Requirements for HDR?

[Bob Beaky]

Hey guys. I have a GTX 780 and a BenQ XL monitor. Do I have to upgrade both to get HDR up and running?

[TheMaich]

HDR will automatically turn on at the detection of an HDR display. i'm too owner of a Benq XL monitor, but i'm not sure it supports HDR already

[Bob Beaky]

Thanks for the reply. So, I definitely don't need to upgrade my GPU just now?

[Kopseer]

Originally posted by Old One Eye:

Thanks for the reply. So, I definitely don't need to upgrade my GPU just now?

HDR is mostly on 4k televisions at the moment, consumer PC monitors with HDR are being teased at E3.

So no, no reason for you to upgrade if you don't have an HDR display :)

But if you were to get an HDR display, the GTX 780 does not support it. Not even all variants of the GTX 980 support HDR/HDMI 2.0b so your best bet would be the GTX 10xx series if you do want to get into HDR and remain with Nvidia

[TheMaich]

Originally posted by Old One Eye:

Thanks for the reply. So, I definitely don't need to upgrade my GPU just now?

The HDR feature is not software related. It all depends on your monitor, if it supports HDR or not.
If not, you have to buy a HDR capable monitor, because a GPU update will never add this feature

[Bob Beaky]

Cool beans. I'm going to start looking at TVs as they might get a bit more affordable for Christmas time.

Thanks again for replying. :)