Are there any issues with driver support for 8k that will affect purchase choice?
I recently bought an 8k TV (which is not brutally expensive when refurbished) and want to connect my workstation to it. I went through the list of video cards from my local store and the cheapest that claims 8k support is the Gigabyte RX 6400.
Is a Gigabyte RX 6400 Eagle 4G a good video card for mostly text output at 8k resolution? I might do things like play Netflix in 1/4 of the screen and have text in the other 3/4. Definitely nothing at all challenging in terms of video. AMD drivers have a history of being reliable, but will I face some issues like lack of HDMI support for 8k?
I’ve watched a YouTube video about trying this on Windows and they got frame rates as low as 4 FPS for games which is not a concern for me. It definitely works OK with Windows driving the card. Will I be likely to have issues running the same hardware on Linux?
It’s a bad combo in my opinion. The HDMI forum hates Linux so we mostly use display port. If you need HDMI 2.1 or higher for 8k I don’t know if it will work. It might end up with a really low frame rate. It is a crazy low end graphics card for 8k. That’s a low end 1080p card as far as games go. DRM is a problem with crappy companies like Netflix, so you will probably be watching upscaled standard def pictures. They must want us to pirate.
The TV has built in NetFlix and YouTube so I don’t have much need for playing video from Linux. Currently YouTube is the only source of 8K video that I’m aware of.
I know it’s low end, I just don’t want to spend much money. It seems likely that one way or another I’ll find some problem with whatever card I get and want to replace it in a couple of years so I don’t want to spend much.
The card is documented as having HDMI 2.1.