AMD Radeon GPUs To Level Up Display Output With 80Gbps HDMI 2.2

Before we get into this news, let's talk about HDMI 2.2, since we didn't actually cover its launch. HDMI 2.2 was indeed unveiled at CES, just as was rumored in December, and it brings along two major new features: the HDMI Latency Indication Protocol, and support for up to 96 Gbps of display stream bandwidth, outpacing even the fastest DisplayPort standard.

If the latest rumor is correct, though, we won't be seeing the full 96-Gbps bandwidth on some of the first cards to sport the connector. AMD's next-generation Radeon cards powered by the first UDNA GPUs will apparently also be coming with HDMI 2.2 support, according to regular leaker Kepler (@Kepler_L2 on Xwitter), who posted vaguely as he usually does:

What's interesting here is that the new cards apparently won't support the fastest 96-Gigabit HDMI 2.2 standard. That's hardly ...