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Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch

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    tildez
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    I haven't tried Stadia yet, but these don't seem like crucial features to me. Maybe 4k is a big deal? I'm surprised it can even handle 4k tbh, I wonder what GPUs they have doing the rendering....

    I haven't tried Stadia yet, but these don't seem like crucial features to me. Maybe 4k is a big deal? I'm surprised it can even handle 4k tbh, I wonder what GPUs they have doing the rendering. Maybe it's just upsampling?

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    1. Lawrencium265
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      Looks like the 4k limitation was discussed back in march when the gpu architecture was first announced. https://fossbytes.com/google-stadia-gpu-vega-graphics/ AMD has since released a new gpu...

      Looks like the 4k limitation was discussed back in march when the gpu architecture was first announced.
      https://fossbytes.com/google-stadia-gpu-vega-graphics/

      AMD has since released a new gpu architecture which is bad for google here because they invested in custom gpus for this project.

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