NVIDIA GeForce NOW game streaming service got some major feature upgrades this season. On the commercial side of things, NVIDIA announced the GeForce NOW Day Pass, a low-cost per day payment. Don't play games all that often and don't need a running monthly subscription? No worries, pay per day as you go with Day Pass. This should be especially useful for those that just want to play the campaign of the latest AAA game that hit GeForce NOW. On the tech side of things, NVIDIA debuted G-SYNC for GeForce NOW. This works on any client device that has a G-SYNC capable display, where the GeForce NOW app collaborates with the cloud G-SYNC server to ensure smooth frame-rates. GeForce NOW Ultimate users, who experience performance and eye-candy comparable to an RTX 4080-powered machine; can also engage Reflex in supported titles at 4K 60 or 4K 120 streaming modes.

NVIDIA also used the moment to show off a suite of hardware capable of playing games on GeForce NOW. This includes thin-and-light ultraportable notebooks that shouldn't normally be able to offer gaming performance comparable to an RTX 4080; large format monitors; tablets, and even handheld consoles like the ASUS ROG Ally. If you have a reliable Internet connection with under 80 ms pings to a GeForce NOW server, it makes more sense to combine the service with the ROG Ally, as you'll get frame-rates and quality of an RTX 4080 with the Ultimate tier; and game streaming in fact takes less power than having the Radeon 780M render a game.