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Nvidia CEO Foresees a Great Year for PC Gaming Laptops (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Nvidia has predicted that the year ahead would be a good one for the company, with demand for laptop gaming gear remaining strong. From a report: Looking forward, Huang said it would be a big year for gaming laptops, as Nvidia knows that more than 40 Turing-based gaming laptops (based on the GeForce RTX 2060) are poised to launch during the year. Those laptops use mid-range RTX cards based on graphics processing units (GPUs) using Nvidia's new Turing architecture -- the GeForce RTX graphics cards that can do real-time ray tracing -- that are battery efficient.

Huang acknowledged that visibility is limited. I asked him if cloud gaming would be a disruptive force during the year. But he noted that Nvidia had been providing its own cloud gaming solution, GeForce Now, with relatively little impact on the market for three years. So he said it remains to be seen if cloud gaming and the "Netflix of games" would make an impact on the market. In the meantime, he said that gaming laptops would launch.

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  1. Cloud gaming by Z80a · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because people finally got dumb enough to accept not owning games and having all the stuff yanked below their feet when the service goes down?

    1. Re:Cloud gaming by jellomizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I am not disagreeing with you, however looking at the other side...
      Streaming cloud gaming, could mean we are not needing to spend a lot of money on expensive upgrades for game pcs, and consoles anymore.
      If we can get streaming video to display in 4k with lag less then 1/60th of a second. I could see massive could server farms, doing all the rendering and streaming your frames to your pc over the network. No need upgrade your device every 4 years, because the Cloud Games would render all the stuff with the modern technology and more horse power then most of us could afford.
      Now with today's technology, this seems like a bad idea, however if we can get wide area network speeds for home consumers at around 2tbs which is probably in an other 20-30 years.

      (Mental note, take stock out of consumer hardware makers when I retire)

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    2. Re:Cloud gaming by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Now all you have to do is to get a latency of zero and unlimited bandwidth and you're actually having something like a point.

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