legend Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Anyone have any pointers to rumors/leaks regarding Nvidia supporting HDMI 2.1 on their next refresh? Once I realized that upgrading my GPU would be dumb without upgrading my whole PC, I put my upgrade plans on hold. The nice thing about waiting and doing a whole PC upgrade is we're now reaching a panacea of new technologies that will make my next PC upgrade extremely worthwhile. To name a few, Ray tracing is now possible. AMD CPUs have solid single threaded performance while also giving very good multi-threaded support, which seems like it will be increasingly important. NVMe SSDs are game changing for loading times and streaming. LG OLEDs have the beautiful OLED tech, 4K, HDR, low response time, and HDMI 2.1 support with the particularly important support for VRR. (I plan on pairing this PC upgrade with a new LG TV.) Current Nvidia cards are even supporting VRR as it is with the LG OLED's. But the catch is that it still doesn't have the full bandwidth being that its HMDI 2.0 hardware with only support for (some of) the 2.1 spec. That puts me in a position where I would like to wait for 2.1 support on the video card to pull the trigger. It's kind of the one missing piece and it would be unfortunate to upgrade to only have to upgrade the video card shortly after. So, are there any indications that the next refresh will have it? I'm hoping that because they made a big deal about their current cards supporting VRR on LG TVs that it is something they care about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spork3245 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: @Spork3245 No one knows. @legend, IMO, you’re best off waiting for the refresh anyway, as, even if it offers the same HDMI 2.0 spec as the RTX 2xxx cards, at least you should have way better ray-tracing performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 There is no evidence, but considering that its now possible to have it and that next gen consoles will support it, I can all but guarantee that the next GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia will sport HDMI 2.1 ports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 This source says there is a pretty good chance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted November 3, 2019 Author Share Posted November 3, 2019 Alright then. I'll keep waiting and keep my eyes peeled. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cusideabelincoln Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Since the standard is already in display devices it should be in the next generation of, at least, high end video cards. I'm only slightly surprised AMD's recent 5700 cards don't have HDMI 2.1 because they usually adopt standards before they take off (they were the first to implement DisplayPort), but they are really just the mid-range cards of the "new" generation/architecture, and can't really handle 4k beyond 60 Hz anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 On 11/3/2019 at 10:45 AM, Mr.Vic20 said: Buy early and buy often. edited for accuracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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