TECH NEWS – It’s still very much a futuristic technology, but it’s safe to say that Sony and Guerrilla’s game played a part in this outstanding achievement.

Earlier this month, during the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show 2025 in Las Vegas, the 8K Association unveiled its “world’s first” 8K@120Hz game on HDMI 2.1. This specification is known to be limited to 8K@60Hz, but Display Stream Compression was used to get around this limitation. The PC ran entirely on AMD hardware, and the game used for the demonstration was a particularly well-optimized port of Horizon Forbidden West.

“At one end of the booth, there was a real-time gaming demonstration using an AMD-based gaming PC and a special 65″ TV flown in from Korea by 8K Association member Samsung that supported 120fps display. The game was Horizon Forbidden West and the TV was a modified Neo QLED 8K set with Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), and FreeSync Premium Pro. The PC was from Maingear and used an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU and an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU.

The game supports the Steam platform, which allows you to view analytics and confirm 120Hz operation. The game was rendered at 5K and then internally upscaled using AMD ML-based FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 technology. The signal was sent to the TV via HDMI 2.1b with DSC support, and the impressively smooth visuals drew a lot of attention from attendees, especially those who already knew the game, which is visually very impressive,” the 8K Association website said.

HDMI 2.2 was announced at CES and is expected to arrive this year, with 8K displays becoming more common thanks to the doubled bandwidth (96 Gbps). But it will also require a sufficiently powerful graphics card. So 8K still seems a bit overkill… although we’ve seen Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 running Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 at 16K (!) without any frame rate generation!

Source: WCCFTech, 8K Association