Microsoft’s Phil Harrison Explains that Xbox One’s Cloud Can Actually Improve Graphics

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nightsurge said:

fatslob-:O said:
There is no way microsoft can improve rendering on the xbone with cloud unless microsoft decides to employ rendering servers to every city or town to mitigate the transfer times of each partial frames. Even if microsoft did choose to do it they would suffer losses left and right because now they have to spend more money to improve their rendering infrastructure to gain a noticeable boosts in performance plus they will only be making losses when attempting this strategy.

You missed the mark entirely. They aren't using the cloud to render... they are using it to offload processing (mostly cpu intensive stuff) to free up local resources for better graphics.

That's very possible.

The workload that they will offload will mean little for rendering because like you said they are offloading CPU intensive tasks not GPU intensive tasks and you know what that means ? It will be meaningless in the end because CPU's are not used a whole lot for rendering purposes, now if you said they were offloading GPU workloads that would be a whole different story in itself.