If it has discrete AMD or NVIDIA graphics released in 2016 or later: DisplayPort 1.4.
I’ve got a Dell 3007WFP-HC from 2006 that still works just fine, so you can quit that noise. It sucks too much electricity, but my room is toasty in the winter.
Right, but as you say there’s two pieces to the puzzle. The GPU has to support it, then they have to have support to send it out of the device. There’s not many I’m finding that call out support for DisplayPort 1.4 or support for up to 5K on the external in their spec sheets. But I can understand why, 5K isn’t something that’s a big deal for the vast majority of PC users, so the fact that their computers just support 4K over HDMI is fine for them.
Since higher end PC laptops tend to be gaming laptops, there’s no real incentive to support higher than 4K output anyways since driving anything higher than 4K is either impossible from a frame rate perspective or simply not desirable as game devs are going to coalesce their resolution targets at 1080p, 1440p and 2160p since the vast majority of monitors and HDTVs sold today fall into those three resolution ranges. Oddball resolutions are not lowest common denominator stuff and games have to target the LCD to recoup their investment given the relatively high cost of game dev in the year 2022. That being said, my Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX580 GPU supports DP1.4 and 5K at 60Hz. Not an OLD card, but certainly not a NEW card.
The 3D lens is a pain in the butt to swap and cinemas dumped all the projectionists. So solution…..3D all the time. Most AMC theaters didn’t order enough 2D lenses anyway. We are better off at home with an Apple TV and a nice display.
After setting up my Ergotron arm, I can't understand why anyone would not go VESA. The fully adjustable setup might be the biggest single improvement over my old iMac from a day-to-day use standpoint.
That’s been kinda what I’ve been finding. While a lot of PC’s have the potential to drive 5K, their output is limited so today’s mass market PC’s are locked at 4K, I’m guessing a little wait before we’ll see them driving 8K out.
I had my 20" ACD for 10 years. Only moved on for a better screen (5K iMac). Worked perfectly the day I sold it.
Does the display wobble at all? I have a nano-texture VESA model on order, but the store near me had a standard model with the height-adjustment stand on Friday, so I also picked that one up to compare as I’m not yet sure if I want the standard or nano-screen. I have a fairly inexpensive VESA mount for my LG UltraFine 5K, and while it wobbles less than the included stand, it is still a bit wobbly. The Apple height-adjustment stand is rock solid at any height.
As I’m sure you know, the Huawei MateView’s 3:2 aspect ratio provides 6.7% more height than 16:10 at the same width.
I personally think 8K is a non-starter for a lot of reasons, not to be a contrarian or Luddite, but because there simply isn’t a compelling enough reason to try and rework existing 4K workflows to accommodate 8K. I don’t see that many 4K HDR workflows as it is right now, and 4K content can easily upscale to 8K. Just my opinion, not an indictment of tech moving forward. But I agree with you that 5K on the PC is also a complete non-starter except for high end workstation laptops, definitely not gaming laptops.
I don’t think it’s ludditic to think that. Just looking into the 5K landscape for the past few days highlights a performance disparity I was unaware of previously. It’s one of those situations where if you make it, they’re not going to come, mainly because they just don’t have a way to get there
