Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.

The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

  • FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Aside from practicality, might there be something that gets lost if you do this? (e.g. worse frame rate, quality or sth. else)

    • Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 day ago

      No, DisplayPort, DVI-D and HDMI use fundamentally the same protocol, HDMI just adds DRM which requires active adapters when one plugs in a HDMI source into a DisplayPort sink. DisplayPort to HDMI conversions are completely lossless and don’t add latency AFAIK.