Gaming at 8K Resolution?!?!? - HOLY $H!T Ep. 12
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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2,799 words · ~13 min read
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To game at 8K resolution,
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one GTX Titan, two GTX Titans,
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an entire ARM load of GTX Titans,
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on this, the 12th installment of, holy !
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We're gonna find out if I drop all these Titans.
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Ooh, no, I won't.
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Okay, so first things first,
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the answer is not any of these things,
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because these are all old Titan Xs.
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They're, like, gross and ancient and, like,
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I mean, look at this.
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This is an original Titan.
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No, the answer is going to be
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NVIDIA's latest flagship Titan XPs,
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based on the Pascal architecture.
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Now, I've heard of people jury-rigging them
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to run more than two at a time,
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but for the time being, we only have two,
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and that's all that's officially supported,
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and that's all we have SLI bridges for anyhow.
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So the answer is gonna be two of the latest Titan XPs,
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along with one of their fancy new high-bandwidth bridges,
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which looks a little something like that.
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That's how you install it, right?
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Like that, it's a Nicky V SLI bridge installation chip.
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Boom.
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Whoa, I almost dropped that, sorry.
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Let's put that right there.
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Did you get that catch?
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Oh, that's a shame, that was awesome.
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I'm over it now, okay?
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That's fine.
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Okay, so the next thing we're gonna need, of course,
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is an 8K display of some sort.
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And the astute among you are probably already aware
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that unless I could get a company
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to send me some kind of amazing pre-production prototype
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or something, well, those don't really exist yet.
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So instead, I'm going to be tackling this
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in a way that I think will give us the performance results
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that we're looking for,
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without having to source a product
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that straight up isn't available.
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So this, my friends, is the monitor desk mount.
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Here we go, let's get all the pieces out here.
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Made by Vivo, this is a two by two quad monitor mount
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that can accept up to four 27-inch monitors.
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And we will be using four of our 27-inch 4K LG displays
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that are left over from eight gamers, one CPU.
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So it's actually this one, only I will need a bunch of them.
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Okay, well, I've never done one of these before,
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so consult the manual.
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Oh my God, this is not gonna be easy to assemble.
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I get it now.
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Okay, okay.
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So it is fairly obvious from looking at this
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that I am going to need to make some more room.
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Kinda like that.
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Actually, that's,
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that does seem like it's gonna work pretty well.
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Okay.
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Ah, now it's not going anywhere.
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Okay, let's get some more monitors.
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Wow, this is actually a pretty fast to mount
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by the look of this.
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I thought basically building the multi-monitor stand
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was gonna be like half the video.
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I could have more time to actually use it then.
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I thought, why did I take them out again?
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Oh, I didn't.
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Oh, what am I doing?
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Okay.
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Ah!
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Why does anyone let me near expensive hardware?
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Not sure.
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Oops.
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Okay.
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Not bad at all.
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Okay, where's my test bench?
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GTX 1080.
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Please.
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We are getting that garbage off of here.
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Okay.
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This is more like it.
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When it goes in,
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who bent this?
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Oops.
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That's fine.
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It's just a very expensive graphics card.
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No big deal.
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Okay.
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Are they beauties?
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beasts. Maybe that was the moral of the story all along. You can be both beauty and beast
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if you're a $1,200 graphics card. Okay. So our quad monitor, quad 4K monitor, effectively 8K
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worth of pixels setup is now complete. So the next step is to hook up our test bench.
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Here we go. To the monitors and see if she fires up the first time, which would be a freaking
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Christmas miracle because nothing ever works the first time, especially when you're working
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with some kind of bizarro land experimental setup. Our test bench machine we hope is suitably
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badass. It's got a Core i7-5960X 8-core Extreme Edition, 128 gigs of Dominator Platinum Corsair
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memory, an ASUS X99 Deluxe 2 motherboard, a 1600-watt power adapter, and a 16-watt power
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supply because, you know, YOLO, whatever, right? And even then, I'm still pretty skeptical
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as to whether it is going to successfully run games at 8K resolution. Man, waiting for
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a computer to post is like torture and I'm not sure if it's going to work. That's a good
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sign. Let's just sign in any time now. Hey, hey, there we go. Okay. Keeps kind of bailing
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on me here. Okay. There we go. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
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For crying out loud. Hey, hey, there we go. No. Are we good this time? No. No, we're not.
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How long until it isn't funny anymore? It's still funny. That's good. It's good that it's
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still funny. Oh, is that it? We good now? Thank you. Geez. Wow. This is something else.
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We could have a problem here.
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It didn't even occur to me for a second that I can't tile the displays in a 2x2. Oh, here
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we go. Here we go. Here we go. 2x2. Phew. Okay. Oh, I was having like a panic attack
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there. Okay. Okay. It's confused. It's a little confused. It's still figuring out its confusion.
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It hurt itself in its confusion. Oh, this is terrible. Why is this so hard? Why is it
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my only, yeah, disable. Yeah, I want to disable it. Piece of junk. So I think I made a small
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configuration error. You'll have to forgive me. It's been a very long time since I've
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set up an NVIDIA surround setup, but it looks like the way it works these days is you don't
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want to plug all of the displays into the top graphics card and run SLI. It looks like
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you actually split up which graphics card the displays are plugged into. So hopefully
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that is going to fix this for me.
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And I will not continue to have trouble here. And that means that I can run all of them
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on DisplayPort. In theory, these are HDMI 2.0 compliant, both of them. But in practice,
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I was not able to run at 4K 60 Hertz on one of my displays. So I'm not sure exactly what
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any of this means yet, but stay tuned. It is not even letting me click on the NVIDIA
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control and it crashed. Nope. Nevermind. It's back and it crashed and it's back. Okay. Span
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around. Oh, come on. Okay. Configure. That looks right. Wait, what? No. That looks right.
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7680 by 4320. 60 Hertz. Come on. Oh, I got it wrong. Oh shoot. Might be easier to just
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swap the cables on these ones at this point. Come on, baby. Okay. I think we're good. Okay.
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So the NVIDIA control panel crashed just trying to create this monster.
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But there it is. 7680 by 4320. And if we pop into our adapter properties, boom, 60 Hertz.
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This is 8K. Yes, this is 8K, my friends. Let's just put the old NVIDIA control panel yellow here
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is got to put her down there. Take her behind the barn. There you go. You're done. So this is a
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game, a game, but can it, my friends, can it run crisis running at 1080p? That's 1080. That's full
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HD. That's a joke. So this is a common question that people will ask is do games even support 4K?
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Well, games are actually coded to support whatever resolutions the system supports. So yes,
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games support 4K without any additional,
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modifications required in some cases. In the cases of poorly coded games, no, they might not
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support future resolutions. But in theory, crisis is going to fire up in a moment here at 8K. Oh,
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oh, oh, yes, yes. There it is. And for some reason, afterburner is showing through,
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but hopefully that will go away when we minimize it. There it is. There it is, my friends. 8K crisis
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running at 60 FPS in the menu only, mind you, but here we go. I could get used to this. Let's see
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what kind of performance we can get out of two Titan XPs, crisis three, very high, and we crushed
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it. Yes, my friends, 24 FPS, fully cinematic in crisis three. I may need to turn on bezel compensation
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if I'm going to play for any kind of experience. I'm going to play for any kind of experience.
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I'm going to play for an extended period of time. Okay. I'm also going to adjust some in-game
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settings here. What do you think? Is that going to be playable? Hey, hey. Whoa. Okay. Medium system
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spec. We're looking at about 50 FPS. I am liking that. I am not. Oh, oh, hold on. Run the benchmark.
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Okay. We're running the benchmark. Benchmarking crisis three at 8K medium settings. It's great.
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I love this built-in crosshair into my display here.
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You just aim at the thing you can't see, right? Oh, that's funny. The crosshair's a little to the
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left. Okay. Well, that'll be trippy as all hell. Wow. This is a gigantic display and wow, it looks
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perfect. Oh yeah. That bezel. Oh yeah. Oh, delicious. Having that right in the middle
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like that. Yeah. Just getting my way. Perfect. I mean, I'm not saying this is an ideal gaming
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experience. I'm just, I'm saying we're gaming at 8K. That's all. So if we had like a multi-cable
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8K display today, this is how crisis would run on a couple of Titan XPs. Benchmarks done. Okay.
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Let's find out. 54 FPS average, medium settings, no anti-aliasing. I would make the argument
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anti-aliasing completely unnecessary. Okay. So Grand Theft Auto, uh, sort of a lesser degree
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of success here. It looks like, yeah, GTA 5 was super unhappy about our 8K.
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Resolution. Yep. Okay. Maybe we'll try some other games. I can read, I can read this one too.
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Yeah. The town folks were something, uh, Monday the 16th rode about 50 miles to brother. Wow.
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Yeah. Brother Bam County. Something, something circuit. Weed. Something is at night. I had some
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spending. Wherever shall call upon the name of the something.
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saved. Probably the Lord. Yeah. You really got to move your head. All right. Let's run the
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benchmark. I got to say this does look like, look at the hair. Unbelievable. This truly is the future
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of gaming. 8K gaming friends. 8K gaming. So do we not have an 8K monitor? Uh, no one has an 8K
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monitor. What about that television we have? Uh, that's not 8K. That's 4K. We have nothing that's
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8K. No one has anything that's 8K. That's not true. Yes, it is. I saw a bunch of them at,
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uh, NAV. Well, yes, but that's not. You said no one. Those aren't commercial products. You said
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no one has it. You're killing me here. You said no one. Okay. I take things very literally. Yes,
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you do. 20.09 frames per second at medium settings in the Tomb Raider benchmark. That's not great.
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Well, no, but we'll counter-strike global offensive run. Is, is Ed still here? We should
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get him to play. Oh my God. The, the console looks ridiculous. Yeah, that is really hard.
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Valve's high DPI scaling is terrible. Like, it's so inconsistent. I mean,
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the crosshair is the, is the butthole in the middle there.
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I got one. Uh, the frame rate counter is not that accurate.
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Actually, you know what? It seems to be, uh, it seems to be settling in a little bit though.
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Yeah. And it's saying 60 or 70, but it doesn't feel like it.
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It was dipping more before. And this is interesting. So the bottom two are running
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off one GPU and the top two are running off another GPU. And there are slight differences
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in like the, uh, the response time. So you'll actually see some, like a slight jello effect
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sometimes. And that probably could be perceived. Are you trying to snipe with that? Wow. I can't
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believe that just worked. So we ran crisis three at medium, Tomb Raider at medium and
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counter-strike global offensive on high. We're getting about, yeah, it says like
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five frames per second now that it's settled in a little bit, but it really doesn't feel that smooth.
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So, uh, there you have it. Are we ready for eight K gaming? Well, based on that,
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we don't have the displays that can do it without a gigantic bezel in the middle. And based on that,
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we don't have graphics cards that don't cost less than 2,400 us dollars running an SLI in order to
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even have a chance of playing games. I would say the answer is no, but is this a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,
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