News Nvidia and Asus announce world's first 360Hz monitor

From the Guru3d article:

Emphasis mine. 3440*1440*10*3*200*10/8 = 37,152,000,000

 

My bad, however the same issue will also apply with that 38" LG as it is also 10 bit (so you still throw away either 10bit or 175hz).

 

Is this why they sell it as 144hz ... and you can ‘overclock’ it to 175hz (but lose some bit) ... ?

 

Presumably yes.

 

Maybe that isn’t such an issue for me ...

If I’m playing a multiplayer FPS like CSGO on such a big screen I’d turn down a few things to maximise the fps and overclock it.

then if I’m playing other games and want the best colour reproduction I’d downclock it?

 

No. The 10/8 is due to the LVDS signalling protocol used for DP using a 10:8 encoding scheme for forward error correction: for every 8 "real" bits you want to send, 10 bits are transmitted over each channel (8 data 2 parity essentially). Hence to get from the "real" bitrate required to the raw channel bitrate used, you need to multiply by 10/8.

True, but it's also a basic fake-HDR panel (SDR panel with hDR colour space squished into pointlessness), rather than something that could take any real advantage of 10bit colour depth with enhanced contrast.
According to TFTcentral's panel database, the LG 38GL950 uses the LG Display LM375QW2 panel. That is an 8-bit panel, so in 10-bit mode it's using FRC rather than native 10bit pixel driving. Combined with the lack of HDR, and the pretty low likelihood any given game will be using high bit depth for anything other than HDR (i.e. nobody bothers to master for 10 bit SDR), no real loss from 'dropping' to 8 bit.

 

@Anfield (post: #14)

Correct the attribution of the quote you used please, that was not said by me.

 

No clue how that happened since I never typed your name and it had the autogenerated link stuff and everything?

Anyway, it has been fixed.

 

Thank-you.