The start of 2023 brings the first hint of 8K gamingmonitors, but we're still a few years away from 8K gaming displays being viable.
At long last, 8K is making its way to gaming monitors — or at least, that’s what Samsung’s new Odyssey Neo G9 2023 is pushing toward as it ushers in a new generation of gaming displays. But 8K isn’t new in itself — it’s been in the mainstream gaming conscience for nearly three years with GPUs and consoles — so why haven’t we seen more 8K gaming monitors?
Related Monitors evolve year over year, so it’s strange we haven’t seen more development in 8K on the monitor front. The most practical reason has been the connection standards. Even at a 60Hz refresh rate, an 8K monitor requires a data rate of around 50 Gbps. HDMI 2.1, which supports around 45Gbps of data, only became widely supported in 2020, and DisplayPort 1.4 only supports around 26Gbps.
The ecosystem surrounding DisplayPort 2.1 is the problem right now. AMD’s RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT support DisplayPort 2.1, and they’re wildly powerful GPUs, but Nvidia’s latest RTX 40-series graphics cards don’t. Similarly, the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are locked to HDMI 2.1. That connection supports 8K at 60Hz, but these consoles aren’t nearly powerful enough to drive that resolution .
Lies of P - Exclusive 8K Gameplay Footage on Radeon RX 7900 XTX At the very least, we’ll need to wait for next-gen Nvidia GPUs before we have a full PC ecosystem supporting DisplayPort 2.1, and even then, it could be another few years before we see monitors supporting DisplayPort 2.1 at reasonable prices. On top of that, there’s a much more pressing reason 8K hasn’t made it to the monitor world quite yet.
A premium 4K display like the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 consumes considerably more power as a typical 4K display due to a high refresh rate and local dimming. The cost for extra power is insignificant in most parts of the world, but more power means more heat. This isn’t an unsolvable issue. LCD backlights have gotten remarkably efficient, and that’s mainly because there is so much energy wasted through the various stages of a screen. By contrast, OLED doesn’t have that energy loss, but OLED technology isn’t nearly as efficient right now. Further optimizations in OLED could make it far more energy-efficient, and we’re already seeing that now.
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