video card for a samsung UHD 4ktv

[piasabird]

What kind of a video card do you need to connect a computer to a 4k HDMI 2.0 input?

 

[n0x1ous]

Depends what you want to do with it? Any video card with hdmi can connect to it and display an image. If you are just going to watch videos even a video card with hdmi 1.4 would suffice at 4k. If you want 60hz and want to do some gaming then the requirements will go up. Need a little more information about what you want to use the PC for

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, if you want to use it to watch Netflix 4K UHD streaming videos, the minimum NVidia card that you need, is a GTX 1050 3GB. Which I have in my FS/FT, it just happens. PM me if interested.

Other than that, any Polaris or Maxwell V2 or Pascal, or Vega, or Turing, card will do HDMI 2.0 output.

An NVidia GT 630 / 730 (Kepler) card, will also do 4K@60 over HDMI 1.4 at reduced color depth, due to a nice little HDMI "hack" feature, that overdrives the HDMI port slightly on those cards. (I've tested it with my 40" 4K UHD screens.)

As far as APUs / CPU iGPUs go, for AMD, Raven Ridge (Ryzen 2200G / 2400G for AM4 socket) will do HDMI 2.0 output. On Intel, things aren't so rosy, and current Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake HDMI outputs are still stuck at HDMI 1.4, and will NOT (thus far) allow you to overdrive the HDMI 1.4 port or reduce the color depth to do 4K@60 output. They will only do 4K@30, over HDMI. If the board has a DisplayPort, you can do 4K@60 over that, and need an active adaptor (like a Club3D) to convert the signal to HDMI 2.0. (I've done that too.)

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, for real gaming @4K60 or higher, get a Vega 64, or a GTX 1080ti. (Turing is a bit overpriced right now, and FPS tanks really hard when "RTX ON" is enabled.)

PS. NVidia's RTX feature, is really just an implementation of DXR, DirectX RayTracing, which can be run on a Vega 64 as well, apparently, and fairly well at that.

 

[LTC8K6]

IIRC, Vega does not run DXR. The claims turned out not to be true.

 

[VirtualLarry]

IIRC, Vega does not run DXR. The claims turned out not to be true.

Really? I fell for (tech) "fake news"?

 

[piasabird]

I decided to purchase a Gforce 1050 Ti 4 GB DDR5 video card and it seems to be working fine. For streaming this will probably be fine. It has an HDMI 2.0 port to run off of. I noticed the Samsung UHD 8000 series 4KTV gave me a notice that it was changing the settings to enhance the video when viewing HULU.COM . The picture looks great so I cant complain. Thanks for the suggestions and comments. Even my XBOX 360 connected well. I just used a HDMI 1.4 HDMI cable. I am guessing a 1.4 HDMI cable is high speed enough to connect and it seems to work. I read some reviews for games and some games were using all the video RAM and then went to system RAM. So I just spent a little more for the 4GB DDR5 version. That probably does not effect streaming much but sometimes I open several programs when using the Internet. I am using the short version of the card with one 90 mm Cooling fan and does not require extra power cables. I am not noticing any fan noise in my Living room. My computer uses a Gigabyte H110 series motherboard and an intel i3 6100 CPU. The computer case is a 12" Cube Thermaltake Core V1 with a front 200 mm intake fan and no exhaust fans.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Pissabird,

You just gave me the necessary incentive to update my Intel HD4600 on board video to the GeForce GT 1050 TI 4GB low profile model. Last year, the posters said that it would not make that much difference for me to upgrade my video to the GeForce GT 1030 for surfing the internet and watching streaming video like YouTube on my SFF PC. At that time this card was(1050 TI) 2X the cost too! LOL!

 

[LTC8K6]

There are also 3gb 1050 cards that may be a little cheaper.

Or not.