So, where are we headed, and what are the options?
I'm getting to the stage where standard resolutions (1920x1200 24") are no longer accurate to preview content that's being deployed on iPad - its effectively back to the bad old days of low-res previews in DTP.
So where to for higher DPI? Try to pick up a remaining (now discontinued) Dell UP2715k 5K, and an MVC 980ti, and then live with the seemingly enormous lists of the display's quirks, which seem to include never being able to reliably sleep your machine...
...or what? The AMD 480 cards seem to have multiple DP1.4 ports, so theoretically that should be able to do single cable 5k, but then again, the only standalone 5k display being made now, is LG's non-rotating asymmetrical-bezel Thunderbolt only one. Are they likely to make a DP version (and not make it suck)?
From what I'm hearing from a friend at Dell everyone is going 4k/8k now, in which case what are the options for a ~27-30" retina display? Are we going to need to push 8k from a cMP? Would the AMD 480 theoretically be able to do it over 2x DP1.4? (then again, at about 1/4 the price of a MVC980Ti, buying a 480 as a short term disposable card doesn't seem so bad).
My major software is heavily OpenGL-based for computational photography, so trying to figure a GPU for that, which can also drive a hi-res monitor reliably, so many gotchyas for every option...
I'm getting to the stage where standard resolutions (1920x1200 24") are no longer accurate to preview content that's being deployed on iPad - its effectively back to the bad old days of low-res previews in DTP.
So where to for higher DPI? Try to pick up a remaining (now discontinued) Dell UP2715k 5K, and an MVC 980ti, and then live with the seemingly enormous lists of the display's quirks, which seem to include never being able to reliably sleep your machine...
...or what? The AMD 480 cards seem to have multiple DP1.4 ports, so theoretically that should be able to do single cable 5k, but then again, the only standalone 5k display being made now, is LG's non-rotating asymmetrical-bezel Thunderbolt only one. Are they likely to make a DP version (and not make it suck)?
From what I'm hearing from a friend at Dell everyone is going 4k/8k now, in which case what are the options for a ~27-30" retina display? Are we going to need to push 8k from a cMP? Would the AMD 480 theoretically be able to do it over 2x DP1.4? (then again, at about 1/4 the price of a MVC980Ti, buying a 480 as a short term disposable card doesn't seem so bad).
My major software is heavily OpenGL-based for computational photography, so trying to figure a GPU for that, which can also drive a hi-res monitor reliably, so many gotchyas for every option...
