What are going to be the specs and prices of a graphics card that can run 4K at 120hz?

[Jake458]

Specifically, Nvidias new graphic line that will come out.
Will a single graphics card be able to do that?
or will you have to SLI them? and how much per card?

 

[Robert Cook]

Dual 980ti cards in SLI or two TitanX cards, or dual 980s the best would be the dual 980ti cards. a single titan X can run 4K but that is at 60FPS for a comfortable 120FPS, you would want two Titans or a 980ti which is 1300 for the dual 980ti cards or 2000 for the TitanX cards.

 

[rcald2000]

I have no hands-on experience with 4K; all my 4K knowledge is from YouTube, and forums like this. While I do think that 980 Ti's in SLI would be the best combination for that resolution, its doubtful that two of those cards will hit 120 FPS on games like Witcher 3, Shadow of Mordor or GTAV. I would love to one day see a single graphics card that can produce 144 FPS on a 4K display.

 

[bystander]

There are no 120hz 4k monitors that I've heard of. There are some HDTV's, but those aren't real 120hz displays as far as a PC is concerned.

 

[bystander]

As far as running 4k on a single card goes. Until the dev's stop targeting 1080p for their top in settings, 4k will never perform well on a single card on the most demanding games. Dev's will have to dial back their graphics for 4K before a single card will do it well. Of course there is nothing stopping a person from dialing back their settings which is all that a dev would do (and hide the high end ones).

 

[renz496]

4k at 120hz? I thought that even HDMI 2 still limited to 60hz at 4k. Is it possible with DP1.2?

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

There are no 120hz 4k monitors that I've heard of. There are some HDTV's, but those aren't real 120hz displays as far as a PC is concerned.

This, as far as I know you can only get 30hz and 60hz 4k monitors.

 

[bystander]

4k at 120hz? I thought that even HDMI 2 still limited to 60hz at 4k. Is it possible with DP1.2?

No on both counts. However, it might be theoretically possible using MST. They'd have to make the display out of 2 stitched together displays (the first 60hz 4K monitors did this). Then use a DP for each half of the monitor.

I have not heard of anything like this, and I'm not sure we will, but the technology may exist to make this happen.

 

[renz496]

What about DP1.3? If i remeber it correctly the spec has been finalized although we probably wan't see it on next gen gpu

 

[bystander]

It doesn't look like 1.3 will support it either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#1.3

DisplayPort version 1.3 was approved on September 15, 2014.[18] This standard increases overall transmission bandwidth to 32.4 Gbit/s with the new HBR3 mode featuring 8.1 Gbit/s per lane (up from 5.4 Gbit/s with HBR2 in version 1.2), totalling 25.92 Gbit/s with overhead removed. This bandwidth allows for 5K displays (5120×2880 px) in RGB mode, and UHD 8K television displays at 7680×4320 (16:9, 33.18 megapixels) using 4:2:0 subsampling at 60 Hz. The bandwidth also allows for two UHD (3840×2160 px) computer monitors at 60 Hz in 24-bit RGB mode using Coordinated Video Timing, a 4K stereo 3D display, or a combination of 4K display and USB 3.0 as allowed by DockPort. The new standard features HDMI 2.0 compatibility mode with HDCP 2.2 content protection. It also supports VESA Display Stream Compression, which uses a visually lossless low-latency algorithm to increase resolutions and color depths and reduce power consumption.[19]

 

[Design Factor]

I would say like others two TitanX cards would get you there and back but thats for a gaming setup if your just looking for playback you can save a bunch of money and downgrade.

 

[renz496]

So 4k 120hz won't be here soon?

 

[bystander]

So 4k 120hz won't be here soon?

I can't say no, as there is the option of multiple panels being stitched together in a single display, should some company decide to do it.