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PC Gamer
Andy Edser

I've been testing Nvidia GeForce Now's RTX 5080 upgrade against an actual RTX 5080 and the two feel eerily close—although 4K streaming invokes the occasional wobble

An RTX 5080 GPU sitting in front of a 32-inch 4K screen with Doom: The Dark Ages running on GeForce Now in the background.

Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service is due to receive a significant upgrade later this month, boosting the top tier subscription's capabilities to what it describes as "RTX 5080 performance", thanks to some upgraded SuperPods. Our Jacob briefly got his hands on the upgrade at an Nvidia event and came away fairly impressed, but I found myself curious.

What's it like in comparison to an actual RTX 5080 machine? And could it really fool me into believing I was playing my games locally, as opposed to streaming through a home broadband connection?

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