Windows 10: HDMI inferior to DVI?

5k series have horrible hdmi out support out of the box, really a lottery. I was trying to spare him that. Don't know about 1440p, maybe it's doable with recent drivers, I only know that a 5750 worked at 1920x1200 over hdmi, but had various issues with hz, overscan, red pixels noise etc. that took many catalyst installs to work it out.

So it's free to try out, but I suspect it's not close, that's why you hesitate? Best bet: not worth the trip.

 

Ok, forget about the 5670, any clues to a graphics card with HDMI 1.4?

 

You are right about the MHL, Bobkn, then if you go on to "support"-- "manual", the pdf comes up and near the back it says HDMI 1.4, all on the Asus site. When I googled the monitor, there was a test on You Tube of how good it was and one of the comments drew attention to fact that the display was 1920X1080, the on screen display gave it away.

 

I did a little more looking. It turns out that nVidia cards based on their "Kepler" chipsets (most 7xx cards) support HDMI 1.4a.

That includes low-end cards like those based on the GT 720 chipset. Computer Parts, Laptops, Electronics, and More - Newegg.com has some for less than $50US. If you want a better card than the 5670, a GTX 750 is around $100.

The newer "Maxwell" cards (9xx series) are more expensive. The cheapest one will be the 950, but Newegg doesn't list any yet. The GTX 960 is about a $200 card.

I wouldn't be surprised if AMD matches them, but I'm not familiar with their up-to-date products.

 

I have a NVidia GTX 650, and it supports my native resolution of my 27" IPS (2560x1440) on HDMI. (it has 2 DVI and 1 HDMI, and I get full native res on all 3).

It is a crap shoot on whether an HDMI port can support more than HD (1920x1080), unless it says so explicitly.

You should be good with any card that claims 4k Support I would think.

 

EVGA - Products - Graphics - GeForce 900 Series Family - GTX 950

 

DVI has been adapted to support higher resolution and PC applications.

That's totally untrue. You can do 4K res over HDMI just fine, but the hardware has to support it. Yes, there are technical limitations on the speed, but it's not anything so low.

Huh? I have a 27", I can definitely tell the difference, and I need the screen real-estate as I am a software developer and larger windows means I can see more code at once.

 

MSI actually say that their gt730 has an hdmi 1.4a at more than 1440p.

 

I have 3 monitor screens running QHD. Two are running it from my Desktop on 27 inch IPS monitors. I love those. The screens are big enough to show the text at a size I can read and I have a ton of visual real estate to use. That is all with a similar cheap card using Display Port output. My new laptop has a 15.6 monitor QHD touch screen. It is useless. Text is way too small and scaling is horrible, so I run it in HD output. It works fine there.

So for a desktop with a large enough monitor the higher resolution is very useful. However I have not bought a QHD TV yet as there is simply not enough content for it yet.

Perry

 

MSI is definitely the maker of choice when it comes to info on HDMI. Even the low end GT720 has HDMI 1.4a, 4K @24hz. No good for gaming, but fine for lesser requirements. I expect other graphics card manufacturers also give full info, but I havn't found one yet.