http://www.geforce.co.uk/whats-new/...k-revolution-the-next-big-thing-for-pc-gamers
Pure PR Spin to sell GPU's to power a 4K display really some of its very laughable
Well of course it is, the amusing part is that for quite some time their cards haven't worked with 4K monitors due to stupid typical nVidia bureaucracy, where they were keeping features out of their drivers and restricting them to professional cards only (in this instance it's being able to set up dual display surround instead of triple).
Most PC games will look worse not better due to low res textures & console LOD
No they won't. Games will still look better, textures won't look any worse than they already do on displays of a comparable size. It'll still be an increase in image quality.
2160P gaming with 2160P textures + Full DX11 feature set used throughout the game will look stunning but that's almost 10 years away until the next gen consoles can handle it basically (they cannot even handle 1080P on the PS4+XB1 without big compromises & they have not even launched yet!!). I guess Nvidia have to hang onto something now they only have the PC to sell their GPU's to I guess
There's no such thing as 2160P textures. You mean high resolution textures, which is something that are already available.
DX11 isn't in control of graphical fidelity, or quality. It's just a feature set, and the set of features are there to increase efficiency.
It's also not 10 years away. We have had games that look significantly better than console games for years on PC, it's not going to be any different.
nVidia have been smacktalking the consoles due to them not getting a look in, and it is very much a case of cognitive dissonance with them (we can't have it? well it's crap and we didn't even want it anyway).
The article says to run at 4K resolution you need an SLI setup such as the 700 series or SLI Titans, seeing what some people run on here with surround setups I think they run well past 3840x2160 with smooth gameplay.
This isn't true, though it's not a surprise that they say it, they want to sell more graphics cards.
There will be plenty of decent looking games that will play fine on single graphics cards on a 4K display.
I've played a few games on a single 6950 at 7680x1440 with maximum settings bar AA, which doesn't need to be maxed on 2560x1440 monitors. The same goes even more so for 4K displays.
Fallout New Vegas, which is by no means a bad looking game, ran very well on a single 6950 at the above resolution, so it will most definitely run comparably at 4K.
Granted, you will need lots of graphics power to run the latest most visually intensive games at 4K but it's not a must for "games" in general.
What interests me is that 3840x2160 is exactly double 1920x1080 does that mean if you have a single card and output 1920x1080 can the screen upscale to 3840x2160 in a similar fashion to the retina iPads? And what impact would that have on visual quality, obviously not as good as native but I think it might still look quite good.
You would simply set the resolution to be 1920x1080, this acheives the exact same result on a game by game basis and would look no different to 1080P on a display of the same size, as you're using a resolution that is evenly divisible.
If you have 2 displays of the same size, one 1920x1080 and another at 3840x2160, a 2x2 grid of pixels on the 4K display would be identical in size to the 1080P display's pixels, so a 1080P feed would look exactly the same on them.
Double the dimensions 4x the pixel count.
It does, but the GPU performance requirements don't go up linearly (ie, you don't need 4x the GPU power for 4K than you do for 1920x1080).
