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DEVINDRA HARDAWAR: One of the
biggest surprises from CES

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this year came from Nvidia.

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They introduced their new
big format gaming displays.

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These things look really crazy.

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They're 65-inch
4K TVs basically.

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But they have a lot of
technology inside that gamers

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would really appreciate.

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They have really
fast refresh rates.

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They also support Nvidia's
G-sync technology, which really

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smooths out game
play performance

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if you're having changing frame
rates or anything like that.

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They fit in just about
every piece of TV technology

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you'd want including HDR,
1000 nits of peak brightness,

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and you know, just in general,
a really great display quality.

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They have a full-rate
of backlighting.

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So you don't have
to worry about edge

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lighting or any--
any particular issues

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that you see on cheaper TVs.

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They also feature
120-hertz refresh rates,

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which are pretty high for TV.

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That means if you
have a game running up

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to 120 frames per
second, you actually

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see all of that on
the screen and you're

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not going have any of the
issues you have with other TVs

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typically.

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And of course, since
it's an Nvidia product,

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it includes their
SHIELD technology.

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They include basically
everything you'd

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see in the SHIELD set-top box.

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That includes they
run Android TV,

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and they'll also ship with the
SHIELD controller and remote.

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The one thing that these TVs
don't have is Dolby Vision.

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It's pretty clear that Nvidia's
focused on gaming performance

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and that's just not
an HDR technology

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that games really support yet.

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So we got to take a look at
one of these in-person with

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somebody playing "Destiny 2."

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And it looks pretty good.

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It looks fantastic actually.

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It is definitely the same
sort of like smooth latency

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I see with typical
PC gaming monitors

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on a much bigger screen.

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I typically game on a
55-inch OLED display.

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And this TV doesn't
look as good,

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but it's definitely
among the best

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I've seen for LCD technology.

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Basically, this is a screen
meant for gamers who don't want

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to lose anything that they have
from their awesome PC gaming

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monitors when they move
to a bigger screen.

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In my short hands-on
time with the HP display,

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I noticed that it
was just very smooth

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while playing "Destiny 2,"
definitely a little different

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from my normal TV.

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And it's the sort of
experience I'm sure PC

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gamers would really appreciate.

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And since it has Nvidia's
SHIELD technology inside,

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you'll also be able
to do everything you

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can do with that set-top box.

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So you could stream games
from your local computer.

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You could also take advantage
of G-Force Now, Nvidia's game

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streaming service.

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And speaking of G-Force Now,
we also finally got to see

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it running on low end PCs.

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Last year, we saw the service
running on a MacBook Air

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playing "The Witcher 3."

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This year, I got to see it
on even more impressively low

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powered computers.

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So I played "PlayerUnknown's
Battlegrounds" on an Acer Swift

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on G-Force Now.

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And I also sat side
by side that laptop

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running the game natively.

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It could barely play.

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It was running at like
two frames per second.

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But over G-Force
Now, it was smooth.

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It's actually running
off of a server

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with the equivalent of
a GTX graphics power.

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And it felt just as smooth as
it does on my desktop at home.

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And that's pretty impressive
for a $400 laptop.

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It basically opens up PC
gaming to just about anybody.

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And taking that to an
even cheaper laptop,

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I played "Rainbow Six
Siege" on an HP Stream.

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That's a $200 laptop.

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It felt smooth.

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The game felt really responsive.

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And I couldn't even
tell that I was

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running it off of a
data center in L.A.

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while I'm here in Las Vegas.

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Basically it seems like Nvidia
has a lot going on in 2018.

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Stay tuned to Engadget.com
for more news from CES 2018.

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