Shadow, the cloud desktop specialist with an eye on all things gaming, revealed that gamers will be able to upgrade their cloud desktop soon, with the addition of a new lineup of GPUs and a bold new strategy.
Last night’s Shadow Spotlight event revealed a huge number of new additions for cloud company Shadow. After blowing me away with its very first cloud gaming desktop offering in 2016, and impressing the market with a highly capable online streaming experience, this desktop in the cloud company is now set to take a step into the modern age with its Power Upgrade offering. Taking a different approach from streaming services like Playstation Now, and moving he entire desktop platform into the cloud, this new take on Shadow’s product range was confirmed as part of the company’s new strategy. The Power Upgrade is set to take the base $29.99/€29.99/£29.99 per month offering and add an improved edition for $14.99/€14.99 or local equivalent.
The new lineup takes the base GTX 1080 GPU, 4 core CPU, and 12GB of RAM and amps it up with the following:
- An AMD EPYC™ 7543P CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads
- The power of a high-end GPU, ranging from:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3070-class
- NVIDIA’s equivalent graphic cards tailored for professionals
- AMD’s latest RDNA 2 based GPUs, including the AMD Radeon™ PRO V620 GPU designed for cloud-computing and gaming
- 16 GB of RAM
Although the base system might be a little lighter on Ray Tracing, there are still plenty of new ideas coming to the starting tier. Everybody using a cloud PC now gets dual and remote screen updates, enhanced colors with 4:4:4 chroma subsampling, and the release of Shadow VR in Early Access, the first-ever VR experience entirely powered by the cloud.
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As well as an improved service offering, Shadow announced territorial expansions and new products for the future. The company’s cloud computing will move out into new data centers, beyond the current eight across France, Germany, the United States, and Canada. This means consumers in Canada and Austria can look forward to hooking up later this fall.
Shadow also confirmed a new tier of Shadow Business Solutions for professionals with specific performance and security requirements, as well as a hosted file storage solution, titled Shadow Drive. While the business desktops might be pricey, the secure online storage solution is free, with 20GB for free and a paid version with up to 2TB on offer.
Shadow Drive will be available in soft launch with selected users this summer, and available to all in Europe this fall, and soon in North America. To find out more, or order your own Shadow check out the revamped Shadow website now.
