Google may be planning to bring Nvidia GPUs to Stadia

Since launching Stadia a few years ago, Google has maintained its AMD powered servers, using custom-built GPUs from the company. Soon, Google may make a big change, swapping out AMD GPUs with newer Nvidia options. 

Recently, Google made the decision to license out its Stadia tech so game publishers and developers can offer their own cloud games using Stadia as a backbone. According to a source speaking with 9to5Google, this is also leading to some changes to Google's servers, which will be upgraded to support both AMD and Nvidia graphics options.

There is some evidence of this available publicly already, as a code change to Stadia's open source Linux kernel adds support for Nvidia GPUs. However, since we can't inspect the included Nvidia drivers yet, we don't have more specific details.

Recently, Nvidia upgraded its own GeForce Now streaming service with RTX 3080-powered servers, offering ultra-low latency streaming at up to 120Hz. Microsoft has also upgraded its xCloud servers with Xbox Series X hardware. With that in mind, Google may have to upgrade its servers with new GPUs to sway developers to using Stadia Immersive Stream.

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KitGuru Says: While Stadia's hardware was impressive in 2019, we've had a new generation of GPUs and consoles since then, and other cloud streaming services have upgraded their services more recently. With that in mind, an upgrade to Google's back-end is bound to come sooner or later. 

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