4k monitor that's 3D Vision ready

Hi guys,

Is there a 4k monitor that comes ready where you can watch and play 3D movies/games?

 

LOL. There will be by the time GPU's are fast enough to drive games at 4K 120 FPS. Quad-SLI GM200 might do the trick?

 

I was hoping for a monitor that can render 4k gameplay and still enable 3D games to be played at HD quality?

 

Well to enable 3D You need a minimum of 120Hz, since the way 3D glasses work is by alternating the shutter at 60Hz to generate 2 very slightly different views of the same image, which through some biological black magic tricks your brain into perceiving apparent depth, and hence a 3D image.

Ok so that's not the most scientifically sound explanation, but bottom line being unless you're content with gaming at 30 FPS, you'll need a 120Hz monitor since 3D cuts perceived framerate in half. Given that 120Hz 4K monitors don't exist, and that even 4x Titan Black struggles to run 4K smoothly, (mostly because of lack of grunt, partly also because 4-way SLI scaling sucks, and if the 3960X wasn't overclocked it might also be bottlenecking), we are a long long way out from 3D 4K gaming.

GM200 is rumored to be 50% more powerful than Titan Black, so as octiceps said 4x GM200 might push us one step closer, but will probably still fall short unless you dial back some settings.

 

The highest resolution 3d screen I am aware of is the Asus rog swift 1440p.

 

How about passive 3D? A 4K screen would do passive 1080P 3D perfectly with a normal Display Port streaming half 4K 60Hz.


4K 120Hz active 3D panels do exist, but those are TVs, which means the input lag could be beyond reasonable.

 

Bringing that technology to consumer is at least 5 years away. And that should just be the beginnings of it since 4k has to become mainstream first. And even that is several years down the line. As has been said, we have the technology, just not the hardware.

I have heard that this next generation of cards should be able to easily push 4k gaming with just one card. Now will that be 120 Hz gaming? Since that would require an upgrade of your entire system, probably not. But we'll have to wait and see what comes down the pike.

 

I have a passive 1080p 3D tv as my gaming pc monitor and it doesnt talk with my nvidia gpu in 3d language For best results, a split (top/bottom) image would be needed and I could not find that in current drivers anymore.

I'm afraid since nvidia started pushing their own 3d tech they dropped support on other ways to show 3d. I know it used to work, I enabled it by accident when I played in settings with Crysis 2... on a regular monitor though.

 

At the moment it would seem we have Nvidia to thank for 3D. At the moment, they seem to be the only ones that still support it. And I mean from creation to display, including the hardware package.

 

Hey, KLF. I'm using a passive 3D TV as my PC monitor with nvidia card as well. And actually I can play games with it's 3D enabled. The trick is to fool nvidia card to think that your tv is a 3d vision compatible tv. It's really easy to do and you can find the solution online.

 

Yes, I actually found that out myself and also got it working. I simply forgot to tell it here