Radeon Technologies Group Real-Time High Dynamic Range Demo (video)

This looks quite exciting! I wonder how much of this was brought on by possibly working with Apple and the demand for high quality displays which is now being passed on to PCs.
 
I think this video shows off the differences even more as the monitors are closer side by side and the effect seems more pronounced. Is that because the sdr display compared worse or because the hdr display is better? Who knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvD37UUcdIo#t=3m43s


Looks phenomenal.

OLED is coming this year, but for standalone displays they are still too opulent and expensive. I think I'll pick up either a 40" 4k HDR display, or a 32" 1440p HDR display with freesync and 120Hz.

My worry is that the 32" options will be more rare since manufacturers seem to think 27" is the biggest anyone wants to go. 40" models will be extremely expensive as well until the korean off brand makers take over, but how long will that take?
 
You think they could have come up with a new name....We all have heard of HDR before right?
 
primetime said:
You think they could have come up with a new name....We all have heard of HDR before right?
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Seems to be the same HDR; just that now you will have an actual monitor that can display it. AMD wants it to be GPU accelerated and standardized across the industry. No more proprietary monitor mumbo jumbo.

What AMD wants to do, is something even further. It wants to extend the HDR capabilities of existing technologies by driving the tone map through their hardware. This involves not only developing a hardware standard for monitors but also incorporating the technology into Radeon graphic cards.
 
its the same concept applied to the monitor rather than the render.

Why should they need a new moniker?

Id be in for a 30" IPS HDR freesync monitor myself...

Its actually already there on GCN cards, they just use tonemapping to scale it down to SDR.

Driver upidate will fix that.
 
Technically you can't watch a video of a non HDR display on a SDR screen and have it look accurate. So anything shown in the videos is what could already be done in the monitor you are using right now. For that space scene demo, it looks like the black level isn't calibrated correctly at all for the SDR display.
 
so if the monitor you are using now is not HDR, how can you tell the difference between HDR and SDR?

They should look essentially the same on your SDR monitor.

They are probably using some tricks to make it more pronounced.
 
tybert7 said:
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OLED is coming this year, but for standalone displays they are still too opulent and expensive. I think I'll pick up either a 40" 4k HDR display, or a 32" 1440p HDR display with freesync and 120Hz.

My worry is that the 32" options will be more rare since manufacturers seem to think 27" is the biggest anyone wants to go. 40" models will be extremely expensive as well until the korean off brand makers take over, but how long will that take?
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OLED PC monitors worry me. They like to say that burn in comparable to Plasma but my 6 or 7 year old Kuro has no burn in from TiVo menus or the random gaming I’ve done. Not the same kind of duty as my PC desktop for sure but like 7 years now. Then there is my 4 month old Nexus 6 with an OLED screen that already had slight burn in and compared to the TV or PC monitor, that thing was never on. It seems like a bigger concern than they want to admit. Even with all the anti-burn-in aids Dell has on that $5000 display it seems like Dell is worried and I am too. What will it look like a year or two?
 
With OLED, the issue is more about lifespan of the organic material than burn in.
 
leeleatherwood said:
so if the monitor you are using now is not HDR, how can you tell the difference between HDR and SDR?

They should look essentially the same on your SDR monitor.
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This would be the case IF you were watching a raw stream, instead of what you are watching, which is a video taken from both monitors side by side.
 
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