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4K gaming likely to be doable in 2013?

andybird123

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I've been reading up on a few articles on 4K screens due out this year and even a Sony 55" TV which is up for pre-order now in the US at $5000, which surprised me how low in price these are starting to come.

The one problem for gaming is that many of these screens do not actually have a display port 1.2 connector (needed for single cable 4K 60hz display).
They tend to come with multi-HDMI solutions which split the screen per cable, which is currently more doable on AMD hardware that on Nvidia which seems to only like working 1 cable 1 screen, or 3 cables 3 screens.

Sharp and Viewsonic are both due to release 4K displays with DP 1.2 around about now.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/3/4/the-state-of-4k-and-4k-gaming-early-2013.aspx
 
I'm not talking about it becoming the norm, even 2560x1440 isn't the norm now, but it is dooable and has been for quite some time... did you read the article? looks like GPU's handle it ok

and from 30K to well under 5K in around 1-2 years is an amazing achievment
 
I think 4K is overkill, on a 55" screen 2560x1440P or even 1920 x 1080P is perfectly good.

Unless your sitting 6 inches away from it....
 
spoffle said:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/12/seiki-50-inch-4k-1300/

Also, on the actual topic, 4K won't be that demanding. Triple 2560x1440 is more demanding, and there's hardware out that supports that and has been for some time.
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:eek: amazing price
only 30hz though as only hdmi 1.4

but still, for a TV that's an incredible price

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/SEIKI-SE50UY04-50-4K-3840x2160-TV-Unboxing-and-Preview

will definitely be interesting to see if we get a Display Port to HDMI 2.0 converter available later on down the line
 
it is both, the receiver on the TV is HDMI 1.4, so it will only support 30hz input - though the TV can interpolate to 120hz, this would cause severe input lag in gaming

display port 1.2 can output at 60hz, but this TV can only receive at 30hz, we need TV's that have HDMI 2.0 or monitors (like the Sharp one) that have DP 1.2
 
spoffle said:
With the proper output the TV is supposed to support up to 120Hz.
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Your misunderstanding that,

Where it says 120hz this is not mean it can do 120fps.

The 120hz is actually really low for a modern screen most new decent lcd's are running at around 800hz and plasmas 3000hz.
 
humbug said:
I think 4K is overkill, on a 55" screen 2560x1440P or even 1920 x 1080P is perfectly good.

Unless your sitting 6 inches away from it....
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You make a fair point if you're sitting on your couch a fair few feet away. I however play about 2 feet away at best from my 27'' Monitor (2560x1440) all the higher res juice I can get in the future will be more than welcome. I'll end up getting a 4K Monitor/TV once I've seen one in the flesh and see how it weighs up to what I'm running. I also have no idea what the resolution would do to sports games.. would it just show the whole stadium in one image ?
 
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