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VESA Embedded DisplayPort 1.4a Paves Way For 8K Displays, Longer Battery Life
MojoKid writes: The VESA standards organization has published the eDP v1.4a specification (Embedded DisplayPort) that has some important new features for device manufacturers as they bump up mobile device displays into the 4K category and start looking towards even higher resolutions. eDP v1.4a will be able to support 8K displays, thanks to a segmented panel architecture known as Multi-SST Operation (MSO). A display with this architecture is broken into two or four segments, each of which supports HBR3 link rates of 8.1 Gbps. The updated eDP spec also includes VESA's Display Stream Compression (DSC) standard v1.1, which can improve battery life in mobile devices. In another effort to conserve battery power, VESA has tweaked its Panel Self Refresh (PSR) feature, which saves power by letting GPUs update portions of a display instead of the entire screen.
other articles are claiming eDP 1.4a can support 8K (actually 7680 x 4320) resolution at 60 Hz http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...
No, the refresh rate is *not* listed there, you smug moron. In case you don't have the synapses to deduce this, refresh rate is approximately a function of the display pixel count and link bandwidth.
You could drive an 8k display via carrier pigeon physical link, but your refresh rate would be almost literally at a glacial pace. As GP was noting, many systems that claim 4k support can only drive those 4k displays at gimped, tearing, 30Hz... rather than 60Hz. Thus, this prompted the inquiry regarding whether there was sufficient bandwidth to drive an 8k display at a reasonable refresh rate like 60Hz.
Which you mocked out of ignorance and simpleness.
Now go and feel remorse and shame.