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[–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

No 4k120Hz. bummer. To be fair, 4k120hz is not a primary market pull.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's for people to play on their living room TV. Most of those don't do 120 Hz.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago*

    Right, like I said, 4k120hz is a very limited market. However, for those of us with living room OLEDs, 4k120hz would be very much appreciated. The couch gaming experience on a 77 inch 4k120hz oled is pretty wicked.

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  • [+] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    They’re becoming more common though. The Sony oled I just got does 4k120. I’m bummed it doesn’t have hdmi 2.1 though. VRR would have been nice but maybe the hardware is powerful enough it won’t need it.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It has DisplayPort 1.4 which supports 4K@120hz

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Fair enough. The displayport has limited use though, given how there aren't many (any?) large 4k120hz televisions with displayport. And let me be clear, that's no dig against displayport (which is the better standard). As far as I know, certain shady license deals keep hdmi artificially ubiquitous on televisions.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    That same shadiness is why AMD GPUs can't directly support HDMI 2.1 on Linux. But there are workarounds like DP to HDMI converters or using 4:2:0 which is tolerable for non-HDR gaming at least (not so much general PC use).

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I mean if you're playing older stuff it will output 4k 240. You can probably run Crysis at 4k 240 on that thing.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Eh, that's not really how it works. It all comes down to the HDMI standard. The HDMI 2.0 used by the steam box has a max officially supported output of 4k60hz. You need HDMI 2.1 to get 4k 120hz - regardless of the capability of your machine.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Yeh this will make it a tough choice for me. Have an OLED TV and playing something like Hades 2 in 4K120 would be really nice. Maybe a USBC hub/adapter could do the trick but that’s kinda weird and an extra cost. Definitely dampened my hype for it sadly.

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