Shadow, the cloud computing service that brings gaming to any computer screen, is back and bringing a new RTX ready Power Upgrade to consumers on 26 October.
Those of you that might have jumped on the cloud gaming train long somewhere between the demise of OnLive and Nvidia’s GeForce Now service might remember the name Shadow tech. The European desktop as a service provider brought the idea of gaming in the cloud and this influential team are back with news the anticipated power Upgrade is coming on 26 October, with pre orders for this new specification opening on 20 September.
The Power Upgrade is a brand-new twist on Shadows current desktop in the cloud. While on the move gamers can access a base model with an Intel Xeon 3.5Ghz, 12 Gb of RAM, and a GTX 1080 at its back, the Power Upgrade will bump things up to the following specification:
- An AMD EPYC™ 7543P CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads
- The power of a high-end GPU, among:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3070-class cards
- NVIDIA equivalent graphics cards designed for professionals
- The latest AMD GPUs based on the RDNA 2 architecture, including the AMD Radeon™ PRO V620 designed for cloud computing and cloud gaming
- 16GB of RAM
That means on the move VR, assuming your bandwidth is up to it, RTX gaming, and connectivity to a system that even has enough resources to simply make Cyberpunk run, probably.
Players looking to get on board and access the best PC possible over PC, Mac, mobile, and even VR will find that the service will open to consumers in Canada and Austria on 15 September. These join the existing consumer bases in France, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland,. The expansion also includes the RTX ready Power Upgrade. Gamers in Italy, Spain, Denmark, and Sweden, coming this fall. Anybody looking to check out Shadow can pick up a Power Upgrade for $14.99 per month, in addition to the base Shadow cloud-computing subscription, still available for $29.99 or local equivalent. There’s even an Early Access discount for existing subscribers who are quick off the mark too.
We had a chance to sit down and chat to Shadow at Gamescom 2022 and will have more on our thoughts later. For now, if you want to find out more about the Power Upgrade, maybe get a PC without having to build it yourself, head over to the Shadow Tech website now.
