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I'm really just hoping it's a driver limitation that has been overlooked, or perhaps something a bios update could resolve (though considering the age of the 6000 gpus. So anyone out there with a HD 6xxx card that wants to run 4k using a single stream monitor such as the Samsung U28D590, be forewarned, it won't work, the monitor must be a MST based display currently.
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i'm just looking to see if there is a clear defined reason as to why the display port on these cards appear to run the full 4k using MST just fine, but using the same bandwidth and capabilities (in fact less requirements) to do a single 4k stream, they appear to fail. Who'd think that getting a 4k display and trying to make it work with a range of adapters would be a problem specially considering that all these video cards are advertised as dp 1.2.Īnyways, i'm not looking for a miracle. Some of them have been borderline rude in their responses. Worse yet is the occasions of having to repeat ones self, which makes me think that several of my tickets have been handled by several different agents. In fact, it's wasting so much time both mine and theirs, with no results, that it's facepalmable considering the wide range of answers from all these companies that either have NOTHING to do with the issue OR just make up stuff on the fly that has a 50/50 chance of potentially pertaining to it. The only thing i'm really complaining about here is the total lack of actually attempting to resolve a problem, finding the cause and giving a straight answer. There is no evidence that it's defective, so why offer a replacement wasting peoples time rather than maybe looking into the matter. This one scratches my head, considering I've already mentioned trying other 6xxx cards with no luck, same results. So if you build a video card with 1.2, it better support the flagship standard.ģ: "The card must be defective, we can arrange for a warranty replacement". again technical support agents that say something like this (paraphrasing) "4K Monitors didn't exist when those video cards were made, so there is no way they could have made them work with displays, it's 2 generations old!" which one, doesn't answer or present any kind of solution, and two, is irrelevant as the standards are set in place regardless of what was "available", three, the HD6950/6970 arrived very late 2010, the displayport 1.2 spec/standard was in 2009, of which like I mentioned, touted 4k 60hz as it's primary awesomeness of the displayport 1.2 capabilities.
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but HD6xxx which should also work out of the box seems to hit a brick wall, in fact it's argueably worse than that, i'd say it's confusing entirely.ġ: A lot of the technical support people don't even seem to know what 4k is, getting rather confused responces asking about how 1080p (1920x1080) works? Best yet is the claim that 2560x1600 is the highest resolution monitor you can get as 3840x2160 doesn't exist yet, so i'm guessing that one didn't have a clue at all.Ģ: Outright evading the problem and blaming it on the lack of any idea that 4k would be a thing. Anything HD7xxx and up seems to work out of the box no problems. Now the details seem to be far and few between, I've emailed AMD and a few other 3rd party manufacturers, I've tried a bunch of a different cards out of curiousity. not 1.2a as the "a" revision adds some extra features not necessary. I mean Display port 1.2 is fully compliant with the requirements, all the displays require is 1.2. or the wealth of other monitors now popping up like winter is over and spring was skipped straight to summer. So what can go wrong with a single stream 4K display like the Samsung U28D590 monitor I recently picked up. What's interesting about this is that using MST requires just a touch more bandwidth due to having to negotiate a little more due to the having 2 individual high resolution streams, so really a single stream should amount to less workload/difficulty and less bandwidth even if it's minuscule. with MST, it treats the display as 2 separate 1920x2160 resolution displays, and the internal mst hub in the monitor works it all out. powered it up, set the display resolution modes correctly (detecting MST properly) and boom. Suffice it to say, on a 6970, hooked up the lone display port cable directly to the monitor. I was around a few months back to see what the new Asus PQ321Q. as I've personally bore witness to the setup.
Not to mention the support for MST (Multi-Stream Transport) So on AMD's website regarding display port and their adoption of making 1.2 standard across all their gpu's along with requiring manufacturers (3rd party) to provide display port 1.2 in either full sized or mini dp, they list a maximum resolution as 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 (4K), makes sense as when 1.2 arrived it was touted as the only industry standard and VESA compliant method of providing 4k resolutions 60hz.