Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP?

All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ...

I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.

ThatPlayer an hour ago | parent | next [-]

HDMI 2.1 carries more bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.4. Plenty of GPU/monitors have that port arrangement, as recent as Nvidia's RTX 40 Series.

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preisschild an hour ago | parent [-]

Yeah but this is for amdgpu and they had DP2.1 support for a while now.

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ThatPlayer an hour ago | parent [-]

That doesn't help when the monitors don't have DP2.1 support.

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preisschild 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

I havent seen a monitor (besides tvs) that has HDMI2.1 but not DP2.1

	▲	ThatPlayer 35 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I can tell you mine does: a Corsair XENEON 27QHD240. Or the somewhat popular and badly named Acer Nitro XV275K P5biipruzx I'd say it's usual for displays released 2-5 years old. HDMI 2.1 got somewhat quick monitor support for consoles, but search for "first DP2.1 monitor" gets results from 2024
	▲	MBCook 32 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And that parenthetical is exactly why people care. TVs.

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drdexebtjl an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you’re using a TV. They rarely have DP ports.

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ulfbert_inc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HDMI is a king on consumer TVs. Linux (in form of SteamOS) is becoming a major console gaming platform thanks to Valve.

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whalesalad an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I have been using HDMI to game on TV for most or all of my adult life. Mostly console gaming. A few years back I built a dedicated gaming rig, but I still use it with a controller from my couch connected to a TV.

So this is a win for couch gamers and open source in general.