Question Which is better for gaming? A HDMI connection or a Display Port connection?

[jiv808]

Sooo...

Which is better for gaming? A HDMI connection or a Display Port connection? (To the monitor)

Or it doesn't matter? I'm not a gamer - just curious!

 

[CountMike]

Sooo...

Which is better for gaming? A HDMI connection or a Display Port connection? (To the monitor)

Or it doesn't matter? I'm not a gamer - just curious!

It matters only at very high resolutions at high frequencies on equally equipped monitors when it's out of specs for HDMI. Indirectly it may influence gaming as higher resolutions and frequencies may lower game performance if rest of HW is not up to scratch,

 

[gamerk316]

The correct answer is "It doesn't matter so long as the method used meets your desired resolution/refresh rate".

HDMI and Displayport both do fundamentally the same thing: Transmit Video and Audio between two devices. Typically, Displayport has tended to support higher bandwidth then HDMI; for example: HDMI 2.0 can't handle 4k120 with HDR enabled, where Displayport 1.4 can. But as both are digital, to the end user, they offer the same image output so long as the resolution/refresh you choose fits within their transmission limits.