Horizon Forbidden West runs at 8K 120Hz on Samsung TV via HDMI 2.1 in world-first demo

What just happened? Samsung has shown off what it claims to be the first-ever public demonstration of a game – Horizon Forbidden West – playing in 8K at 120 Hz on a native 8K television over HDMI 2.1. While that sounds impressive, there were a few caveats. Samsung showed off the demo at NAB earlier this month in partnership with Maingear and AMD, reports FlatPanelsHD. The PC used for the demonstration was an all-AMD build from Maingear. It featured the powerful Ryzen 7 9800X3D paired with a Radeon 9070 XT, 32GB of RAM, and an MSI X670E Gaming Plus Wi-Fi motherboard. Not too surprisingly, the 8K output was upscaled from 5K using AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 upscaling tech. Samsung didn't reveal anything about graphics settings in the game. Our review of the card shows that its average 4K performance of 74 fps places it between the RTX 4070 Ti Super and the RTX 5070 Ti. While there's no ray tracing option in the game, it's likely that the graphics were at the lower end to achie ... Read full article.