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DisplayPort 1.3 Has Arrived, Drives 4K At 120 Hz

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September 15, 2014 1:15:33 PM

The DisplayPort 1.3 standard has arrived, and it is damn impressive!

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September 15, 2014 1:29:39 PM

I cannot understand the industry to not dump HDMI 2.0 for Displayport. The only 4k TV available with a Displayport 1.2 is the Panasonic AX800. A damn shame since it is the only option to plug your 4k PC to a screen bigger than 30 inches.
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September 15, 2014 1:35:20 PM

This might excite dozens of users.
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September 15, 2014 1:46:01 PM

I, for one, welcome our new interface overlords.
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a b U Graphics card
September 15, 2014 2:08:54 PM

Glorious!
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September 15, 2014 2:17:37 PM

Im not holding my breath, I'm predicting pascal launch time frame for a 12 bit 120hz 4k monitor.
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September 15, 2014 2:18:11 PM

Any word on the new micro DisplayPort connector?
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September 15, 2014 2:37:19 PM

Cool, now we just need single video cards that are able to drive games at that resolution and frequency.
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September 15, 2014 2:43:44 PM

The best Tom's news I've read all year!
Asus, will you pretty please make a 120Hz 4k IPS in time for Christmas? :-)
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September 15, 2014 3:26:58 PM

When will we see this on a video card? 2020?
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September 15, 2014 5:02:42 PM

No mention of display syncing as part of the standard. What happened to AMD's answer to GSync?
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September 15, 2014 6:06:22 PM

drezzz said:
No mention of display syncing as part of the standard. What happened to AMD's answer to GSync?


No mention because it's a tiny part of the spec and not even a product and was introduced in 1.2a so it's not like it would be a big announcement for it to still be in 1.3.
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September 15, 2014 8:19:38 PM

Single gpu setups still have trouble running games at 60 fps at 4k let alone 120 fps. I'm not going to be excited until a 1440p IPS panel with Gsync and acceptable response times come out.
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September 15, 2014 8:31:05 PM

Just skipped right over us that have been using 2560 x 1600 (2K) displays for many years now with the 120hz option. Will have to move to 4K over 30 inches at 120hz as soon as someone makes one for less than 2 grand.
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September 15, 2014 8:54:50 PM

Useful invention...This display port will be useful for many people..
Thanks.
Jaslynn from Bizbilla b2b portal
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September 16, 2014 1:50:09 AM

You guys are going bananas over 4k and 120hz , i wonder how many of you guys have a rig that can push 120 FPS at 4k ? :) 
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September 16, 2014 6:26:36 AM

I guess it's good to have a cable with the bandwidth to push 120Hz on a 4K monitor, but there's no reason to drive a 4K monitor at 120Hz if you have a monitor with an adaptive sync technology such as G-sync. Freesync monitors are also supposed to become available in the near future. Acer will be releasing a 4K G-sync monitor next year.

If you think of it 4K is the equivalent of 4 1080p screens. For 4K, you'll still need 3 or 4 980s (if initial specs are correct) to drive the most demanding games on ultra at frame rates consistently above 60 and a lot of times you won't be anywhere near the 120fps mark. In 5-10 years, it will be a different story.

For now, I think monitor manufacturers should focus on adaptive-sync technologies as they really make a huge difference in performance and provide more value for more people.
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September 16, 2014 7:34:39 AM

Yet these HDTVs also have antiquated VGA connections isntead of Display Port
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September 16, 2014 7:40:29 AM

will anyone reply me if gtx titan black supports 1.3 display port or not?
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September 16, 2014 8:57:07 AM

Good.

Personally I'm perfectly fine with 1080p60fps though... Just need better motion resolution and better displays overall. An OLED 1080p60hz display with a good Strobing technology for motion clarity would be perfect.
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September 16, 2014 9:22:51 AM

They'll never put displayport on conventional HDTVs as long as "big content" has its way. The sole purpose for HDMI's existence in the first place was for its built-in copy protection and handshaking; a way they can control who sees what and who can transfer what over what. Displayport to my knowledge has no mandatory DRM scheme like HDMI, so Hollywood and media creating corporations will forever lobby the FCC against making displayport a standard connector in the US at least.
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September 16, 2014 9:25:51 AM

The new consoles don't even use DP. Blu-ray players don't use DP. Audio receivers don't use DP. So I don't see DP going places in the mainstream HDTV world until the market dictates a demand for it.
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September 16, 2014 9:27:26 AM

Huh cool! But I'm still waiting for HDMI 2.0 to really be implemented.

So when are 4k 120hz monitors coming out? Are their Korean overclockable 4k monitors?
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September 16, 2014 8:26:59 PM

Yet it seems every computers comes with VGA. They are just now finally starting to include DVI or HDMI but can't make up their minds. Just keep up with the times PC makers. When people buy a PC and find their old screen won't work they curse the progress of technology and will either buy an adapter or a new screen.

Just let VGA die already.
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September 17, 2014 2:07:00 AM

@StormyIV

If you can afford a 4k 120hz screen, then you can afford a multi gpu setup
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September 17, 2014 2:25:25 AM

safcmanfr said:
@StormyIV

If you can afford a 4k 120hz screen, then you can afford a multi gpu setup


Sadly i don`t think there`s any multi GPU setup that can drive 4k at 120 FPS, guess Ultra settings since going for 4k is all about picture quality nobody would care about low settings.

To me this looks like a 1080p 120 Hz monitor in the TNT2 era or maybe Geforce 1/2.
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September 18, 2014 12:41:39 AM

This is far more interesting news to the A/V tech and Show production community than to the gamer community. This allows multiple screens to be run off a single rig with a single or cross-fired enterprise card setup that would otherwise have required two. The FirePro 9100 with 6 1.2 Displayports comes to mind. Being able to run 24 simultaneous 1080p @ 120HZ screens with 6 Displayport 1.3's (or some equivalent combination) can be very useful in a lot of applications. Big projection projects, Show production that has multiple highly time senstive video cues on a number of different screens, etc.

The options now are quite expensive (even relatively speaking), require shifting between too many connection formats (and often bottle necking quality) or using very expensive purpose built DNC/SDI platforms. An HDMI matrix with a computer control interface will usually run at more than a couple times the cost of the rig itself and there will potentially be an inherent lag built in. Running multiple rigs means multiple technicians and therefore higher costs, more space requirement and exponentially greater risk for coordination related errors.

Basically there is a massive gap in show scale production costs. Once you pass 12 screens @ 1080p, your costs at least triple while they stay somewhat steady per screen between 4 and 12. This is almost entirely due to available hardware output ports and not necessarily the cost of processing power. Now the scaling smooths out up to 24 with a jump that isn't unacceptable because other investments will have to be made per screen along the way anyway.
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September 19, 2014 7:33:04 PM

So when can I order my next Alienware laptop with 3 display port 1.3 connectors to drive 3 4k monitors at 120h
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