[Discuss] 4K (or 5K) resolution for Linux desktop

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

I thought that most of the NVidia GTX 9xx series can drive them -
either through DisplayPort (970 and 980) or HDMI 2.0 (950 and 960).
The GTX 950 and 960 also implement HDCP 2.2. I think that recent ATI
cards can also manage 4K, as can some of the new Intel Skylake chips.

You would need a massive setup to do 3D at 4K but the extra screen
real estate can still be useful. I'd also mention 4K movies but that's
problematic on Linux; unless you make your own you won't find much
that is not encumbered with DRM so you won't be able to watch any of
it yet. Even if you have a video card with HDCP 2.2 support, software
players for UHD protected content may never come for Linux, or at
least not until somebody cracks the encryption.


On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/2016 11:53 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
>> What's happening in the graphics-display industry? Suddenly Linux on the
>> desktop is losing the price competition, for probably the first time ever
>> since I started using it in 1992.
>
> What happened is that the HDTV manufacturers colluded to artificially
> inflate prices. Then LG broke ranks and priced displays at reasonable
> prices which lead to massive price drops across the entire range.
>
> So the manufacturers started looking for new products they could
> overprice. Enter 4K screens. And then LG broke ranks again and started
> offering 4K screens at reasonable (for 4K panels) prices.
>
> My advice at this time is to stay away from 4K and higher resolution
> displays. Few graphics cards can drive them at their native resolutions
> and only the most powerful SLI and Crossfire rigs can run 3D
> applications (games, CAD, etc) at useful frame rates without downscaling.
>
> --
> Rich P.
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