Stadia may be getting an Nvidia GPU upgrade

pcgamer.com:

It's taken a bit of a run up but gaming using a streaming service to handle the hardware side of things is becoming more viable, and thus more popular. This shift in the climate has come with more support from the big companies. Microsoft, for example, is really pushing forward its Edge browser(opens in new tab) as a game streaming platform, and Google looks to be getting back into the game with Stadia, or whatever that's called now.

An anonymous source revealed a potential upcoming change for Google's streaming hardware. The information shared with 9to5Google(opens in new tab) points to the megacorp integrating Nvidia technologies into its streaming, which is a new change for the platform. 

Stadia was powered by custom built AMD GPUs specifically for the game streaming job. Thanks to its open source nature, a modified version of Stadia's Linux Kernel has given an extra clue to these changes. The automated builder has been set to include support for the use of Nvidia GPUs.

It's impossible to say what exactly this means for Google's streaming service, but implementing a change to work with totally different hardware does feel like a significant one. Unfortunately there are no clues as to which Nvidia GPUs are being supported, but there's still plenty of speculation as to what's going on here to be had.

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Given the current purpose built nature of Stadia's setup, it's very unlikely Google is tossing out the AMD