Want the best looking gaming experience wherever you are, on your phone, laptop, TV or old iPad? GeForce NOW is one of the best ways to get your hands on a current-gen NVIDIA graphics card without needing to buy a whole new gaming system. And you’ll be pleased to hear there's a GeForce NOW summer sale going on, uh, now.
Right now until the 18th August, you can get a one month or six month GeForce NOW subscription for half price. That's just £9.99 a month for the Ultimate tier which means access to a RTX 4080 rig that will play games in 4K at 120 FPS, or 240 FPS at 1080p. And, importantly, no ads.
With any of the tiers you gain access to over 1,800 games and apps that you can smash out in high graphics settings with whatever old machine you have lying around. As long as you have a healthy internet connection (15Mbps download minimum), you can just grab an old laptop, Mac, desktop, TV, compatible Android device, iPhone or Steam Deck to play. It's that easy. Just sign up to GeForce NOW and you'll be rifling through a bursting game library in no time.
No installation, no updates. Just press go.
Imagine bashing out a quick game of Overwatch on an old Mac sitting in the canteen at uni, or the back of the library while you're meant to be studying… I'm not condoning this, I'm just sayin', it can be done.
And if you already have games you want to play, but left your gaming rig at your parents house while studying away, you can use connect GeForce NOW with any of your existing game libraries—including Steam, EPIC Games, Ubisoft’s Uplay, Xbox Game store, EA and GOG.com—so you can use your Ultimate RTX 4080 cloud rig to get through your steadily building backlog.
With Ultimate tier, your subscription comes with sparkly Ray Tracing and NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5, which is a combo of Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction and, thanks to the RTX 4080 GPU, Frame Generation. All that helps to make games run much more smoothly, and improve responsiveness to give you a competitive edge. Of course, you'll still want to grab yourself one of the best gaming monitors and a fancy mouse and keyboard combo if you want to make the most of the high FPS you're suddenly achieving through the magic of the cloud.
If Ultimate tier at half price is still a bit of a stretch, there are other options to consider. Premium tier is currently £4.99 a month, which means ad free gaming on a premium rig, complete with RTX features and access to priority gaming servers. Sure you only get 6 hours of gaming at a time, but you're getting 60 FPS at 1080p, which is a darn sight more than I had through university.
There's also a free tier which has a few ads, but it means you can nab an hour of game time here and there on a basic rig. It might not have all the fancy RTX features, but hey… don't look a gift GPU in the mouth, as they say (they don't say that).
You can sign up for your half price subscription on the GeForce NOW website right now for access to all NVIDIA's fancy DLSS and Ray Tracing wizardry, and get a powerful rig at your fingertips from most any machine you can get your hands on. And once the half price sale is over on August 18th, you can still get a great price on access to an RTX 4080-powered machine at just £19.99 a month.
So if you can find that extra tenner through student discounts or a helpful parent or guardian, remember, it's still cheaper than buying a gaming PC!
