Proper now, the most well-liked customary for PC and TV video interfaces is HDMI 2.1, however we are able to quickly count on a change over to HDMI 2.2 — and that change is seemingly coming before anticipated.
The brand new HDMI 2.2 customary is about to be unveiled at CES 2025, the Client Electronics Present conference that’s happening between January 7 to 10, 2025.
In keeping with Marketwatch, HDMI 2.2 shall be formally launched on January sixth by way of a presentation held by Chandlee Harrell (president of the HDMI Discussion board), Rob Tobias (CEO and president of HDMI LA), and Brad Bramy (VP of operations and advertising and marketing of HDMI LA).
What’s going to HDMI 2.2 carry?
As of but, there aren’t many concrete particulars about HDMI 2.2, its specs, or its efficiency. The announcement merely states that the brand new specification is meant to ship “greater bandwidth” and “a variety of upper resolutions and refresh charges,” which shall be “supported with a brand new HDMI Cable.”
For comparability: HDMI 2.1 transmits information at as much as 48Gbps, permitting for refresh charges of as much as 120Hz at 4K decision. Its foremost competitors comes within the type of DisplayPort 2.1, which might attain 80Gbps. That’s the benchmark that HDMI 2.2 might want to surpass if it’s going to show heads and re-affirm its standing as king of the video inputs.
That mentioned, the arrival of HDMI 2.2 is definitely going to muddy the waters relating to shopping for HDMI-capable units and HDMI cables, so it’ll be ever extra vital to chop via HDMI’s complicated advertising and marketing.
Too late for RTX 5000 and RX 8000
The change to HDMI 2.2 isn’t simply vital for finish customers such as you and me, but in addition for producers of graphics playing cards and different {hardware}. Nvidia is planning to introduce the brand new RTX 5000 collection quickly, and AMD additionally desires to point out off with their Radeon RX 8000 collection.
Each producers are anticipated to announce (and even launch) their new GPUs at CES 2025. Whether or not HDMI 2.2 is already on board is questionable, nevertheless, as time appears to be working out.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
