Having been in the Australian market for more than a year now, gamers in Australia have been able to enjoy cloud gaming through the NVIDIA GeForce NOW service powered by Pentanet. The telecommunications company Pentanet has announced an expansion in its collaboration with NVIDIA in hopes of delivering “more power and more play to gamers in 2023 and beyond”.
According to Pentanet:
Pentanet will continue its investment in the next-generation of cloud gaming infrastructure, bringing RTX 3080 SuperPODs to Australia. Set to launch early 2023, the RTX 3080 membership class for GeForce NOW gives users access to a dedicated GeForce RTX 3080 GPU in the cloud, which provides a significant performance boost over existing GeForce NOW membership tiers.
Each GeForce NOW SuperPOD consists of over 1,000 GeForce RTX 3080 GPUs that deliver more than 39 petaflops of graphics horsepower. Each instance is 35 teraflops of performance, nearly 3x that of an Xbox Series X, delivering cloud gaming’s highest resolutions and fastest frame rates, paired with the lowest latency.
The GeForce NOW RTX 3080 membership enables games to run at up to 4K at 60 frames per second or 1440p at 120FPS on PC and Mac, up to 4KHDR at 60FPS on NVIDIA SHIELD TV, and up to 120 FPS on select Android devices. GeForce NOW RTX 3080 members will also have exclusive access to RTX 3080 cloud gaming rigs — slices of the SuperPOD — configured with AMD Threadripper PRO CPUs, 28GB of DDR-3200 memory and PCI-GEN4 SSDs.
Expect to hear more about the RTX 3080 tier in the months leading to it launching sometime in 2023.
This comes as GeForce Now boasts 270,000 Australian members who have streamed more than 190 million minutes of gameplay from the cloud in the last twelve months. But what about our friends in New Zealand? While nothing has been confirmed in stone yet, Pentanet has confirmed they are looking at bringing the ‘GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet’ ecosystem to the country in the near future, along with additional nearby countries.
When we first launched ‘GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet’ in Australia, we were setting out to prove that a high-bandwidth, latency-sensitive application could run on Australia’s internet. With hundreds of thousands of members and a steady growth rate each month, we’ve demonstrated that not only is cloud gaming achievable, but there’s a growing appetite for it into the future
Stephen Cornish – Pentanet Managing Director
Expanding our collaboration with NVIDIA is the next stage in the evolution of ‘GeForce NOW Powered by Pentanet,’ with new regions having a highly engaged gaming community. We already have some subscribers in New Zealand who have been with us since our beta program, and they’re loving the platform. The foundations are set for us to explore further activity in more regions to engage the audience of gamers who are keen to get onboard with cloud gaming
