Posted on Wednesday, June 12 2019 @ 9:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Not a whole lot of time today so I'll keep the news overview short. AMD revealed details about the display engine and multimedia engine of its new Navi architecture, TechPowerUp has all the details
over here. The Radeon RX 5700 series supports DisplayPort 1.4 HDR and supports more codecs.
The Navi Radeon Display Engine features an updated DisplayPort 1.4 HDR implementation that's capable of handling 8K displays at 60 Hz with a single cable. It can also handle 4K UHD at 240 Hz with a single cable. These also include HDR and 10-bit color. It achieves this by implementing DSC 1.2a (Display Stream Compression). The display controller also supports 30 bpp internal color-depth. The HDMI implementation remains HDMI 2.0. The multi-plane overlay protocol (MPO) implementation now supports a low-power mode. This should, in theory, reduce the GPU's power draw when idling or playing back video.
