HDMI Connectivity & GPUs

[TehMac]

I dont know about any new GPUs, but my GTX 260 does not have an HDMI connect port, nor a display port--why is this?

They only have DVI, and yet more and more monitors are supporting HDMI/Display port. Whats the deal cuz?

 

[IGemini]

1st ?: Poor brand selection? Newegg's only GTX 260 has HDMI.

2nd ?: Additional scalability plus audio. Audio out from DVI is exotic and only allowed through certain HDMI adapter passthrough. DP and HDMI already have support built in. Plus it's way easier for makers to squeeze 6 mini-DP on Eyefinity cards than 6 DVI.

 

[nenforcer]

Today DisplayPort monitors are still extremely rare and few and far between.

Your GTX 260 was released over 3 years ago when dual DVI was more desireable and some of them actually came with an S-Video breakout cable for the old analog VHS users out there.

It wasn't until GTX 260 Core 216 and later models (GT 210-240) in late 2009 that HDMI out was common on nVidia graphics cards.

Still to this day only 2 brands have DisplayPort out for nVidia, Zotac (on almost all of their cards) and some high-end EVGA cards.

BTW they make DVI<-->HDMI adapters which will solve all of your problems unless you also want audio out which is a bit more complicated.