Cheapest gpu to output 144hz at 4k.

[Defy Belief]

I'm looking at buying a TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A 4k monitor 144hz.

Before buying all the hardware to suit, I fancy trying the 4080 tier of GeForce now having had a good experience in the past and the kit for a 4k pc costing a lot of money.

The i/o of the monitor has:

DisplayPort 1.4 DSC x 1
HDMI(v2.1) x 2
HDMI(v2.0) x 2

From what I've read hdmi 2.1 is RTX 3000 series onwards and the and 6800 series and onwards, but with the cost of those cards it doesn't really make sense to buy such a card to then use cloud gaming on.

So it looks like the best route would be a gpu which has DP 1.4 with DSC, cheap as possible, what would anyone suggest?

My other option would be something like a NuC with a thunderbolt 4 port and use a thunderbolt to hdmi 2.1 adapter?

All suggestions welcome

 

[Defy Belief]

6950XT or 7900XT.

I said cheapest

Looks like the 6500xt has hdmi 2.1 so that might do

 

[Defy Belief]

Just incase anyone visits this thread to do the same.

I ended up just ditching the 5700g build, to upgrade to a b650 setup with a 7600, which has onboard graphics I/O which supports 144hz @4k 10bit.

Net cost wasn't much more and saves buying a dog rough gpu to do something so simple, plus when 4k capable gpus are more affordable I will be able to drop straight in with little to no bottleneck now i'm on AM5