AMD RDNA 3 GPUs sport next-gen ports for true 4K gaming at 240Hz
AMD has confirmed that its next generation graphics cards will support DisplayPort 2.0(opens in new tab) straight out of the box, for all your HDR, high-res, high refresh rate gaming needs. There was already the suggestion that new graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia would support the new standard, especially as Intel has already confirmed its delayed desktop GPUs will do, but this is the first official confirmation we've had from the red team itself.
That came during AMD's VP of graphics engineering, David Wang's talk during its financial analyst day, where he went into some very light detail about the company's graphics tech going forward.
He gave us the first hints of what we can expect from the new technologies being baked into the upcoming RDNA 3 GPUs(opens in new tab) though didn't really do much more than hit a few marketing bullet points on his way down the list. Yes, we're getting chiplets «to continue to scale performance aggressively without the yield and the cost concerns of large monolithic silicon,» but that's about it.
He also touched on some potential changes to the way the revised compute units, or workgroup units, function and an alteration to the graphics pipeline that might allow it to do hybrid real-time ray tracing without the performance hit you currently get on RDNA 2 silicon.
Though again, it was vague and given precious little detail.
What was concrete, however, was the confirmation of DisplayPort 2.0 support for RDNA 3 graphics cards: «We'll also augment our display capabilities with the new DisplayPort 2 standard,» says Wang, «to support upcoming HDR displays with high resolutions and refresh rates.»
Why is that important? Well, arguably it's not. Yet. DP 2.0 gaming monitors are still
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