- Real-time 8K 120fps games were shown from an AMD-driven game-PC
- Horizon Forbidden West was the demo game
- Samsung TV was a customized device
Here are some exciting news that comes with a strange warning that might want to temper your excitement: a (apparently) the world’s first demo was shown by the 8K 120fps real-time game on a Samsung 8K TV over HDMI.
It’s impressive, but there are some strange questions about it, because even though all the technique involved appears to be available for consumer products, the 8K Association said the TV was custom (via Flatpanelshd).
The game itself played on a Beefy AMD Gaming -PC – don’t expect this performance on a PS5 Pro – and was reproduced at 5K and upscaled to 8K.
What did Samsung just show?
So the real ‘world’s first’ element here seems to be the demo of 8K 120fps games over HDMI. In fact, HDMI 2.1 can’t handle the full bandwidth of 8K at 120Hz, so a technology called DSC is used to compress the video – in the future HDMI 2.2 should overcome this.
In the meantime, however, it is necessary. And you might assume that this technique is what had to be adapted to the TV, as it has generally not been a feature of the best 8K -TVs in the past -but in fact, the latest Samsung TVs, such as Samsung QN900F, are evaluated to support DSC already. So it is unclear why the TV should be changed, leaving a bit of a question mark over the demo.
Samsung TV was connected to a Maingear -PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3D CPU (the same as the one in our new 8K game -PC) and an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, with the 5K image it generated became 8K using AMD’s FIDELITEFX Super Resolution 3.
So there were a few fudges needed to get to 8K 120FPS games, but it can be fine. There is already plenty of upscaling in games anyway, so we can forgive it. And it may be that the latest Samsung 8K -TVs have the right HDMI Support for Compressed 8K 120Hz Transmission and there was another reason why it was customized.
Maybe this level of game clarity will soon come to our front rooms … as long as you have cash. That’s $ 3,300 for 65-inch 8K TV, $ 800 for GPU and $ 500 for CPU-PLUS The rest of the PC. Although it is much cheaper than doing it with an NVIDIA RTX 5090, at least.
