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Would it be a bad time to mention that I use a Radeon HD 7950 in my livingroom HTPC to drive my TV at 4k@60hz?  You wouldn't play most games at 4k on that but some of you forget that computers can have uses beyond AAA gaming.  So enabling 8k on the 480 can be useful for applications other than gaming.

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6 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Would it be a bad time to mention that I use a Radeon HD 7950 in my livingroom HTPC to drive my TV at 4k@60hz?  You wouldn't play most games at 4k on that but some of you forget that computers can have uses beyond AAA gaming.  So enabling 8k on the 480 can be useful for applications other than gaming.

Exactly. I have an R9 290. I don't game at 4K obviously..

But if I at some point connect it to a 4K display (for whatever reason) I certainly expect it to output a full resolution image and just work. I would be pissed if it didn't.

GPUs are always expected to have high max supported resolutions. Because you want compatibility...

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that's actually pretty neat, for people who need a terminal for a stockbroker, or even as a display for a movie, editor and colourist, where they just need it as a display adaptor instead of needing it for it's compute power.

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1 hour ago, Ekst4zy said:

And you would pair 8k screen with rx480. Seems legit to me. 

Well considering the 480 isn't that much slower than the Titan X in Davinci Resolve, I can see why people would want it for Red 8K video work.

Can get three 480's for less than the Titan X and get +2.3x the performance making it a great deal.

 

I'm glad they've officially added support, and it's nice and early before Vega or the new 500 series drops.

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10 minutes ago, Humbug said:

Exactly. I have an R9 290. I don't game at 4K obviously..

But if I at some point connect it to a 4K display (for whatever reason) I certainly expect it to output a full resolution image and just work. I would be pissed if it didn't.

GPUs are always expected to have high max supported resolutions. Because you want compatibility...

As a tip if you ever do so, the HDMI 1.4a port for your 290 is capped to 30hz for 4K, but you can get cheap DP1.2 to HDMI2.0 adaptors to allow 60hz. :)  It's what I'm using to reach 60hz.

Also, with that all said, there are some older or less graphically intense games that even my 7950 readily does 4K rendering for.  I expect that list to expand that once my R9 390X is 'hand me downed' from my workstation to my HTPC.  When people say 'Insert Thingy Here Can't Do 4K' they mean 'Fairly recent, typically AAA games, at 4k'.

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I believe this makes the RX 480 the only card below $500 USD that can run 8k@60hz?

 

Or does the 1070 have the right connectors for it? (For non-gaming applications, it's really a question of the ports built into the boards.)

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2 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

I believe this makes the RX 480 the only card below $500 USD that can run 8k@60hz?

Maybe even only under $5000

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1 hour ago, raphidy said:

I mean, pascal also supports that resolution, doesn't it?

Jensun personally made sure 8k was a feature, specifically to help Linus out.  I'm kidding of course.  8k is a far off dream for most people.  I suppose it's just a feature that is relatively easy to implement and makes for one more bullet point on the list of features.  I guess it's good at trade shows where it could be a thing.

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1 hour ago, Ekst4zy said:

Who will ever play games at 8k res on RX480 xD I mean... It's cool and all, but just... funny. 

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1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Last time I checked you don't measure fps when running office though. 

last i checked when rating cables and such 8k 30hz Doesnt mean it plays games at 30fps. it means it suppose a 30hz Signal(30FPS) 

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1 hour ago, Ekst4zy said:

Who will ever play games at 8k res on RX480 xD I mean... It's cool and all, but just... funny. 

It's most definitely just for 8K video playback at the moment.

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Cool. Though still far off for such monitors in mainstream, but glorious pixel density!

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On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2017 at 10:47 PM, Ekst4zy said:

lol, seems about right xD

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On 4/5/2017 at 10:45 AM, Ekst4zy said:

Who will ever play games at 8k res on RX480 xD I mean... It's cool and all, but just... funny. 

Obviously they don't expect you to game at that resolution they expect you to watch 8K video.

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On 2017-04-05 at 8:57 AM, Ekst4zy said:

Sure, still. You would buy a 8k screen and a RX480 for it? Seems kinda off to me. I understand that work related stuff is kinda big... But 8k? Oh give ma a break. 

I'd love to have an 8k screen, but not for gaming, so I'd want to spend as little as possible on the graphics card to run it. I'd buy a $40 video card if it could give me 8k.

 

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On 4/5/2017 at 0:25 PM, Taf the Ghost said:

I believe this makes the RX 480 the only card below $500 USD that can run 8k@60hz?

 

Or does the 1070 have the right connectors for it? (For non-gaming applications, it's really a question of the ports built into the boards.)

Any pascal card can do this too. I guess any polaris or pascal can do it, even 1050 and 460.

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4 minutes ago, raphidy said:

Any pascal card can do this too. I guess any polaris or pascal can do it, even 1050 and 460.

Consumer Pascal does not support 8K only the Pascal based Quadros do.

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10 minutes ago, raphidy said:

Well the spec sheet does say that it supports it.

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1060/

 
 
 

It supports it at a hardware level but it isn't actually usable.

 

P.S. Of course Nvidia could simply enable it with a driver update like AMD did but will they?

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On 4/5/2017 at 9:45 AM, Ekst4zy said:

Who will ever play games at 8k res on RX480 xD I mean... It's cool and all, but just... funny. 

I bet you can play stuff like Half Life 2 in 8K :D

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