Parade Technologies, a Taiwanese company, has revealed the development of two processors for converting a Displayport 2.0 signal into an HDMI 2.1 signal.

Even while Displayport 2.0 is not yet being implemented in devices, this does not imply that the advancements are coming to a halt any time soon. This will be particularly beneficial when connecting a future video card to television that supports HDMI 2.1. As a result, you will be able to play games at 4K at 120 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz, depending on your monitor.

All of these are the maximum capabilities of HDMI 2.1, while DisplayPort 2.0 can support a maximum of one 16K monitor (15360 x 8640) at 60 Hz and no less than two 8K displays at 120 Hz, depending on the configuration. Every scenario involves 10-bit color with chroma 4:4:4 subsampling.

The HDMI output can accommodate up to four FRL lanes with a maximum transfer rate of 12 Gbit/s per lane, which is responsible for the signal transfer. It is also backwards compatible with HDMI 2.0 and supports technologies such as variable frame rate, rapid media switching, and automatic low latency mode. It does not appear that the displayport signal can be separated, which would allow you to use, for example, two HDMI 2.1 ports with the vast bandwidth of displayport 2.0 to get the same results.

New converter chip can convert DisplayPort 2.0 to HDMI 2.1