I recently had the opportunity to test out a new gaming TV that had some impressive specs, including 8K resolution and a high refresh rate. I decided to put it through its paces with a few different games to see how it would perform.
The first game I tried was CS:GO, which is known for its fast-paced action and competitive gameplay. However, when I booted up the game on this TV, something unexpected happened - the system crashed. Yes, you heard that right, the entire system just shut down without warning. It was like the TV had taken a big hit and just couldn't handle it.
The next game I tried was Dota 2, which is another popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game. When I started playing, I was blown away by how smooth and responsive the gameplay felt. The high refresh rate of the TV allowed for seamless movement and quick reactions. But what really surprised me was that the game ran at an incredible 200 frames per second on my 1080p display! That's almost 24 frames per second at 8K resolution, which is truly astonishing.
Now, I know what you're thinking - "That sounds like a miracle!" And believe me, it kind of is. The TV was able to handle the demands of Dota 2 with ease, even at high resolutions and frame rates. But when I loaded up Half-Life 2 on the same display, something unexpected happened. Despite running at 4K resolution, the game didn't suffer from any significant performance issues. In fact, it ran smoothly at around 300 frames per second! When I switched to 8K resolution, the scaling was a bit wonky, but once I loaded into the game, I was blown away by its crisp and clear visuals.
The textures in Half-Life 2 looked almost... modern? It's hard to explain, but despite being an old game that was released over 20 years ago, it still looks surprisingly good on this TV. The resolution really brings out the intricate details of the game's world and characters. I found myself getting lost in the game for hours, exploring every nook and cranny.
Overall, my experience with this gaming TV has been nothing short of amazing. It's clear that these TVs are capable of handling even the most demanding games at high resolutions and frame rates. And who knows? Maybe we'll see some old classics like Half-Life 2 brought back to life with dynamic super resolution in the future.
If you're a fan of gaming, I highly recommend checking out this TV for yourself. It's not just about the specs - it's about the experience. And if you want to see more videos like this one, be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell.
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday i pit the runt of amd's litter the rx 6400 against 8k gaming for some reason and step number one was to go and get some 8kso we went out and bought the cheapest 8k display we could find but before anna hello helps me unbox this behemoth it's time for a quick word from today's video sponsor that helped pay for this very sensible test today's video sponsor is back due to popular demand and it's none other than lenode lenode is a linux based cloud computing and web hosting service that offers multiple products to manage cloud storage websites databases game servers kubernetes and they can even handle whatever computational load you can imagine also if you value good customer support which you should lenode is one of the best in the business i mean look at how happy these two are with their service if all of this sounds good to you sign up to lenode using the link in my description below to get a 60 day hundred dollar free credit thank you lenode for sponsoring today's videooh i'm not sure but i think that this shouldn't be exposed to babieswow that is a big ass tv now this huge tv is the lg 65 nano 95 which has a 65 inch ips display and yeah there's a whole bunch of lg marketing crap around its hdrness and whatever but i think by far the most interesting thing about this tv is that at a thousand five hundred canadian dollars it is the cheapest way to get your hands on a native 8k panel and i am really excited to see what that little rx 6400 is going to make of this tv now to put into perspective just how trouser soiling the prospect of 8k gaming is even for a high-end graphics card if this square represents the pixels in a 1080p image a resolution that let's face it already kind of pushes the limits of what the rx 6400 can do this is what 8k looks like in fact you can fit 16 1080p images in one 8k image which for the tiny little die of the rx 6400 and its 4 gigs of video memory may be a bit of a challenge although interestingly one of the things that makes the rx 6400 potentially usable for 8k gaming is that it has an hdmi 2.1 port which means it should be able to output an 8k signal so let's drop the little rx 6400 in a gaming pc so that we can put a chihuahua against cthulhu and see what happens ah yes i think the rgb vomitron is the perfect host for our 6400 8k test this rgb gpu support bracket is really putting in some work with the 6400 let's see what output resolution we have here 4k that's that's as high as it's letting us go luckily getting the tv to output an 8k signal only took a couple of minutes first i reinstalled the graphics card drivers and then i had to switch the hdmi output from 4k to 8k in the tv settings yes there we go that is a nice number to see it's funny that it recommends we not use the native resolution of the display but let's see what happens when we do is that an 8k now it was and i was very impressed oh yes there is some resolution right there and would you look at that the fabled tiny little 8k msi afterburner makes its long-awaited return to the channel like you can go right up to things and it it still looks very very sharp but again we're not here to marvel at 8k we're here to punish a little baby graphics card with it so let's try and run some games now we're going to start off with gta 5 running at 1080p with everything on the lowest settings available and we are getting a very good result look at that over frames 180fps second wow it is actually running too well because it's at that point with gta 5 where you start getting stutters because the engine can't handle the very high frame rate so we definitely need to move up to 4kthat is much better than i was expecting we are getting solidly over 60 frames per second at 4k with the little 6400 granted this is with all low settings but i am still very impressed by that it is really playable okay so if it runs 4k this well then 8k is not going to be a problem at all is it wow that has dropped from 70 frames per second at 4k down to 4 frames per second at 8 games this is exactly the kind of gpu carnage i was looking for the 4k result had me worried but 8k really has delivered here but let's see if we can find a game the 6400 will run in 8kokay now we are gonna have to do a bot match because otherwise we won't have an overlay so with 1080p low settings cs go is giving us a reasonably high frame rate although it's not that much higher than uh gta 5 so i don't actually have very high hopes for the 8k result oh it doesn't like 4k very much there's quite a bit of tearing and there's the occasional visual artifact let's actually see oh we have eight times anti-aliasing running that is not what you want to be doing running at 4k so let's disable all of this stuff ah ah yes cs go has in fact crashed oh no we're back it just had a bit of a tactical crash just to recover and now we're we're good despite the high frame rate it's actually not that good a gaming experience the image is very teary and you can really feel the input lag let's see 8k there we go and 8k apply oh it does haven't it oh oh it does not like 8k on csgo that just took the system straight down that is quite a unique blue screen of death as well i don't think i've seen four of them on one display okay i guess cs goes out of the questionwhoa look at the size of the cursor in dota it's like basically the size of my so with dota 1080p highest settings we're getting about 200 frames per second uh so let's immediately just very quicklyi wouldn't be surprised if dota 2 would run on an easy bake oven because we're getting almost 24 frames per second at 8k with an rx 6400 now don't get me wrong this is by no means a usable result and if you enter a ranked game with this kind of performance you're full-on griefing but still that's that's kind of crazy now we may just be in a corridor here but of course half-life 2 at 1080p high settings runs crazy well on this system because well it's not a casio watch but let's let's make it a little bit more daunting just immediately off the bat with 4k it had zero impact on the frame rate even coming outside we're still running at a solid 300 ish frames per second so yeah let's jump to 8k they clearly did not foresee the half-life 2 title being displayed in 8k ever look at that i like how the scaling just completely falls apart at 8k it does not even almost know what to do with itself here but once i loaded into the game i was genuinely blown away the complete lack of jaggies is the thing that really gets me about it native 8k is actually kind of wild you can clearly tell that the textures and stuff were not made with 8k in mind but you get right up to the image and it's just so crisp i'm so impressed with how well half-life 2 scales with crazy high resolutions of course when you get close up to the textures you can see that they don't look fantastic but something about the resolution just makes the old graphics look weirdly real and look at how well it's running like if this tv could display 120 hertz 8k we'd be able to game with high refresh rate 8k on an rx 6400 granted the game is almost 20 years old at this point but still this makes me really want to do a video with dynamic super resolution in this tv to see if we can use half-life 2 to bring a 30-90 ti to its knees i think that would be pretty cool and just like that i was hooked to the uncanny appeal of super high resolution gaming i was trying every old game in my steam library that i thought would work on the system and i was blown away every time the impeccable sharpness of the high resolution gives this uncanny realism to the bad graphics that makes it seem more like you're seeing in bad graphics than playing a game that has bad graphics if that makes sense and anna was really impressed with the size of it and and it's kind of because of its size that i think that like i feel like i could be walking into this doorway yeah like would be that size i feel like if i was running upstairs they would be that size it's like the scale of the image is lifelike yeah yes i think it's that so what started out as an exercise in gpu torture ended up getting me really excited about old video games which i think is a good point to end off this video if you want to check out another video a suggestion will pop up in a second and consider subscribing while you're clicking around on stuff and until the next video thank you for watching byeyou
