HDMI audio on Nvidia cards?

Erazor51

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Does anyone know if the audio output via HDMI on Nvidia cards work the same way as the AMD cards? I have a 290x that does bitstreaming audio so my receiver will display DTS Master audio, Dolby TrueHd etc when the content is sent through and for games and everything else i get 5.1 PCM audio. Is this the same for Nvidia equivalent?


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Wag

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I'm not sure what you're asking. Do the Nvidia cards bitstream DTS-HD/Tru-HD/DD+,etc for media over HDMI like Blu-Ray, .MKVs, etc? Yes. It also will pass thru multichannel audio for gaming over HDMI- it supports as many channels as you have.
 

Clump

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It's the same. I switched from AMD to nvidia and just plugged in the HDMI and it works.
 

KingFatty

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Unless you have an old NVidia 9600 GSO like me - then you'll need to use some kind of digital audio cable to couple the digital output sound from the motherthoard onto a connector on the card, then the card should pass that audio to its HDMI output.