Speculative suggestions please as Nvidia demonstrates 1,700Hz refresh 'Zero Latency Display'

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

With so much chatter and eager expectation of great things to come this news story jumped up and smacked me in the face.

"Here's another interesting snippet of news from Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2016, held this week. Nvidia Vice President of Research David Luebke took to the stage to reveal and demonstrate a prototype 'Zero Latency Display' in a special 'Sneak Peek' presentation. Aimed at VR environments, where latency of any kind can spoil the experience, this display refreshes at a superlative 1,700Hz."

the rest of the short piece is here....along with a vid
http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/91943-nvidia-demonstrates-1700hz-refresh-zero-latency-display/

My question is.............................

What spec of computer would you need in order to drive a 1700Hz display. ????

 

[qubit]

This looks amazing! Gonna check out the video later when I get a moment.

 

[RCoon]

With so much chatter and eager expectation of great things to come this news story jumped up and smacked me in the face.

"Here's another interesting snippet of news from Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2016, held this week. Nvidia Vice President of Research David Luebke took to the stage to reveal and demonstrate a prototype 'Zero Latency Display' in a special 'Sneak Peek' presentation. Aimed at VR environments, where latency of any kind can spoil the experience, this display refreshes at a superlative 1,700Hz."

the rest of the short piece is here....along with a vid
http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/91943-nvidia-demonstrates-1700hz-refresh-zero-latency-display/




My question is.............................

What spec of computer would you need in order to drive a 1700Hz display. ????

Everything would need to be coded in parallel in an entirely new engine/new api. Then, theoretically you could use any number of GPUs to process the information without relying on the failings of multi-GPU profiles. Assuming 100% scaling, you'd need about 30 high end GPUs to drive 1700 FPS.

EDIT: In essence, a small supercomputer could do it (assuming the parallel processing was achieved).

 

[Sasqui]

Aside from the ability of the video card to send frames that fast, which is not going to happen anytime soon... OLED is being used in most VR headsets for that very reason, the response time is blazing fast, around the 1ms mark and that's not just grey-grey.

Much of the speed is in the display processor itself, and the current reason that OLED TV's suck as monitors ....the lag due to all that processing in the display, it takes time.

 

[RejZoR]

Why do people think such screen needs an input of 1700fps? You don't. It can be async refreshing, this just means the screen will refresh entire screen 1700 times a second, even if you serve it only 120fps. Effect should be similar to 1700fps.

I mean, what usually blurs the image are crappy panels that can't refresh pixels fast enough, not the image input. Though higher framerate helps. This screen also probably has a pixel response time in nanoseconds and not milliseconds. I mean, high end monitors are already at 1ms GTG pixel response times. Usually 120 or 144Hz ones. For 1700Hz you need a lot faster pixels. Otherwise you can't even achieve that.