Sunday, May 8th 2016

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Does Away with D-Sub (VGA) Support

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btarunr
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NVIDIA appears to have done away with support for the legacy D-Sub (VGA) analog connector, with its latest GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. The card's DVI connector does not have wiring for analog signals. Retail cards won't include DVI to D-Sub dongles, even aftermarket dongles won't work. What you get instead on the card, are one dual-link DVI-D, an HDMI 2.0b, and three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors. NVIDIA's rival AMD did away with D-Sub support on its high-end graphics cards way back in 2013, with the Radeon R9 290 series.

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81 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Does Away with D-Sub (VGA) Support

#76
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
Solidstate89They won't be buying high-end, modern graphics cards on those budgets either. So what's your point?
That's what my original point was. If you are unable to afford a first world monitor probably not going to be able to afford a first world video card
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#77
arbiter
FordGT90Concept#1 advantage to VGA: no HDCP.
Not like something to remove HDCP is hard to get on the internet as it is but HDCP isn't required on HDMI when you are captureing games.
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#78
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
HDMI 1.2 (I think it was) had a bug in HDCP so that's often used to circumvent HDCP via a splitter. Problem is, it limits bandwidth so on really high resolution stuff, it won't work.
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#79
arbiter
FordGT90ConceptHDMI 1.2 (I think it was) had a bug in HDCP so that's often used to circumvent HDCP via a splitter. Problem is, it limits bandwidth so on really high resolution stuff, it won't work.
generally not capturing more then 1080 anyway so not really issue least at this point.
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#80
GoldenX
Solidstate89They won't be buying high-end, modern graphics cards on those budgets either. So what's your point?
My point is what happens with the low end.
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#81
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
GoldenXMy point is what happens with the low end.
It continues to be a rebranded 6 year old card.
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