Samsung guarantees massive issues with the primary DisplayPort 2.1 8K ultrawide monitor
On: November 4, 2022
AMD unveiled some fairly tasty-looking graphics playing cards yesterday within the type of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT coming in at $999 and $899 respectively. These playing cards have loads of new options up their sleeves together with DisplayPort 2.1, the brand new connection customary that helps larger refresh charges at excessive resolutions. It additionally supplied up a sneaky peek at Samsung’s first 8K ultrawide monitor, the Odyssey Neo G9.
The one downside with this explicit display is that it is not actually an 8K panel, attributable to its ultrawide configuration. For reference, 8K ought to formally be 7680×4320, which equates to a frankly staggering 33.2M pixels. For comparability, 4K is 3840×2160 for a complete of 8.3M pixels. The footnote on the presentation identified although, the Samsung display gives 8K horizontal solely.
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Given the prevailing Odyssey Neo G9 has a 32:9 side ratio, that may result in a local decision of 7680×2160 for a complete of 16.6M pixels or roughly half the complete decision of a real 8K show.
It would most likely nonetheless be a formidable show to sit down in entrance of, and punishing sufficient for many graphics playing cards. It is price stating that that is solely the vanguard of a complete slew of 8K shows too, with Acer, Asus, Dell, and LG anticipated to point out off 8K screens at CES 2023. These screens will assist the brand new DisplayPort 2.1 customary too, with all of the high-refresh goodness that comes with that.
You are as much as 900Hz at 1440p, 480Hz at 4K, and 165Hz at 8K. Good. Clearly, AMD hopes that high-refresh avid gamers will wish to seize considered one of its new RDNA 3 to achieve entry to those ridiculously excessive refresh charges, significantly as Nvidia has caught with DisplayPort 1.4 for its Ada Lovelace GPUs.
Sure, considerably amazingly given the uncooked energy on provide, Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 4090 graphics playing cards are restricted to half these refresh charges attributable to sticking with the earlier customary.
AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT graphics playing cards will launch on December 13. We are able to anticipate to see extra 8K displays introduced at CES 2023 in the beginning of January.
