NVIDIA GeForce Now is based on the Intel CC150 and GeForce RTX 10-8

A few days ago the NVIDIA GeForce Now streaming game service was officially launched. The platform has long been in beta and is now entering a commercial phase to compete with Google Stadia. The hardware that uses this NVIDIA platform has now been leaked. Basically what we are interested in knowing is what processor, how much RAM and what graphics they use.

GeForce Now has a free version that limits playtime to one hour. The paid option offers unlimited gaming and ray tracing, if the game supports it . Naturally, NVIDIA uses its own GPUs, a special version of them. The processor is from Intel, and it's also interesting to know the amount of RAM in each system.

NVIDIA GeForce Now is based on Intel processors

A few days ago the strange Intel CC150 processor was leaking, of which we had not heard anything before. This 8-core, 16-thread processor is the foundation of this new streaming gaming platform. What NVIDIA does is assign each user 4 cores and 8 threads, dividing the processor in two.

Each of the servers has two Intel CC150 processors, so each of the servers can host four users. This is something curious and interesting.

We also know from the leaked benchmark that the system has 14,320MB of RAM available. Windows Server 2019 allocates half the RAM for each core. This indicates that the servers have 32GB of RAM and each processor is assigned 16GB of RAM. This leaves us with that each user has approximately 7.1GB of RAM.

What graphics card do you use?

For the GeForce Now platform it seems that NVIDIA has developed its own graphics card or at least, has not given it a commercial name. The graph in question has been baptized simply as GeForce RTX 10-8, which does not tell us anything. At first we all thought they would use an RTX 2080 Ti or perhaps the Titan RTX, as it is a hybrid between gaming and professional.

But a benchmark lets us see that the GPU is the TU102, a silicon that has not been launched on the market. We assume that this silicon will have some special characteristics that we do not know about and that is why it is only used in the GeForce Now.

It is also interesting to see that the GPU is accompanied by 8GB of VRAM that is shared. Possibly some of these graphics are interconnected by NVLink, although it is not clear. Ashes of Singularity shows us that for FullHD resolutions this amount of RAM is more than enough. The problem will be if we go up to 4K resolution, which could jerk if there is no NVLink system.

Can we play comfortably?

Well, if we want to play at FullHD resolutions we will have no problems, for 4K games possibly some. NVIDIA may eventually release a more expensive Premium version for gaming at 4K resolutions.

In any case, the great potential of this platform is not so much in the resolution, but in the possibilities it offers. NVIDIA intends to offer the ability to run our games from Steam, UPlay, Epic Games Store, and other digital game stores. Google Stadia forces you to pay for games on its platform, even if we already have them on another platform.

The truth is that NVIDIA GeForce Now has just hit the market and seems to be doing better than Stadia. Possibly they will expand possibilities and solutions over time.

Source: wccftech