[lemoncookiechip]

No worries, gamers.

You can subscribe to our GeForce NOW service to rent a top of the line card through our cloud service for the low low price of 11€$£ or 22€$£ a month with *almost no restrictions.

*Except for all the restrictions.

[merpkz]

I just bought a 5070 Ti a week ago and can attest I have used it for maybe 3-4 hours since then. It begs the question maybe I should have rented the compute instead instead of paying 900 eur on spot - that's like 3 years worth of rent.

[observationist]

If the compute is the unit of value under consideration, maybe. But there's more - you have access, freedom from supervision, the capability to modify, upgrade, tweak, adjust anything you want, resell compute under p2p cloud services when idle, etc. And then if the market for these gets hot, you can sell and recoup your initial costs and then some. The freedom and opportunity benefit - as opposed to the dependence and opportunity cost of renting - is where I personally think you come out on top.

[pixl97]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_ha...

[throwaway2027]

Because it'll set a precedent and eventually kill off being able to own the hardware to run things locally anymore in the future.

[Aurornis]

The GeForce Now service is actually a decent deal for casual gamers.

The hardcore and frequent gamers won’t like it but it was never really for them.

[wongarsu]

The correct calculation is not 900€/36 months but (900€-$resell_value)/36 months. If you sell your GPU for 450€ after three years you saved a good bit of money. If the AI bubble doesn't pop, your resale value might even be a good bit higher than that. I've had a used 1080TI that I used for five years and then sold for nearly the same price, making it effectively free (minus electricity use and opportunity cost)

[dymk]

If you buy, you still own the 5070 at the end of three years and can sell it. If you rent, you have nothing.

[threetonesun]

Currently after 3 years the price of the GPU if you decide to sell it might be a wash, much like it was after the crypto boom. Granted you have to pay for electricity to run it, but you also have full control over what it runs.

[dymk]

It cost 900eur because nvidia is shafting you

[RulerOf]

I briefly considered doing the GPU rental thing, but the added latency and video encoding artifacts annoy me endlessly.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Yes! Then you want to play one of the FromSoftware game and you are doomed.

Damn nvidia

[dyauspitr]

Where the hell is 900 eur 3 years of rent

[PunchyHamster]

It's 33 eurodollar now. I'm sorry I meant 44

[lemoncookiechip]

China will save us, except no, we'll just ban their hardware sales, sucks to suck.

[cmxch]

Good thing I got my 5070ti when I did.