{"id":54663,"date":"2013-06-02T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T10:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54663"},"modified":"2013-06-02T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T10:05:14","slug":"play-games-at-uhd-4k-resolution-the-hardware-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54663-play-games-at-uhd-4k-resolution-the-hardware-you-need","title":{"rendered":"Play games at UHD 4K resolution: the hardware you need"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electronic Arts recently stunned the world with an awesome 17-minute demo of Battlefield 4 in full HD. It looks like something next-gen consoles would be playing and the amount of stuff going on on-screen almost certainly required some high-end hardware to power it.<\/p>\n

Later on, EA revealed that the game was actually running at Ultra HD (4K, or 3840 x 2160) resolution. People then started asking what powered the demo and the answer, surprisingly, was an Intel Core i7 six-core processor and two AMD Radeon HD7990 graphics cards. Now, more and more people are asking the same question: can my PC play games at that resolution?<\/p>\n

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The main issue with answering that question is that no-one’s really testing games at the proper UHD resolution. The closest you can get is tests with three 1080p screens in portrait mode – 3240 x 1920 – but that’s still a ways away from the proper standard. Occasionally I see mention of people running triple Crossfire or two GTX Titans, but what do you need to crack playability at lower detail settings?<\/p>\n

In April this year PC Perspective purchased a UHD 4K TV and ran some tests using FRAPS and Nvidia’s open-source benchmarking tool, FCAT (Frame Capture and Analysis Tool). I’ve used some of their results in the images below.<\/p>\n\n\t\t