NVIDIA today at Gamescom 2025 announced a slew of updates to the GeForce NOW cloud gaming platform. The company eyes GeForce NOW as the future of PC gaming, especially given the rising costs of gaming graphics cards. With games being rendered on cloud machines instead of locally, gamers have the ability to turn pretty much any platform with a screen and a suitable set of input devices into a premium gaming PC, from thousands of games across PC gaming platforms such as Steam, Epic Games, GOG, Xbox, and Ubisoft, can be accessed. Today, the platform is being updated with new features and technology.

To begin with, NVIDIA is bringing GeForce RTX 5080 to GeForce NOW as the new Ultimate tier, replacing the current one powered by the RTX 4080. This service lets you play games with the eye-candy and performance comparable to a gaming PC powered by an RTX 5080 GPU, with up to 4K Ultra HD resolution, and up to 240 FPS to be had, and gaming sessions as long as 8 hours. Ultimate RTX 5080 should also give you options such as DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, and be ready for games implementing new features such as ray tracing with Mega Geometry, and Neural Rendering—something not available on the RTX 4080. Thanks to Multi Frame Generation, the Ultimate RTX 5080 tier now offers up to 2.8x higher frame-rates than the previous Ultimate RTX 4080 tier.