Nvidia enters cloud gaming space in India; sets April 16 launch

Nvidia is launching its GeForce Now cloud gaming subscription service in India on April 16, years after the GPU maker first announced the service’s rollout in the country. Cloud gaming allows players to stream PC games to their local devices, allowing them to access large, resource-heavy games on devices that may not have the storage or hardware capable of playing those games. 

GeForce Now comes as another heavyweight enters the Indian market — Xbox Cloud Gaming by Microsoft — betting on Indian users’ appetite for high-end gaming. Nvidia will use RTX 5080 GPUs to run games for users, with a maximum bitrate of 100 megabits per second, and server infrastructure based in Mumbai. JioCloudGaming is the other major player in the market.