UL Benchmarks has shared the first tech demo (in video format) for Google Stadia. Stadia is Google’s new streaming service that promises to make multi-GPU computing available to everyone through the cloud. In this tech demo, UL Benchmarks shows how game developers can use cloud-based, multi-GPU rendering on Stadia to create richer, more dynamic game experiences.
In this demo, one GPU handles most of the traditional geometry rendering. Additional GPUs are called in as needed to enhance the scene with dynamic fluid simulations and complex particle effects.
As UL Benchmarks stated:
“Multi-GPU computing has the potential to make game experiences richer and more dynamic. But PCs with multiple GPUs are rare and expensive, which gives game developers little reason to explore the opportunities.
For the last few months, we’ve been working with Google to create a real-time demo of cloud-based, multi-GPU rendering to show how games might use the extra performance available through Stadia.”
Now while this sounds great on paper, we’ve seen a lot of developers lately abandoning multi-GPU support on the PC. As we’ve seen in our PC Performance Analysis articles, it’s really rare these days finding a new release with support for either SLI or Crossfire. Therefore, I’m not certain whether third-party game developers will indeed take advantage of Stadia’s multi-GPU support (though I can see first-party studios putting multi-GPUs to good use).
But anyway, enjoy the video and stay tuned for more!
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Definitely something interesting with Stadia. A bit too early to get excited about it. But seems Sony is doing well with Playstation Now and NVidia’s working on their own version too. So one way or another, there’s a lot of potential, and benefits for gaming.
By your own logic, we already basically don’t have any ownership over games. With cloud gaming, you’ll basically have the same ownership over games as we currently do with literally any digital store.
Geforce Now lets you access your entire Steam library. And you can use any of the same mods that you’d use from the Steam Workshop. There’s nothing that says that you won’t be able to use other types of mods as cloud gaming becomes more prominent.
Your complaints seem more that you’re someone who only prefers buying the physical disc for something. In which case, please go ahead and continue doing that. You can relax. Nobody’s going to steal that away from you
Ok so if you’re ok with partial ownership on Steam, then it’s basically no different with cloud streaming.
Basically you can have your Steam library, but you can just play the games without having to download them first.
If the cloud service goes away… you still have the game in your steam library.
It’s not a perfect analogy, but we currently have the same system for movies. You buy a movie on iTunes or Vudu, and you can access the movie anywhere via moviesanywhere (or formerly Ultraviolet).
That’s where we should be celebrating cloud streaming heading toward, rather than being afraid of it.
lmfao whatever man. You’re just as guilty of wasting my time.
I don’t care two s**ts about your attention. You’re the one who replied to my original comment, and I refuted you. So if you claim that you don’t understand, then that’s on you. Please go away! 🙂
Is interesting to play pc games on a platform agnostic format (i do it already locally) but personally I’m all out for physical copies although the last year’s I haven’t but any but digital.
Still to be able after years to put a game dvd on a remote “unplugged” computer and be able to play the game – no strings attached, it’s much more preferable than this always online – and soon – real time steamed gaming.
Gaming for the intellectually bankrupt has arrived! Rejoice!
Well expected them to go bankrupt in half a year, most of people hate the idea, not to mention global internet difference in different regions.
They have Goolag’s infinite money behind it, they won’t go bankrupt, but it will hopefully be shut down if it fails to be profitable.
Just like Google+.
😀 dont worry this sh*t cant even begin to unravel since a lot of people dont have good nets or just dont feel right not to play on their own systems.
I just said it, thats it its not like I know much about the company but the project will die.
ok
Cloud-based AMD Crossfire displayed via a YouTube layer with all the artifacting and compression issues that entails plus with added latency?
While the possibility exists for Google Stadia to be free to access the games obviously won’t be free so the service will presumably be a trojan horse to push tons of adverts into games people are paying for given that’s how YouTube traditionally makes its money.
Overall, isn’t Google Stadia basically like the failed OnLive yet again but with a few extra shiny bits and a more powerful backer with vastly more money to spend on slick marketing?
In one vital aspect Stadia could be much worse because at least OnLive didn’t seek to police the internet. It’s well known what kind of authoritarian and intolerant far-Left politics Google seeks to impose (see the case of James Damore just for starters) so good luck when saying anything while gaming online via Stadia that doesn’t conform to the SJW identity politics hive mind.
Google Stadia will be a clear and present danger to freedom of speech within the games industry (for gamers and devs alike) if it gains real traction so expect anti-consumer shill media SJW sites like Polygon, Kotaku, PC Gamer and Eurogamer plus soyboys on Google’s YouTube such as Jim Sterling to eventually support it. Once the proverbial penny drops with them that Stadia will enable their cause to exert far greater control over the gaming masses then they’ll be pushing a positive narrative in support.
The issue is google are so wealthy they can force push it on the industry…since 2008 it seems gaming get worse every year
Very true but there’s always room for hope as long as freedom of speech is still permitted on the internet. I don’t say that lightly given recent events such as the Rotten Tomatoes debacle, Epic Games Store making user reviews optional for games’ publishers and even Steam having bent the knee to publishers with its own changes to the visibility of user reviews.
For instance, Microsoft also has ‘more money than God’ and yet the consumer pushback against their original plans for Xbox One forced them into backtracking. On a less immediately obvious scale, the same could be argued for Windows 10 Store UWP given that the Steam release of Halo TMCC perhaps indicates an admission of defeat from Microsoft that gamers will continue rejecting UWP and Windows 10 Store no matter how hard Microsoft pushes it.
Google itself isn’t infallible either. Remember when Google+, Google Glass, Google Video, Google Wave and Gmail were supposed to be the next big thing?
While it’s perhaps all too easy to be blinded by the hype right now I suspect that once the dust settles folk will (hopefully) wake up to the fact that when all is said and done Stadia is just another OnLive-type offering and so will once more ignore it.
However, if it’s free to access and game prices are far cheaper than is presently the case then it might gain some traction. That’s easier said than done though because the likes of EA and Activision won’t be keen for their games to be priced so cheaply. Unless, that is, Google gives them a cut of the advertising revenues from the huge number of adverts Stadia will presumably be swamped with. I doubt Ad Blocker will work on Stadia!
well said. the old saying…something like ” what power does the king’s sword have? as it is OUR arm that holds it.”…..I butchered it ..but you get it.
Stage fatality.
And if you say something up-pc or have an opposing political ideology, no more gaming for you. This is like the MS store, just another method of acting as a gatekeeper for developers and consumers.
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You’d think with that much power, they’d be able to create a fluid simulation that actually looks like fluid…
I’m tired of all my content sitting on a server for developers to decide when I get it and when I don’t. Haven’t you guys paid for games through the app store that just vanished and your money never refunded? Bio-shock on istore? Rage on istore? What stops them from doing the same once cloud gaming because the norm? Nothing.
Same with your movies, your music, it’s all cloud/digital now. They want to control your content you pay for. Dangerous path being taken here.People make fun of me for buying books still, but they’re mine, they don’t disappear in the morning because the author decided for whatever reason to pull it.
“What stops them from doing the same once cloud gaming because the norm? Nothing.”
This is really all that should need to be said. I can’t get past this question, and I never will.