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It is almost 5 years to the day since I published my first video about Cloud Gaming, and wow, have things changed since then. Official GRID-supported GPUs from the Maxwell and Pascal lineups are less than $150, but their performance is far from ideal when it comes to modern games. If only there were some GPU out there that could run modern titles, cost right around $1000 used, and was unlocked for vGPU support…
Everyone… Meet the Nvidia RTX A5000.
But first… What am I drinking???
Lassen Aleworks, Eagle Lake IPA (Susanville, CA) 5.7%
AMD Epyc Geenoa 9554 Server Build: https://youtu.be/6PiigySWIIc
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Timestamps
0:00 – Intro
2:37 – The story so far…
5:09 – Meet the RTX A5000
6:52 – Meet the hardware
8:33 – Meet the SSDs
10:20 – Synthetic Testing
12:39 – Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
13:39 – Starfield
15:10 – Wreckfest
16:00 – Grand Theft Auto V
17:34 – Cyberpunk 2077
19:09 – Conclusion
21:53 – Beer Review