News - ASUS 31.5-inch 4K monitor now available for pre-order in US

[HEXUS]

ASUS’s PQ321Q True 4K UHD monitor will set you back $3,499, ships in a fortnight.

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[Platinum]

So modern Nvidia / AMD GPU's cant do 60Hz at that res?

[Devastater6194]

So modern Nvidia / AMD GPU's cant do 60Hz at that res?

Ha no. Anandtrech recently did a quick feature about 4K and it took 4 Titans to get Sleeping Dogs and Metro 2033 on Full at 60fps.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7120/some-quick-gaming-numbers-at-4k-max-settings

[shaithis]

Sheesh....$3.5k, very specialist uses at the moment.

I do see a huge boon to these monitors for people like myself who need large resolution monitors for productivity, yet hate scaled images when gaming....the 1:4 pixel mapping should look fine allowing gaming at 1080p.....although even if it was £500 I would still wait as buying any monitor for gaming on has been put on hold while I wait to see how the occulous rift pans out...

[TheAnimus]

So modern Nvidia / AMD GPU's cant do 60Hz at that res?

I doubt its for gaming, but it wouldn't look too bad at 1k, with simple scaling.

This is why Apple have gone for fornication nuts insane resolutions. They don't a proper graphics API, so opted for going for simple pixel doubling, which means 4 times total pixel count. By keeping things inline with that it means they can simply stretch an image that is raster and non-dpi aware, meaning it doesn't look fuzzy.

This is actually a great way of bridging the divide until developers get their arse in gear and write the stuff properly. It's funny because when you look at all the reviews of the nice laptops which run high res screens, the reviewers normally complain about windows apps looking fugly, which is funny because MS have supported this scaling stuff since the 90s, and strongly encouraged it for 8 years. Just a bit of a chicken and egg no hardware supports it, so why dev for it type thing.

[Devastater6194]

On a side note, can't wait to see people using these in triple screen setups. Just short of 25 million pixels up from the 6 million pixels of 1080 surround. Nvidia and AMD are really going to have to pull their fingers out instead of rebranding last gen cards.

[whitejackal]

Ha no. Anandtrech recently did a quick feature about 4K and it took 4 Titans to get Sleeping Dogs and Metro 2033 on Full at 60fps.
(Anandtech link ommitted)

I believe that this will be the 4th time that I reply to your comment.(The first three did not go through because I am not allowed to post urls yet!)

Anyways. Running those games at 4xSuper Sampling Anti Aliasing reduced framerates by around 70% without giving them much of an improvement in image quality. Multiply the fps that they got by 3.33333 and you get framerates that you would see in the real world. For a gtx titan that would be approximately 69 fps for Metro 2033 and approximately 193fps for Dirt 3. My math says that modern gpus can run games at a resolution of 4k at higher than 60 fps. That is of course if people do not use the wasteful SSAA that should not be used at a 4k resolution.

[Pleiades]

About time...

Bit expensive tbh considering the cheap qhd tvs coming out of China (Seiki and Skyworth etc).

The Skyworth 39E780U 39" model is only $600 in its native land (tho it only does 30hz @ 3840x2160)...

[shaithis]

I believe that this will be the 4th time that I reply to your comment.(The first three did not go through because I am not allowed to post urls yet!)

Anyways. Running those games at 4xSuper Sampling Anti Aliasing reduced framerates by around 70% without giving them much of an improvement in image quality. Multiply the fps that they got by 3.33333 and you get framerates that you would see in the real world. For a gtx titan that would be approximately 69 fps for Metro 2033 and approximately 193fps for Dirt 3. My math says that modern gpus can run games at a resolution of 4k at higher than 60 fps. That is of course if people do not use the wasteful SSAA that should not be used at a 4k resolution.

At 2560x1600 with absolutely no AA, I can get my framerate as low as the low 40s (in places) in BF3 on an EVGA GTX780 SOC.

Now, consider 4k has twice the pixels and there is at best a 50% difference between bf3 and Metro 2033, I don't think your numbers add up correctly.

[The Hand]

Might get one for $500.. in 5 years time maybe!

[shamus21]

I would hold off buying any big screen monitors for now, could see some price drops over time.