DON'T Game at 8K - RTX 4090 Demo

8K gaming is finally possible with the new RTX 4090, but does anyone REALLY care? How much of a difference can you even see in games on a giant 8K TV?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:17 Retesting the 3090
3:09 Upgrading to the 4090
4:54 Trying Native 8K
7:20 Is HDR On?
8:03 Something a Little Bit Newer
10:15 Why 8K is a Stupid Bandwagon
16:56 The Math
18:36 Closing Thoughts

[vigneshwaranv]

Me with a 1080p monitor and an integrated graphics: Okay, I won't.

[IstyManame]

As a 1080p user i can't even imagine how the 16 times resolution of my screen would look like

[DeSinc]

watching the 8k bluescreen struggling to slowly render-scan in at 5:50 was my favourite part

[jeremytheoneofdestiny]

Gamers in 1998: “is gaming at 720p even worth it?!?”

[jamesborb]

I love Colton.
Also Alex and Jake immediately recognizing that it wasn't native 8K was impressive

[Archpope]

5:52 watching it have to draw the blue screen was pretty impressive.

[brosch]

We are definitely beginning to see the law of diminishing returns here. Back in the day, going from 480p to 720p was amazing, 720p to 1080p was also amazing, 1080p to 1440p was great, but I believe that's where the law of diminishing returns began. Then, 1440p to 2160p was also an amazing upgrade, but you would only notice it when gaming or watching a movie on a big screen. 8k is great and all, but I think 8k is not going to be worth it for the average user. For cinemas however, I could see 8k being much more useful in that kind of setting. You guys do bring up a good point when it comes to 8k and VR, but we definitely won't have headsets capable of 8k anytime soon and when we do, you will probably need to sell a kidney to afford it lol.

[porpoise]

I do like how Alex immediately noticed it was 4k because it was too good for 8k

[GoranofallTrades]

I love how Alex and Jake immediately noticed something is fishy from the fps counter alone :D

[rayzecor]

So proud of Alex for instantly catching onto the fact that it was actually not 8k

[PacMan-sknn]

All you gotta do to make Linus happy is give him a ridiculously expensive gaming rig and an 8k tv.

[ThestDukeDroklar]

I think the game graphics will need to get closer to photorealistic before those resolutions will matter at all.

[chasewells]

Nicole was right, most games aren't developed or intended to be that high of res. It depends on the resolution of the materials applied to the walls, boxes, etc.

[andreasoberg]

I have worked in games a long time and texture texture resolution is always a challenge due to memory. Normal texture sizes are often 2048x2048 but 4096x4096 are also used even though they are a bit less common. I try to author our textures in 8k to make them future proof but often do not submit them to the game because they take so much disk space. If you walk up to a wall you could even argue that the resolution needs to be higher than the screen resolution if you are close enough. I would say that most games do not have enough texture resolution to do 4K gaming justice

[bzzler]

Important note: those THX viewing distance guidelines are not applicable to gaming at all. In video games, a display can occupy your entire field of view and you won't have any problems... as long as the ingame FOV is adjustable.

[james]

nicole hit the nail on the head. no 8k textures means you could run at any resolution you want and it would look the same. You need a game with that level of detail on the source side

[samwise]

Next time if you're wondering why a teammate on your team is staring at the walls and trees the entire time, you know they're testing out their 8K display.

[imclueless]

as a dev i assure you we DO NOT make graphical assets at 8k, nor often do we even make them at 4k. The amount of compression, file size and file handling would just be a waste of time.

You would end up with games being over 200GB's or higher and compression is already a massive issue within our games.

[PythonPlusPlus]

8K is useful on flatscreen as well. But downscaled to 4K. You’ll obtain detail much better than antialiasing can provide.

[tylerbeaumont]

The only time I’ve noticed 8K looking better than 4K is in stuff like space scenes and heavy particle effects. 8K obviously allows for smaller individual particles, which combined with OLED can look truly incredible, but it’s a really rare occurrence that you’ll get enough 1px or 2px particles at once in a game or movie for it to matter.