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Comment by MaxLeiter | Hacker News Reader

It keeps mentioning improved frame rates (very little about refresh rates?) - will HDMI now be able to support 144hz monitors?

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DisplayPort works very well for high-resolution and high-refresh-rate monitors (and also support things like FreeSync), why would you want HDMI?

For some reason all my kit comes with HDMI rather than DisplayPort. It also works with "televisions" (which these days seem to run Android)

Just curious - what's the use case for 144 Hz? It's a multiple of 24 but not 30. 120 Hz is a multiple of both.

It's even in the title of this thread. 10k progressive @ 120Hz. ;)

So, no, not 144Hz.

How about 4k @ 144Hz? I prefer display port anyway but am curious anyway.

More details about the spec are here: http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/hdmi_2_1/index.aspx

Looks like it maxes out at 4k@120Hz

The bandwidth for a higher refresh at 4k is obviously available. But all of the information available so far points to a maximum of 120 Hz at all resolutions. The actual spec is not available, yet, so there's that.

From http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/hdmi_2_1/index.aspx

  Q: What are the support resolutions and frame rates?

  A:

    4K50/60
    4K100/120
    5K50/60
    5K100/120
    8K50/60
    8K100/120
    10K50/60
    10K100/120

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