Overview
The NVIDIA Gaming AMI driver enables cloud gaming on NVIDIA T4 GPUs. The new G4 instance type features the NVIDIA T4 GPU and supports this driver on Ubuntu 18.04.
Benefits include: - Next Generation Computer Graphics. The Turing architecture featured in the T4 brings NVIDIA's gaming prowess to AWS, enabling the most demanding games to be rendered and streamed using the GPUs' hardware encoder. - Experience Super Smooth Frame Rates at High Resolutions. Games can be streamed at resolutions up to 4K and 60 FPS. - High-Powered Gaming on almost any device. Now, game publishers can build their own cloud-gaming instances based on the latest NVIDIA technology and make their entire catalog of PC titles available to gamers on nearly any device. - Always Updated. Players can enjoy all the latest games without ever needing to worry about hardware upgrades or updating drivers or patches.
Highlights
- The NVIDIA Gaming AMI driver enables cloud gaming on NVIDIA T4 GPUs.
- OpenGL, Vulkan graphics driver optimized for games
- NVIDIA Capture SDK for low-latency hardware h.264/265 streaming
Details
Typical total price
$0.526/hour
Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
g4dn.xlarge Recommended | $0.00 | $0.526 | $0.526 |
g4dn.2xlarge | $0.00 | $0.752 | $0.752 |
g4dn.4xlarge | $0.00 | $1.204 | $1.204 |
g4dn.8xlarge | $0.00 | $2.176 | $2.176 |
g4dn.12xlarge | $0.00 | $3.912 | $3.912 |
g4dn.16xlarge | $0.00 | $4.352 | $4.352 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
This AMI if Free
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
New 510.68.02 NVIDIA driver
Additional details
Usage instructions
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Support
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Support is available through forums, technical FAQs and the Service Help Dashboard.
AWS infrastructure support
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Customer reviews
doesnt work
Just spent two hourstrying to set this up, dont know how NVIDIA expects its users to use this instance. So far dont know of any one who has succesfully created this instance and played a game!
Missing Documentation
I've spent several hours attempting to find a way that the machine can be connected to remotely and have NVIDIA-accelerated GLX extension available. XRDP is out, since you don't get NVIDIA support with the xorgxrdp display device. I've also had no luck configuring VNC to both configure a working authentication and provide NVIDIA acceleration. I seem to be able to only able to get one or the other.
I'd echo the sentiments of others that more documentation is needed to make this usable.
Is this working?
This AMI does produce an instance that can be connected to via SSH, but that is about it. It's a bit of a stretch to have a GPU backed instance to play a text based MUD! LOL.
In all seriousness, I've spent at least 3 hours trying to get this instance to operate as billed. i.e. a "Gaming PC".
I used two separate instances for testing; one using GNOME 3 and the other using MATE (LightDM).
With both instances (g4dn.xlarge) I was able to install, configure and connect remotely to a GUI but even though the Nvidia drivers are installed (checked using lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' as well as nvidia-smi -q | head) they are not being used by GUI.
Tried GLX-Gears from the mesa-utils, GL mark as well as Unigine 3D's Heaven.
I'm sure this is solvable as I've seen Ubuntu Instances, backed by a GPU running remotely with NICE DCV. I think the issue may be related to making sure the GUI is using the correct display ID. I'll be working on that next.
So, Please Nvidia.. Help make this a fully-functional instance!! Better docs would be great also!