Shadow: Rent a beasty machine accessible from anywere

I was a customer of theirs for the better part of a year, up until I finally got my hands on an xbox series x. The good is that it generally performs as advertised: really smooth streaming, very low latency, never had an issue with installing any games I wanted to.

Downsides were that it became much pricier over time, there was a long waitlist to get access to it, and I did have some trouble getting my xbox controllers to work consistently with it from a Mac host. (Some of those may be worked out now.)

I think in general its an excellent solution to a problem most people don't have. It didn't really outperform stadia or Nvidia GFN by a wide enough margin, and the only real advantage was having the whole of a windows box to work with when you needed it (I never did, and probably would have used a virtual machine if I did.)

I've been following this company for a while now, and others like it, and I'm really wondering how the economics of these rent-a-big-GPU services shake out. The specs say you get a GeForce GTX 1080 (or equivalent, so maybe they're licensing NVIDIA vGPUs or something)... do they actually have one big GPU per subscription, or do I just have access to a big GPU whenever I want? You can't slice up a GPU as effectively as you can slice up CPU cores... Filling up a datacenter with big GPUs seems like a very expensive proposition.