitive shooters, which is a genre that's usually more my jam than the latest AAA singleplayer games.
