Graphics card to power 4k TV

[quady]

Hi

I'm thinking about getting a 55" 4K tv to use as a monitor (to replace the 40" 1080 screen I have at the moment).

I to flight sim (FSX and X-Plane) and have a 4670k CPU, 16gb RAM and a solid state drive.

What would be the most suitible but cheapest GPU you'd recommend? I need it to pass audio into the TV, have HDMI 2.0 and not fall over at 4K res when flight simming (although I don't need everythign dialed up).

I was thinking an AMD 290, but is that overkill or too weedy?

[jim]

I asked the same question a short while ago, but I'm not sure we really got a consensus:

http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...ds-budget.html

I have purchased a GTX 760 and intend to do some testing with that once my 4K monitor arrives, but I don't think it will be smashing through any benchmarks.

FSX is quite old now though, isn't it? I have no idea how demanding it is in terms of graphics.

[kalniel]

FSX is a complete resource hog though - very inefficient. Mostly CPU bound and you've got a great CPU, and the SSD will be a boon as well for all the texture loading. Mostly it's shuttling data around that's so demanding in FSX I think, so going for something with as wide a bus as possible should be ideal - in which case the 290 is very well suited. However I expect FSX not to scale at all gracefully.

edit: I should add, with something like FSX driver optimisation makes a huge difference - you might find newer/new architecture cards perform worse than older ones. Try and ask on some of the FSX forums for specific card/driver recommendations - you might be better off going for a gtx 770.

[directhex]

How will you connect the PC to the TV? HDMI can only do 4K at 30Hz

[craigmorris]

I didn't think 4k gaming was realistic yet. I'm waiting a year or two so I can get a single GPU that can do 4K. I'm totally unconvinced about using more than 1 graphics card.

[Bluecube]

HDMI 2 does 60hz though. Don't think there are any graphic cards that currently support it.

[quady]

Thanks, looks like I need to wait for an HDMI 2.0 card to come out.

[Matthewb22]

@jim let me know how ur tests showed for the 4k monitor with ur 760 please thanks