Can a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU run 4K games at 144hz?

[TomHorror]

So I'm thinking of upgrading from my MSI 970 to a 1080 in the future in order to play games in 4K, and in the trailer for the 1080 it does state that the card will be able to run games at 4k 120hz. However, I would like to know if it will be capable of running games at 4k 144hz?

This may seem a bit picky, but I see no reason to go from the 144hz monitor I have now to a slower monitor once I upgrade to a 4K monitor. Therefore, I need to know if the 1080 can run 4K games at 144hz.

Here are the official specs of the 1080 taken from Nvidia's website (http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1080):

GEFORCE GTX 1080

GPU Engine Specs:

- 2560 NVIDIA CUDA® Cores
- 1607 Base Clock (MHz)
- 1733 Boost Clock (MHz)

Memory Specs:

- 10 Gbps Memory Speed
- 8 GB GDDR5X Standard Memory Config
- 256-bit Memory Interface Width
- 320 Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)

Technology Support:

PCIe 3.0Bus Support

Display Support:

Maximum Digital Resolution: 7680x4320@60Hz
Standard Display Connectors: DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
Multi Monitor: Yes
HDCP: 2.2

Graphics Card Dimensions:

4.376"Height
10.5"Length
2-SlotWidth

Thermal and Power Specs:

94 Maximum GPU Temperature (in C)
180 W Graphics Card Power (W)
500 W Recommended System Power (W)3
8-Pin Supplementary Power Connectors

 

[greens]

I believe it would have no trouble pushing a 4k display at 144hz.

That said, not a chance in hell any major title is going to run at 4k @ 120hz let alone 144. The kind of performance you're talking about is some next level shit. Maybe two 1080s in SLI but even then...

 

[Gallarian]

That totally depends on what you're definition of 'run' is, and what games your referring to.

I think a better question is "Will a 1080 run modern AAA games at high settings, 100+ fps @ 4k?", to which the answer is a resounding no.

The 1080 will only just run games at 50-60fps, let alone anything higher and not even at the highest graphical settings.

However, less demanding games (LoL, WoW, CS, CoD etc) will be fine.

 

[Warmacblu]

Maybe at medium to low settings?

 

[greens]

Maybe at medium to low settings?

Maybe.

I may be wrong here, but I think MANY gamers with 4k setups actually game at 1440p. It provides an absolutely incredible experience.

The beauty of high res is disabling antialiasing of all kinds. You don't need it due to the resolution.

4k is still a huge step up, even fr 1440p, and in my experience a lot of games don't even render correctly. I get all kinds of weird symptoms in Witcher 3 and GTA V.

1440p at a reasonable fps is pretty insane though.

 

[TJ Hooker]

I don't think any of the video outputs are even capable of 4k/144 fps (I think DP 1.4 tops out at 4k/120 fps). Although as others mentioned, the card itself isn't powerful to do that in modern AAA games, at least not without turning settings down significantly.

 

[TomHorror]

Maybe at medium to low settings?

Maybe.

I may be wrong here, but I think MANY gamers with 4k setups actually game at 1440p. It provides an absolutely incredible experience.

The beauty of high res is disabling antialiasing of all kinds. You don't need it due to the resolution.

4k is still a huge step up, even fr 1440p, and in my experience a lot of games don't even render correctly. I get all kinds of weird symptoms in Witcher 3 and GTA V.

1440p at a reasonable fps is pretty insane though.

Well I do something similar to that already, since I set the in-game resolution to 4K and use DSR to downsample the game to fit on my 1080p monitor, and it does make games look sharper. I've never seen 1440p in person before, so is there a big difference between 1080p and 1440p?

 

[sshortguy1]

for a gtx 1080 there's not a chance , I got a 4k monitor with a gtx 1080 twin frozr 4 overclocked and I can barely get 60 hz people are saying trying to run games in 4k using a gtx 1080 is pushing it

 

[sshortguy1]

Maybe at medium to low settings?

Maybe.

I may be wrong here, but I think MANY gamers with 4k setups actually game at 1440p. It provides an absolutely incredible experience.

The beauty of high res is disabling antialiasing of all kinds. You don't need it due to the resolution.

4k is still a huge step up, even fr 1440p, and in my experience a lot of games don't even render correctly. I get all kinds of weird symptoms in Witcher 3 and GTA V.

1440p at a reasonable fps is pretty insane though.

Well I do something similar to that already, since I set the in-game resolution to 4K and use DSR to downsample the game to fit on my 1080p monitor, and it does make games look sharper. I've never seen 1440p in person before, so is there a big difference between 1080p and 1440p?

yes there's a difference between 1080 p and 1440 p even 4k the pictures are clearer and sharper but pushing a card to get 144 fps on 4k would be impossible , u can't get 144 fps on 1440p

 

[TomHorror]

Thanks for the answers, guys. I was under the impression that the GTX 1080 might have been able to run AAA games at 4K since the trailer for the 1080 states that it will be able to do 4K at 120hz, but from what you have told me that is not the case. Oh well, at least I can save a few hundred pounds by keeping my MSI 970 instead

 

[sshortguy1]

tom the gtx 1080 is just a overclocked gtx 980 ti , I thought the same as you did bought a 4k monitor prior to the release of the 1080s and fall short to performance I was getting 40-50s in gta 5 and tomb raider in the 40s , no where close to what you are wanting

 

[ddferrari]

Thanks for the answers, guys. I was under the impression that the GTX 1080 might have been able to run AAA games at 4K since the trailer for the 1080 states that it will be able to do 4K at 120hz, but from what you have told me that is not the case. Oh well, at least I can save a few hundred pounds by keeping my MSI 970 instead

How about a link to this trailer that you claim Nvidia made that states the 1080 will be able to do 4K at 120hz? I've never heard anything of the sort and Nvidia isn't usually that boastful.

 

[TomHorror]

Thanks for the answers, guys. I was under the impression that the GTX 1080 might have been able to run AAA games at 4K since the trailer for the 1080 states that it will be able to do 4K at 120hz, but from what you have told me that is not the case. Oh well, at least I can save a few hundred pounds by keeping my MSI 970 instead

How about a link to this trailer that you claim Nvidia made that states the 1080 will be able to do 4K at 120hz? I've never heard anything of the sort and Nvidia isn't usually that boastful.

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUL6Gc2g4kg

If you go to 0:34, you will see that the 1080 has a DP1.4 port that is capable of outputting 4K at 120hz, hence I assumed the 1080 would be capable of running 4K games at at least 120hz since they put such a port in the card to begin with. However, people have told me otherwise, so perhaps I was just naive?

 

[sshortguy1]

just ran into this but found it hard to believe
Lately, there have been two rushes in display technologies – higher resolutions and higher refresh rates. Going for one at a time is attainable, but trying for both at the same time provides a serious challenge in terms of bandwidth.

The display connectivity protocols that exist are simply not powerful enough to support both of these advancements at once. We might be getting excited over being able to drive 4K at 60 Hz with the upcoming HDMI 2.0 devices, but I think we can do better than that, and the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) apparently agrees. VESA has just announced the DisplayPort 1.3 standard, which should theoretically be able to drive 4K displays at 120 Hz.

 

[sshortguy1]

i'm running the gtx 1080 using a dp not going too good on a 4k monitor

 

[sshortguy1]

Thanks for the answers, guys. I was under the impression that the GTX 1080 might have been able to run AAA games at 4K since the trailer for the 1080 states that it will be able to do 4K at 120hz, but from what you have told me that is not the case. Oh well, at least I can save a few hundred pounds by keeping my MSI 970 instead

How about a link to this trailer that you claim Nvidia made that states the 1080 will be able to do 4K at 120hz? I've never heard anything of the sort and Nvidia isn't usually that boastful.

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUL6Gc2g4kg

If you go to 0:34, you will see that the 1080 has a DP1.4 port that is capable of outputting 4K at 120hz, hence I assumed the 1080 would be capable of running 4K games at at least 120hz since they put such a port in the card to begin with. However, people have told me otherwise, so perhaps I was just naive?

I know guys at microcenter that knows their S***t and if their was a cable to use to get better frame rates I would of heard about it a long time ago , they all told me to run in 4 k with a constant 60 bandwith is to sli them

 

[TJ Hooker]

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUL6Gc2g4kg

If you go to 0:34, you will see that the 1080 has a DP1.4 port that is capable of outputting 4K at 120hz, hence I assumed the 1080 would be capable of running 4K games at at least 120hz since they put such a port in the card to begin with. However, people have told me otherwise, so perhaps I was just naive?

If you based that expectation purely on what connectors the 1080 had, then I don't think you have anyone but yourself to blame for unrealistic expectations. I mean, a GTX 950 has DP 1.2, which supports 4k/60Hz, but no one expected the card to be capable of that. I can't see why Nvidia wouldn't use the latest video connector revisions on their latest cards, especially the flagship, but that has very little to do with the performance of the card.

 

[TomHorror]

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUL6Gc2g4kg

If you go to 0:34, you will see that the 1080 has a DP1.4 port that is capable of outputting 4K at 120hz, hence I assumed the 1080 would be capable of running 4K games at at least 120hz since they put such a port in the card to begin with. However, people have told me otherwise, so perhaps I was just naive?

If you based that expectation purely on what connectors the 1080 had, then I don't think you have anyone but yourself to blame for unrealistic expectations. I mean, a GTX 950 has DP 1.2, which supports 4k/60Hz, but no one expected the card to be capable of that. I can't see why Nvidia wouldn't use the latest video connector revisions on their latest cards, especially the flagship, but that has very little to do with the performance of the card.

You have a fair point, and I didn't realise the 950 had DP 1.2. I have an MSI 970 but I've never used the DP feature since I game in 1080p with DL-DVI, so I don't know a whole lot about DP. I guess for now, 4K gaming has a long way to go from what you guys have told me, so thanks for your feedback

 

[ddferrari]

Thanks for the answers, guys. I was under the impression that the GTX 1080 might have been able to run AAA games at 4K since the trailer for the 1080 states that it will be able to do 4K at 120hz, but from what you have told me that is not the case. Oh well, at least I can save a few hundred pounds by keeping my MSI 970 instead

How about a link to this trailer that you claim Nvidia made that states the 1080 will be able to do 4K at 120hz? I've never heard anything of the sort and Nvidia isn't usually that boastful.

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUL6Gc2g4kg

If you go to 0:34, you will see that the 1080 has a DP1.4 port that is capable of outputting 4K at 120hz, hence I assumed the 1080 would be capable of running 4K games at at least 120hz since they put such a port in the card to begin with. However, people have told me otherwise, so perhaps I was just naive?

Thanks- I watched it and I it certainly is misleading- as they were rattling off features, they did have a graphic that read: NEW DP1.4 HDR 4K@120HZ , so I see how that could be misconstrued. But we are definitely NOT there, yet.