This GeForce NOW Thursday, NVIDIA brings the highly anticipated news regarding the launch date of the RTX Blackwell update: the cloud servers will be upgraded to GeForce RTX 5080-class hardware (and improved CPU as well) on Wednesday, September 10.

The rollout will be gradual as usual, so do not be alarmed if your nearest server isn't up to snuff yet. As noted in our Gamescom 2025 preview , there's a lot more than the GPU and CPU upgrade, though. Features like Cinematic Quality Streaming, Rivermax hardware packet pacing, L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss and Scalable Throughput), improved racing wheel devices support, and Steam's Install-to-Play are leveling up the experience in all regards: visuals, latency, hardware compatibility, and expanded games support.

On that note, GeForce NOW user

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