Radeon 6800 Series to support HDMI 1.4a & 3D Stereo Gaming

[Grooveriding]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4567603&postcount=691

The important bullet points:

AMD HD3D technology
o Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
o Blu-ray 3D support
o Stereoscopic 3D gaming
o 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support

o Integrated HDMI 1.4a with support for stereoscopic 3D

One of the limitations of nvidia's current 3D implementation is that it does not support 3D via 3D HDTVs due to no HDMI 1.4 or 1.4a support on any geforce cards.

People who are interested in 3D and want to use AMD hardware may care about this. I would assume per past AMD comments you will have the choice to use 3rd party glasses rather than a kit provided by AMD.

Edit: saw this linked in another thread http://www.guruht.com/2010/09/amd-radeon-hd-6800-new-features-hd3d.html

 

[ViRGE]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4567603&postcount=691

The important bullet points:

AMD HD3D technology
o Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
o Blu-ray 3D support
o Stereoscopic 3D gaming
o 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support

Unless I'm mistaken, they supposedly already support or will support all of this in the 5xxx series, no?

One of the limitations of nvidia's current 3D implementation is that it does not support 3D via 3D HDTVs due to no HDMI 1.4 or 1.4a support on any geforce cards.

GF104 and GF106 have HDMI 1.4a support (and I'd wager GF108 has it too).

 

[Grooveriding]

Unless I'm mistaken, they supposedly already support or will support all of this in the 5xxx series, no?
GF104 and GF106 have HDMI 1.4a support (and I'd wager GF108 has it too).

GTX 460 & GTS 450 supports 1.4, GTX 470 & 480 support 1.3a

 

[notty22]

GTX 460 & GTS 450 supports 1.4, GTX 470 & 480 support 1.3a

From Nvidia's web site
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gtx-460-us.html

HDMI 1.4a Support*****
Fully integrated support for HDMI 1.4a including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D4 support, xvYCC, deep color, and 7.1 digital surround sound including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. Upgrade your GPU to full 3D capability with NVIDIA 3DTV Play software, enabling 3D gaming, picture viewing and 3D web video streaming. See www.nvidia.com/3dtv for more details.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_sea...:11;NB:1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&gl=us&q=hdmi+1.4a#877

 

[Grooveriding]

From Nvidia's web site
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gtx-460-us.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_sea...:11;NB:1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&gl=us&q=hdmi+1.4a#877

Yeah that is for the 460 and 450 not the 470 & 480.

 

[T2k]

Yeah that is for the 460 and 450 not the 470 & 480.

That's pretty lame, I must say though I understand it wasn't a priority in the midst of their Fermi mess.

 

[v8envy]

So the cards too feeble to do 3d gaming support a wide range of peripherals, yet the cards powerful enough to do it are locked into a proprietary solution. Brilliant product segmentation as always, though I must say I'd be disappointed to learn something like this after the fact.

 

[Will Robinson]

That's pretty lame, I must say though I understand it wasn't a priority in the midst of their Fermi mess.

Seeing that GTX 470 and 480 don't support the 1.4 specification perhaps we can refer to them as the "Crippled Fermis" so as to distinguish them from 450 and 460 models.

/jk

 

[brybir]

So the cards too feeble to do 3d gaming support a wide range of peripherals, yet the cards powerful enough to do it are locked into a proprietary solution. Brilliant product segmentation as always, though I must say I'd be disappointed to learn something like this after the fact.

Not sure what you mean here? A 5870 is not a feeble card! And in any event, go buy a pair of 5850's and throw them in Xfire and much of your problem is solved, or wait a month and see what trickles out of AMD for the 6000 series cards.

 

[dev0lution]

HDMI 1.4 support was added in the release 260 beta driver for a bunch of older GPUs, including the 470 and 480.