Terrible News: Cloud Gaming Is Actually Good Now

Believe it or not, Nvidia’s GeForce NOW has finally leveled up—streaming big AAA titles like Indiana Jones, Borderlands 4, and Apex Legends with shockingly smooth frame rates and low latency. Linus and the team pit cloud performance head-to-head against a beefy local rig to see if ditching your own hardware still feels like sacrilege.

Spoiler: the results aren’t what you’d expect. While local play still edges out cloud in a few spots, the gap is small enough that you might reconsider that next GPU or CPU upgrade—assuming your internet connection can keep up.

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