Gigabyte Demonstrates 4K on Intel HD4000 via Dual Thunderbolt
4K from Intel HD4000 graphics.
4K (or Ultra HD) is all the rage at this year's CES, but it's not just for high end televisions. We stopped by Gigabyte's suite to check out the GA-Z77X-UP5 TH motherboard. Hasn't this motherboard been available since summer of 2012, you ask? Yes, but it has learned a new trick: outputting a 4K video signal.
Thanks to a new Intel driver feature called Collage, Gigabyte was able to demonstrate 4K video output from the Intel HD4000 integrated graphics. This was made possible through the dual Thunderbolt outputs that were further split through a pair of multi-monitor dongles connected to four 1920x1200 monitors. The four displays combined created an overall resolution of 3840x2400.
This new feature will be available in a driver update that should be available at the end of January for both the UP5 and UP4.
While even more extreme resolutions are possible through other discrete graphics options, this is a first for the Intel HD4000 and could prove to be an attractive alternative for those seeking a more energy efficient solution.



so another 2 years before they make a 42" monitor at 4k resolution? sweet
if it requires lightpeak to transfer that much data at 1ms i guess that's alright.
just stop calling it ultra HD. 10-15 years from now it's all going to look like 8 bit nintendo graphics anyways
/sarcasm
I'm looking at you Asus as well, hurry up with that thunderboltEX
Scientific research already surpassed that... and even today it would be applicable to certain degree (in a year or 2, complete practical implementation).
Capitalism on the other hand operates on market based cost-efficiency.
They will only switch to that new technology when it becomes cheap enough to produce (nevermind we have more than enough resources and technology to do it in abundance several times over), and only when they instill planned obsolescence into it.
Good question. But four monitors running 1080P on one mobo LOOKS more impressive than running one TV at 4K.
actually it just looks stupid with all that bevel around .
Sharp just announced a 30" 4K monitor. No word about price.
There are monitors now that minimise or remove the bezel altogether.
Or at least that's the idea for AMD's Six Monitor Eyefinity
Umm, Intel has been doing this since GMA 900 (or before?). 4k resolution, on the other hand...
With DisplayPort, several AMD and Nvidia cards can have four 2560x1600 displays. Some AMD cards can directly have six and I've seen even up to 24 displays in extreme Eyefinity solutions.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6600/intel-haswell-gt3e-gpu-performance-compared-to-nvidias-geforce-gt-650m
Looking at what little info we have on their upcoming GT3 graphics, it may be accurate to compete with a GT 650M or maybe even better, but I'll wait for some more serious confirmation before I believe it.
because how many 4k displays have 4 Dual Link DVI or 2 HDMI/ Display port connectors?, most would have 2 dvi and 1 of each HDMI and display port. You still need 2 cables to drive 4k right now on 1 moniter. none have 4 ports that can re-combine the signal from 4 sources.