Proper now, the most well-liked commonplace 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 outwardly coming earlier than anticipated.
The brand new HDMI 2.2 commonplace is about to be unveiled at CES 2025, the Client Electronics Present conference that’s going down between January 7 to 10, 2025.
In accordance with Marketwatch, HDMI 2.2 will likely be formally launched on January sixth through 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 of HDMI LA).
What’s going to HDMI 2.2 convey?
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 “increased bandwidth” and “a variety of upper resolutions and refresh charges,” which will likely 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 fundamental competitors comes within the type of DisplayPort 2.1, which may 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 actually going to muddy the waters in the case of shopping for HDMI-capable gadgets and HDMI cables, so it’ll be ever extra essential to chop by means of HDMI’s complicated advertising.
Too late for RTX 5000 and RX 8000
The change to HDMI 2.2 isn’t simply essential for finish customers such as you and me, but additionally for producers of graphics playing cards and different {hardware}. Nvidia is planning to introduce the brand new RTX 5000 sequence quickly, and AMD additionally needs to point out off with their Radeon RX 8000 sequence.
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, nonetheless, as time appears to be operating out.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
