Shadow Cloud Computing - BASIC RIG TESTED IN 13 GAMES - Good enough for 1080p 60FPS?

Описание: 13 GAMES TESTED on the Shadow standard system. https://shadow.tech/specs/
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 or equivalent
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro P5000 (GeForce GTX 1080 equivalent)
RAM: 12GB
Storage: 256GB (Upgradable up to 2 TB HDD)
Windows 10 Home 21H2

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0:00 - Intro
0:04 - Shadow Tech information
0:59 - system information
3:06 - Apex Legends
5:36 - GTA V singleplayer
7:14 - GTA V online
8:11 - DotA 2
9:53 - Warzone Caldera
11:50 - Overwatch 2
13:28 - Assetto Corsa Competizione
15:41 - No More Room in Hell
17:25 - Trackmania
18:36 - Witcher 3
20:19 - CS:GO
21:33 -FIFA 23
22:53 - Forza Horizon 5
24:59 - Cyberpunk 2077

Hello everyone. Welcome to a new video on this channel. Today we have a special test. We are not testing a local system but a remote gaming system from streaming provider Shadow Cloud Computing. That means we connect to a data center to use a, in theory, more powerful computer than our own. Our local PC is a Core i7 3770 with 16GB dual-channel RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, and importantly in this case a Realtek PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapter attached to a 100 MBit Fibre connection with a Cat.7 LAN cable. The latency to the Shadow data center was 7 to 10 MS. Accordingly, I hardly felt any latency in the 13 games tested in this video. So all in all, almost perfect conditions to try out a game streaming service.
But what kind of computer did we connect to? Since we're using the Shadow standard subscription for this video, we have access to an Intel Xeon E5-2678 V3 with 4 cores 8 threads, 12 GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA Quadro P5000 which should be about the performance of a GTX 1080. But wait a minute! An Intel Xeon E5-2678 has more than 4 cores and 8 threads, right? That's right, it's actually a 24-thread CPU. But somehow the whole thing has to be profitable for Shadow. Therefore they go way, to dividing this one CPU, among 3 users. Yes correctly, 2 other people can connect on the same CPU. Whether this has an effect and whether this is the only effect by which performance is sacrificed, more about that later.
By the way, the price is pretty high for a game streaming provider. The stock subscription costs 29.99 in $ € and Pounds per month. You only get 256GB of storage. You can still expand up to 2TB of storage. Against appropriate payment of the course. Also, a so-called Power Upgrade to an AMD EPYC 7543P, again with 4 cores 8 threads, 16GB memory, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 similar or AMD's latest RDNA 2-based GPU is possible. The Power Upgrade package starts at 44.98€ for the 256GB storage monthly. If you want more storage you have to pay more.
The main advantage compared to NVIDIA's GeForce Now offering and another game streaming provider is that you get access to a completely remote computer. You could accordingly use the PC for more than just gaming. I also tried some video editing, which ran without problems, and thanks to the fast symmetrical internet connection in the data center, with 1GB/s, the down or upload was very fast.
But since we are a benchmark channel and that should be our main focus, what about the performance in games?
Well, I don't think I have to say much about the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. It's still a very good GPU for playing all games on the market in 1080p high settings. In all of the 13 games tested, the graphics card never had any problems and showed a decent performance. Because you have the GPU completely to yourself with Shadow Gaming. You don't share it with other users. The situation is different for the CPU (as already mentioned), but also for the network connection.
Because neutering the Intel Xeon E5-2678 to 4 cores and 8 threads and reducing its turbo clock at the same time is not good. At least not good enough to play all games with over 60FPS. In almost all games the CPU was a heavy bottleneck for the GTX 1080, which you can see very nicely in this video when the GPU utilization in the upper left corner is not 100%. Honestly, it's 2022, and offering a quad-core CPU with 8 threads with turbo disabled for 30€ a month is a bit cheeky. But ok it's still fine for near-stable 60FPS in 1080p, right? Theoretically yes. But I had at peak times, the pleasure that another or 2 users connected to the same CPU. Of course, the two only occupy the cores and threads specified for themselves. But have you ever tried to render a video with 8 threads on a 24-thread CPU, use 8 more threads for an Android emulator and use the remaining 8 threads for gaming. Yes, it runs like crap. And the same was my experience when other users used the same CPU.