Can a GTX1080 do 360hz?

[Shinobi026]

Strange one I've been asked by a friend that I've not been able to find a conclusive answer for after some searching. He's got a fairly old machine and using a GTX1080. He's picked up a new Alienware monitor that's capable of 360hz, however he's only getting the option for 240hz on all of the resolution options he has in the Nvida control panel. It's looking like the 30 series bring in support for 360hz but in other places it says that DP1.4 should be all you need, which the GTX1080 can do (after a firmware update that is!).

I have a 3080 we could use to test this theory out, but he lives a few hours away so it's not worth doing. Wondering if anyone here ran into this issue where you monitor was 100x better than your GPU .

Thanks all!

 

[Shinobi026]

So happy to see some replies on this. Thanks so much for the info.


I didn't mention, he did already try the DP firmware update (before he even asked me—I was impressed). I'm also leaning toward it being a Pascal limitation. 360hz monitors were but a distant dream back then, so it would make a ton of sense. We have some cables on order, so this is the next thing we are attempting. I would be amazed if Dell didn't ship a cable capable of doing 360 Hz with the monitor, but I also wouldn't put it past them!


Again, thanks for the responses, it's much appreciated.