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HDMI 2.1 and Display Stream Compression have been added to AMD's Linux display drivers.
AMD's Linux drivers now support HDMI 2.1 and Display Stream Compression for the first time.
KEY POINTS
- The new driver patch enables up to 4K 240 Hz or 8K 120 Hz output on supported devices.
- This update resolves previous limitations of 60 Hz at 4K and chroma subsampling on Linux.
- Recent AMD GPUs like the Radeon RX 9070 XT will directly benefit from this Linux driver update.
- The Steam Machine’s initial HDMI 2.0 limitation was due to Linux driver gaps, now addressed by AMD.
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