NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Currently Limited to 1080p on Samsung and LG Smart TVs

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One of the perks of LG and Samsung’s new Smart TVs is their built-in support for NVIDIA’s game streaming service, GeForce NOW, enabling gamers to enjoy some of their favorite games without a lot of additional hardware.



Those platforms may not be the best place to enjoy GeForce NOW at the moment, however. As recently disclosed by NVIDIA’s Phil Eisler, GeForce NOW streams on LG and Samsung smart TVs currently max out at 1080p, a substantially lower resolution than what’s provided by the premium RTX 3080 tier of the service (1440p at 120 FPS on PC and Mac).



“The TVs use many different SOCs with different performance levels capable of decoding our streams at 60 FPS, so we’re focused on 1080p first,” Eisler explained in a statement to The Verge. That said, NVIDIA will be improving the quality of GeForce NOW streams for LG and Samsung smart TVs...

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[Dogsofjune]

Seems about right....

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Seems about right....

Yep, and the original beta app that was launched back in November did the same.

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[Dogsofjune]

Consistency