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pyroth309
6 years agoVisionary
DaftnDirect said:
Interesting times. I'd like to know more about Google's server based gaming (or I suppose cloud-based is the term these days).
Is tflop performance completely independent of internet performance? or is some sort of throttle necessary to compensate for any lag? If so, claims of performance could be similar to service providers claims of performance and we'll have 'up to' inserted in small print at the bottom of the adverts.
Tflops is a measurement of the GPU power but it doesn't always translate directly to more FPS. There's other factors with architecture. 1 Tflop = 1 trillian floating-point operations per second. For example the Radeon VII has 13.8 TFLOPS and gets beat by the 1080TI for a lot of games in FPS. Drivers and API matter as well.
The Google Server spec for Stadia is 10.7 Tflops of power so it's close to a 1080TI which is 11.3 but since it's an AMD card on the server it's probably more like a 1080 in gaming performance.
If you play a game on it, it can provide that kind of graphical fidelity. That's not accounting for the lag, Google hopes you forget about input lag.