New Chromebook owners are getting an exclusive free Nvidia GeForce Now subscription for one year — Fast Pass gives Chromebook gamers ad-free priority access to cloud servers

The subscription takes some perks from Nvidia's outgoing "Performance" subscription, giving Chromebook gamers the plan's ad-free experience and priority access, and combining it with 10 hours of game time per month. The allotted time can peak to 15 hours per month, but only if five of those hours were unused during the previous month and rolled over.

With Fast Pass, Chromebook owners will be able to stream over 2,000 PC titles from a plethora of supported existing libraries, including Steam, the Epic Games Store, Xbox, and more. It is likely the Fast Pass subscription will inherit the same hardware access as the free plan with the "basic rig" since Fast Pass's game accessibility matches the free plan. By contrast, the Performance and Ultimate subscriptions get access to more than 4,000 games and the service's new "Install-to-Play" feature.

With Fast Pass, Chromebook gamers will be able to play PC games on their device, which Chromebooks can't do without Cloud gaming. These laptops don't run on Windows and typically boast low-power SoCs that prioritize battery life over raw performance, making them only good enough (usually) to play web or mobile games natively.

GeForce Now is Nvidia's cloud gaming service, which gives gamers access to a fast virtual machine linked to a dedicated GPU from almost any device imaginable. The base plan offers a 1080p 60 FPS experience, but the ultimate plan provides support for up to 360 FPS with up to a 5K resolution (but not at the same time).

We were impressed with the quality and performance of Nvidia's ultimate plan when its RTX 4080 tier first launched. Nvidia has since updated its flagship plan with its RTX 5080 upgrade, boasting improvements to quality, latency, and enabling Blackwell features like DLSS 4 multi-frame generation. Surprisingly, Nvidia claims input latency with its RTX 5080 servers is so low that multi-frame generation is feasible.

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