AMD Unveils Cloud Gaming Graphics Cards

[gigastar]

Whats embarrasing is that i have to admit that being able to play Planetside 2 in 720p at 30fps would be an improvement.

 

[Kahani]

It's capable of being 6 consoles at the same time, that isn't too shabby. You'd probably get 2 1080p streams out of it with a modern game, still better than most cards unless you're really into PC gaming and have thrown money at a top end card.

Oh, I have no doubt it would be pretty awesome as part of a home PC. But that's not what it's for. Who's going to want to subscribe to a streaming service that offers lower quality than current consoles and new phones, let alone the new consoles that will be out by the time anyone is actually using this thing? As a piece of technology it's reasonably impressive, but as an actual commercial product I just don't see the point.

 

[Pilkingtube]

It's capable of being 6 consoles at the same time, that isn't too shabby. You'd probably get 2 1080p streams out of it with a modern game, still better than most cards unless you're really into PC gaming and have thrown money at a top end card.

Oh, I have no doubt it would be pretty awesome as part of a home PC. But that's not what it's for. Who's going to want to subscribe to a streaming service that offers lower quality than current consoles and new phones, let alone the new consoles that will be out by the time anyone is actually using this thing? As a piece of technology it's reasonably impressive, but as an actual commercial product I just don't see the point.

Wait I thought consoles were 720p at 30fps? Surely they are matching console then? Also these cards could just scale up, so rather than 6 console streams it could be 3 medium-high PC streams or 2 high PC streams etc etc, it can output at different qualities/different numbers of streams

 

[Kahani]

Wait I thought consoles were 720p at 30fps? Surely they are matching console then?

Exactly. They are matching current consoles. The ones which, as I pointed out in my first post, are in the process of being replaced. And even those are capable of managing the still rather low resolution of 1080p even if they don't push for it in every game.

Also these cards could just scale up, so rather than 6 console streams it could be 3 medium-high PC streams or 2 high PC streams etc etc, it can output at different qualities/different numbers of streams

Do you have any evidence to back that up? Certainly it's not mentioned in the article. As a card designed specifically to power streaming services, it doesn't seem too unreasonable to assume that it's only capable of multiple low quality streams rather than also being able to do less higher quality ones. Especially since even my 2 1/2 year old PC can easily run two games simultaneously if I have the resolution as low as 1920x1080 - in terms of raw power it certainly doesn't seem particularly impressive, it's only the ability to produce multiple streams that makes it interesting.