I upgraded from an old laptop to a 4070. I tried HDR and I don’t see a difference at all. I turned off all the lights, closed the blinds and turned the (hdr compatible, I checked) screen to max brightness. I don’t see a difference with HDR turned on or off.
Next I tried path tracing. I could see a difference, but honestly, not much at all. Not nearly enough to warrant reduced FPS and certainly not enough to turn down other graphics settings to keep the FPS.
To me, both are just buzzwords to get people to fork over more money.
Seems to me that you got an early or cheaper HDR display, then. To me the difference is night and day.
FWIW, HDR does its best work if you have a display that can do true blacks. If you don’t have an OLED, mini LED, or full array, you’re going to have a hard time noticing the difference, especially if you don’t know what you’re looking for. HDR works best in either extremely dark or bright scenes, so having a display with a near infinite contrast ratio is important.
Here’s a hint for any display: Look at some HDR clouds while you toggle HDR on and off. You’ll definitely notice the difference there. Also check the teals. It’s less obvious but SDR displays can’t do a proper teal.
I tried it on a few OLED smartphones too, couldn’t see a difference.
I tried it with some HDR demo videos, so I expected that these would show off the difference especially well, but I couldn’t see the difference at all.
I’ll try it again with clouds and teals, but I don’t have a huge affinity for distinguishing minute colour differences in general (I’m not colour blind or anything, but it’s hard for me to differentiate between very similar colours), so that might play into it.
HDR is more for showing the “depth” of an image, not as much the color gamut (how many colors it can show).
HDR will help more with things like if you’re inside a building and looking out in a daylight scene. Youll be able to see more of both inside and outside the building. Of course it won’t make your monitor better, but assuming you have more than a basic display you should be able to see a difference.
Tbh, I haven’t done time, but that’s still me.
I upgraded from an old laptop to a 4070. I tried HDR and I don’t see a difference at all. I turned off all the lights, closed the blinds and turned the (hdr compatible, I checked) screen to max brightness. I don’t see a difference with HDR turned on or off.
Next I tried path tracing. I could see a difference, but honestly, not much at all. Not nearly enough to warrant reduced FPS and certainly not enough to turn down other graphics settings to keep the FPS.
To me, both are just buzzwords to get people to fork over more money.
Seems to me that you got an early or cheaper HDR display, then. To me the difference is night and day.
FWIW, HDR does its best work if you have a display that can do true blacks. If you don’t have an OLED, mini LED, or full array, you’re going to have a hard time noticing the difference, especially if you don’t know what you’re looking for. HDR works best in either extremely dark or bright scenes, so having a display with a near infinite contrast ratio is important.
Here’s a hint for any display: Look at some HDR clouds while you toggle HDR on and off. You’ll definitely notice the difference there. Also check the teals. It’s less obvious but SDR displays can’t do a proper teal.
I tried it on a few OLED smartphones too, couldn’t see a difference.
I tried it with some HDR demo videos, so I expected that these would show off the difference especially well, but I couldn’t see the difference at all.
I’ll try it again with clouds and teals, but I don’t have a huge affinity for distinguishing minute colour differences in general (I’m not colour blind or anything, but it’s hard for me to differentiate between very similar colours), so that might play into it.
HDR is more for showing the “depth” of an image, not as much the color gamut (how many colors it can show).
HDR will help more with things like if you’re inside a building and looking out in a daylight scene. Youll be able to see more of both inside and outside the building. Of course it won’t make your monitor better, but assuming you have more than a basic display you should be able to see a difference.