Hardware

They take what they feel like and discard others. It’s typical for them

"new" "major" feature to help sell the new cards. Let's say you got a 4090, upgrade your panel, and then realized you're gonna need DP 2.1 because you got a 20k super HD oled monitor... time to drop $ for that 5090.

There is "Display Stream Compression" or DSC that I believe can help with the bandwith constraints from 1.4a to 2.1 but it's compression and may cause latency/quality loss - in general you just lose future proof as AMD already has DP 2.1 meaning they can fully support the 540hz monitors for example or any high quality panel.

The refresh cards still use the same silicon, just with a different amount of disabled functional units. Enabling DP 2.1 might require an expensive partial redesign, which Nvidia doesn't really have any incentive to do, since people will buy the GPUs anyway.

Nvidia always makes it a big deal when they do support the newest standards.

It might be nieche for now but Nvidia skimping out on it in their 4000 series was just weird given the price of these products.

How can the internet pass on the ability to dunk on Nvidia.

I bet you’ll have comments going on about shit VRAM too

Expensive cards will be connected to expensive monitors, and expensive monitors like the Samsung Neo G9 uses this connector

there’s barely even any monitors anyway.

it’s like nvidia and the consoles: AMD can do whatever they want but the market penetration isn’t there until nvidia is onboard. Monitors are a low-margin high-volume business and you can’t support an advanced product that tops out at 10% addressable market.

Let alone when that brand’s customers are notoriously “thrifty”…

But but but there's that one Samsung monitor everyone trots out every time the subject is brought up! Obviously every 7000 series owner has one, though I can't fathom what game even a 7900XTX could drive at 4K super ultrawide at 240Hz.

There was some kind of recent issue with a new fatty monitor requiring 2.1, right? I remember people rubbing it in Nvidia's face over it. This article just reads funny, like dunking on Nvidia for not putting money into something that had literally 0 tech available for it in the forseeable future and then laughing at them for adding it when there's finally tech to use it.

Because HDMI is a pain in the ass and everybody who is using a PC is expecting to use DisplayPort.

They don’t care about that detail

48 vs 54 is roughly 12.5% more bandwidth. In the PC hardware world, 12% isn't often considered very close.

That 12.5% increased bandwidth allows this 8k monitor, to be easily run at 240hz 10 bit color with DSC.

I find it quite strange nvidia didnt try to upsell it in Ada GPU, like only offer DP 2.1 on AD102, AD103. The lower end get support next gen.

I think this is just about a given, tbh. nVidia GPUs are going to benchmark like shit in 2025 with low VRAM totals now that we're at the point where the games needing more VRAM are actually out.

Although that's mostly going to be a thing for the mid-range (and low-end if they return to that market). For 4070+ GPUs VRAM is weirdly low, but doesn't seem to cause any problems yet (and honestly I don't see it being a problem until the next console gen).

There are already many available now, most notably the Samsung 57" ultrawide