AMD announced some pretty tasty graphics cards yesterday in the form of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX (opens in new tab) The 7900 XT is $999 and $899 respectively. These cards have many new features such as DisplayPort 2.1, a new connectivity standard that supports higher resolutions and higher refresh rates. We also got a sneak peek at Samsung’s first 8K ultrawide monitor, the Odyssey Neo G9.
The only issue with this particular screen is that it’s not really an 8K panel due to its ultrawide configuration. For reference, 8K officially has to be 7680×4320, which equates to a frankly staggering 33.2M pixels. For comparison, 4K is 3840×2160 for a total of 8.3 million pixels. However, a footnote in the presentation points out that Samsung’s screen only offers his 8K horizontal orientation.
Given the 32:9 aspect ratio of the existing Odyssey Neo G9, the native resolution is 7680×2160 for a total of 16.6M pixels, or about half the full resolution of a true 8K display.
It’s probably an impressive display to sit in front of and will give most graphics cards plenty of punishment. It’s worth pointing out that it’s just a precursor to the plethora of 8K displays out there. These screens also support the new DisplayPort 2.1 standard. All the high-refresh goodness that comes with it.
I’m watching up to 900Hz at 1440p, 480Hz at 4K and 165Hz at 8K. good. Clearly, AMD wants high-refresh gamers to get one of the new RDNA 3’s to access those ridiculously high refresh rates, especially since his Nvidia is sticking with DisplayPort 1.4 on its Ada Lovelace GPUs. I hope you will.
Yes, somewhat surprising given the sheer power offered by Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 4090. (opens in new tab) Graphics cards are limited to half of these refresh rates as they cling to older standards.
AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT graphics cards will be available on December 13th.