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okay so we're heading into the demo room for AMD's Polaris ten and eleven powered rx 484 70 and 460 graphics cards but the subject of today's video is actually not the graphics cards but rather the next-generation display experiences that they're going to enable so inside there are going to be some things I've seen before 5k monitors free sync and high dynamic range or HDR but there are also gonna be some things I have never seen before single cable 5k free sync over HDMI and finally HDR on the PC let's go have a look so demo number one this is a 5k 60 Hertz display in fact it's one I've seen before that gorgeous one from Dell running off of a single DisplayPort cable coming out of the PC so how did they achieve that well that's a great question DisplayPort 1.3 has 87% more bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.2 which was the previous standard that required two cables coming out of the computer so you can see because there aren't actually any 5k display for one point three monitors yet they're using this fantastic cardboard box to take the single DP 1.3 and have it come out as 2 DP 1.2 s but the point is that the card the polaris card supports it and this is with no physical connector chain although to be clear DisplayPort 1.3 can run off of a USB type-c connector now there's more that is going to be great about this than just 5k displays it's not applicable to everyone you're gonna be able to run to 4k 60 Hertz displays off of a single cable using MST you're gonna be able to achieve higher refresh rates so we're talking 240 Hertz 1080p monitors or even 1440p monitors in SDR we're gonna be talking 4k 120 Hertz displays which is gonna help a lot by the way with adaptive refresh rate 4k monitors giving them a much broader window current ones are limited to about 40 to 60 Hertz for free sync whereas nuumber ones are gonna be able to go anywhere from 30 all the way up to 120 Hertz giving a much smoother gaming experience BAM but that's not the only thing that's new with free sync behind me here I was in theory going to have an AMD GPU running hdmi 2.0 for the first time that I'd ever seen one do it and running free sync over HDMI but unfortunately they apparently don't have any of those monitors here but I'll tell you guys about it any because this is pretty freakin big stuff the HDMI spec actually does not include any variable refresh rate provisions so AMD ran out and built their own extension to HDMI to that allows variable refresh rate over HDMI and the cool thing about this is it is not a walled garden and AMD would allow the HDMI form to go ahead and adopt their standard if they want or create their own that just kind of runs completely independently pretty freakin cool now there are competing solutions to free sync variable refresh rate gaming that you've probably heard of the Itchy sync sorry I've got a little bit sick as you guys have probably noticed and we had seen it running over HDMI in the past but only kind of in a you know dark corner of a demo room somewhere this is official now there is more limited resolution and framerate support compared to DisplayPort 1.3 but that's just a function of the lower bandwidth of HDMI 2.0 still a heck of a lot better than a kick in the nuts if you know what I mean and here's the other kicker there are 28 displays why none of them could be here I don't know but there are 28 displays out there supporting HDMI free sync already our third demo by contrast haha this will be funny in a minute does not have a ton of monitor support yet behind me we have HDR content running on a TV and on a monitor off of a Polaris GPU now this is not your Grandpa's HD are running on half-life Lost Coast where it's all in engine this is more of an HDR ecosystem that involves hardware on the card hardware on the TV and a software layer so what is HDR then in a nutshell HDR delivers more colors which as panel technology catches up in the future will allow us to take advantage of the entire rec 2020 color space but and perhaps more importantly it delivers more contrast so what that means is that HDR panels are much brighter that doesn't mean that it's just gonna like blast light into your face though it means that the brightest parts of the scene whether it's a star or whether it's a candle on a bedside table are going to have more detail present in them without affecting the detail that's also present in the shadows so gone hopefully will be the days of things like Ben Q's black equalizer which just you know cranks the gamma on the monitor so you can see details in the shadows this is a much more natural way to view content whether it's games or whether it's movies and the really cool thing here is in the demos behind me you see an HDR certified TV running HDR content you see some monitor that has the HDR content running on it and it is mapped to take best advantage of it and then over there to the right you've got just a non HDR monitor that's using reinhardt tone mapping to an SDR display for HDR content deliver the best possible experience that that one can that's what it's all about the best experience that can be delivered depending on the hardware that's present AMD is doing a giveaway they're given away one Polaris ten graphics card and one Polaris 11 graphics card and to keep it really simple I'm not gonna stand here and talk for ten minutes about how you enter to win all you gotta do is check out the link in the video description for a chance to have a brand new shiny AMD graphics card so go do it now have all these display inputs we talked about outputs so that was the next-generation display demos from the demo room here at AMD's Polaris tech day I hope you guys enjoyed it but if you didn't well hey you know what to do be a hater like this guy yeah that's right you walk away but if you did like it hit that like button get subscribed me to even consider supporting us my cool shirt like this at the link in the video description you can join our forum at the link in 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