Proper now, the preferred customary for PC and TV video interfaces is HDMI 2.1, however we will quickly count on a change over to HDMI 2.2 — and that change is seemingly coming prior to anticipated.
The brand new HDMI 2.2 customary is ready to be unveiled at CES 2025, the Shopper Electronics Present conference that’s happening between January 7 to 10, 2025.
In keeping with Marketwatch, HDMI 2.2 will likely 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 of HDMI LA).
What is 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 “higher bandwidth” and “a wide range of higher resolutions and refresh rates,” which will likely be “supported with a new HDMI Cable.”
For comparability: HDMI 2.1 transmits knowledge at as much as 48Gbps, permitting for refresh charges of as much as 120Hz at 4K decision. Its essential 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 appearance of HDMI 2.2 is actually going to muddy the waters in terms of shopping for HDMI-capable units and HDMI cables, so it’ll be ever extra necessary to chop by HDMI’s complicated advertising.
Too late for RTX 5000 and RX 8000
The change to HDMI 2.2 isn’t simply necessary 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 collection quickly, and AMD additionally desires to indicate 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, nonetheless, as time appears to be working out.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
