Will my HD6970 support 4K?

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So, my home theater PC has been running a HD 6970 videocard, but I just bought a new 4K TV on Saturday and I tried plugging my HTPC running the 6970 into the new TV with HDMI but the option for the 4K wasn't available in windows settings for resolution. It still said 1080p recommended. Is this a limitation of the video card? I have the latest drivers installed.
 
Max res on any single display for the 6970 is 1600p, but people have gotten 4k monitors to work via displayport MST because the GPU sees it as two 1080P displays.

Problem is you have a TV, which probably doesn't have displayport, let alone support for 2x1080P via MST.
 
Shyne151 said:
It's a limit in the HDMI spec that the 6970 uses. Try the mini-display port(more than likely a mini-display port to display port adapter/cable is needed).

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Shit I lied... looks like even the mini-display port only does 2560x1440 ~ http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/6000/6970. Worth a try still I suppose.
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jihadjoe said:
Max res on any single display for the 6970 is 1600p, but people have gotten 4k monitors to work via displayport MST because the GPU sees it as two 1080P displays.

Problem is you have a TV, which probably doesn't have displayport, let alone support for 2x1080P via MST.
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Thank you for the information! Does anyone have a suggestion on a video-card that does 4K and can do decent at 1080p gaming comparable to my 6970?
 
You can either get the 280x or the 290/290x but you will be limited to 30Hz at 4K via HDMI, the GTX 900 series from NVIDIA will allow 60Hz at 4K because they have native HDMI 2.0 support.
 
Yep, if you want to stick with an AMD card you'll have to hold off for the new ones to launch with HDMI 2.0 support. R9 285 is HDMI 1.4a, so that would limit you to 30hz, too.
 
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