Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate vs. Your Own RTX GPU

Nvidia's GeForce Now has changed a lot in the year since we asked the question: which is better, a new graphics card or a subscription to GeForce Now's Ultimate tier? At the time, the inferior performance compared to local hardware, bugginess, and lack of games meant the answer was definitely a new GPU. However, the introduction of faster RTX 4080 rigs and stability improvements made the cloud gaming service a much more appealing prospect in a follow-up test we ran months later.