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You weren't asking me, but my two cents is that they probably won't. I think gamers are happy enough with 4K that gaming displays are more likely skip to 8K once it's so industry standard that it becomes a negligible cost difference for manufacturers. I'm not sure gamers are gonna want to pay a big premium for 5K over 4K, so why would manufactures develop them. I've used 5K iMacs a bunch and it's kind of a tough sell for me and I'm a big pixel peeper. There will be a few 5k gaming displays for sure but it won't be as big a thing as 1440p was/is. Plus now that upscaling tech is so good it will be easy enough to sell someone an 8K display even if they don't have a GPU that can power it natively, they can just use DLSS or FSR or whatever. Whereas that wasn't really the case when we were looking ahead from 1080p.

Hi Tom and Tim! Greetings from Ponte di Rialto (pun intended again)! I don’t have a too elaborate question this time, but do you think true 5K consumer displays will ever arrive? A lot of people in the PC Gaming Hardware space love to refer to this resolution as dual 1440p as it 5120 pixels horizontally, which we see in modern ultrawide 49” panels. But true 5K is actually four times QHD like 4K is four times Full HD, which is a resolution that Apple together with LG have been pioneering since 2016 to achieve 218ppi. So to repeat: Will true high-refresh 5K ever come to gaming displays as a stop-gap solution to 8K? Or will it be stuck to Apple’s products forever? Thanks for reading and keep up the awesome tech journalism!!

agent2

What are your thoughts on specialized accelerators and the role they may take in future GPU and CPU designs? Ray tracing was a recent addition to the GPU, but what about AI, media accelerators, or others? How could competitors like Intel, AMD, and Nvidia map a coherent approach to not waste precious silicon on something only one of them adopts?

Frobozz

Hey guys, just wondering if you could discuss where these games are that will really start stressing GPUs. I feel like my 1080ti is perfectly capable of gaming at a high frame rate at 1440p, or 60fps at 4k if I turn some settings down at all modern games. When will we see games that will crush my 1080ti, and make it run at 30fps at 1440p? Anyways, thanks, love the shows, stay greasy.

Deep dish learning pizza

Tim, really love your laptop & monitor content. I'm on the fence about 4k monitors. Watched your review of the gigabyte m28u. I'm on the fence about whether to buy an m32u because the price is great or wait for a similar sized OLED. I think the 42 inch c2 is just a bit too big even vesa mounted. I'm using a 32" aoc agon currently and I don't have any complaints with it, just really like the clarity of 4k.

B. Fish

For the three main companies in this space (Intel, AMD and Nvidia) how have your impressions of them changed in recent years? What would you say are their greatest achievements and failures in recent years? What would you say their biggest strengths and weaknesses currently are?

Chris Rijk

Hi Tim & Tom greetings from Switzerland. When would you guess a monitor with the following specs would come to market? "4K" ultra wide 21:9 (that is 5040x2160) QD-OLED panel with proper HDR 144hz refresh rate g-sync or free-sync premium

Neal Martin

What up, Tim and Tom? Tim, as someone who is familiar with calibration on displays and such, I'm sure you've encountered die hard picture quality enthusiasts, such as myself. For instance, once I got into the high-end TV arena and began to learn about calibration techniques, I realized that I was in agreement with most of the experts who claimed that anything that alters the native resolution degrades the overall experience. This is why whenever I set up a new panel, I always turn off all processing, such as upscaling, motion reduction, etc. The idea being that you can't simply get data from nothing, so any kind of upscaling is basically just "filler" data. My question is what is your opinion on these ideas in relation to DLSS and FSR? The general way I see it is, get the hardware to handle the resolution you are targeting. Thanks to you, Tom, and Steve, and of course, Dan, for all the hard work you do. Tim, you were my go-to when making my decision to purchase the LG 27GL850-B 2 years ago and it has been a fantastic panel so far!

Temet Nosce

Does FSR-like or AI-based upscaling technology win in the future (10 years) e.g. for 8k or 16k resolutions? What is AMD doing to catch up in the AI space?

Amiablechief

How much longer do you feel it will be before ‘HEDT’/‘MSWS’ disappears as a market segment?

Amiablechief

It looks like FSR2 open-source code won’t be available for a bit still (source: https://gpuopen.com) but is there any evidence to suggest the open-source nature of FSR 1 had any benefit? Have you gents heard of anything like game devs tweaking FSR code for better results?

rafa zaya

Which of these is more likely - Fishhawk Falls skips retail similar to TR5000 pro or TR5000 pro is forced into retail sooner?

Amiablechief

Hi Guys, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone frame it quite like this yet, but in light of FSR2.0, do you feel like DLSS looks almost Rube Goldberg-esque? Achieving DLSS-like quality without AI, while running out of the box on the competition seems like the more elegant engineering solution and makes Nvidia look a little silly in my view. And that is to say nothing of power draw! Plus AMD seems to have iterated more rapidly with FSR 2.0. Finally, do you see AMD blow it out of the water with a hardware accelerated “FSR 2.5” in RDNA 4?

Amiablechief