The first monitors with a modern DisplayPort 2.0 connector will appear no earlier than the second half of 2021

Source: Pure PC added 15th Jan 2021

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During this year’s CES, there were announcements of the first gaming monitors (including ASUS, Acer and LG) that will be equipped with HDMI 2.1 connectors. The HDMI 2.1 specification enables image transmission in 4K resolution with a maximum 120 FPS or 8K while maintaining the refresh rate at the level of 60 Hz. In 2019, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) also announced the official specification of the DisplayPort 2.0 connector with the highest bandwidth, reaching 80 Gbps. For comparison, HDMI 2.1 offers a maximum of 48 Gbps. According to the original assumptions, the first monitors supporting the DisplayPort 2.0 standard were to debut last year. We already know that this will not happen, and we will have to wait for the first devices with DP 2.0 until the second half 2021 of the year.

The first monitors with a DisplayPort 2.0 connector should be introduced in the second half 2021. The main reason for the delay is the pandemic, although at present this is not a major problem anyway. There is no graphics card with DP 2.0.

In the case of the DisplayPort 2.0 standard, we can count on support for 4K resolution with a maximum refresh rate 240 Hz, 5K (5120 x 2880) with 180 Hz, 8K at 85 Hz or even 16 K (15360 x 8460) while keeping 60 Hz. Such impressive values ​​mean that in the coming years, exceptionally extensive monitors will be offered, combining high resolution and refresh rate. The current generation of graphics cards will certainly not cope with such advanced settings, but the next generation of graphics cards (NVIDIA Lovelace, AMD RDNA 3) will certainly perform much better in higher resolutions.

Initially, the first displays with DisplayPort 2.0 were supposed to appear last year, but eventually we will have to wait at least until autumn 2021 year. The main reason was the pandemic that thwarted manufacturers’ plans to implement DisplayPort 2.0. It is enough to see how big delays in store premieres have monitors with HDMI 2.1 connector, which has been available for a long time in TV sets, and the standard itself was announced in 2017 of the year.

Source: VideoCardz