The French cloud firm SHADOW has just put out 'Neo', a big update to its cloud PC service. This new level is here instead of the old 'Boost', and it brings big gains in how well it works for games and other apps. If you had 'Boost' before, you now have 'Neo', and it still costs $37.99 each month (without taxes).
The Neo level has some cool new parts:
- CPU AMD EPYC with 8 fake cores, runs at 3.25-3.8GHz.
- GPU Its power is like an NVIDIA RTX 4060 with 16GB of VRAM (really, a server kind NVIDIA RTX 2000 ADA 16GB).
- RAM 16GB of DDR5.
- Net A fast 1Gb/s fiber link.
- System Pick between Windows 10 or Windows 11.
SHADOW says these parts can make games run up to 150% better and other apps up to 200% better than before with 'Boost'.
Olivier Abecassis, the boss at Shadow, talks about how useful the new setup is:
"Neo is our best and most useful cloud PC yet. Play games in 2K, edit big 3D stuff, or work from anywhere. Shadow Neo gives you all the power of a top-end PC — right away and from any place."
New setups help cool graphics tech like DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.3, RTX, DLSS, FSR, and Frame Generation. This last thing is only in the RTX 4060-like GPU in Neo but not in the old RTX 3070 Ti found in SHADOW's pricier 'Power' level ($50/month). This may make the 'Power' level less hot since Neo might work just as well or even better in games that use Frame Generation. It looks like SHADOW might have to make the 'Power' tier better soon to keep it in the race.
You may see SHADOW's prices are higher than some, like NVIDIA's GeForce NOW, which lets you play RTX 4080 games for about $20 a month. But SHADOW lets you have a whole Windows PC in the cloud. So, you're not just paying to play some games; you can put in any kind of app or game mods, which you can't do on things like GeForce NOW or Boosteroid. This full PC choice is what SHADOW talks up.
