While the world and his dog are still making the steady transition to 4K as a default for gaming, we're still a long way off from that becoming a mainstream resolution. Not only do graphics cards need to improve, but the monitors and displays need to be upgraded - even if their prices are coming down slowly but surely.
But that's just the immediate future. What comes next? What's after that? 8K of course.
Right now that's not really something that anyone can feasibly achieve, partly because the display would cost thousands and thousands of dollars and the graphics card configuration you'd need to run it is equally ridiculous. But that doesn't stop people from trying.
Thirty IR took a stab at it with two PCs. It used a system with four-way SLI'd GTX Titan Xp graphics cards, overclocked to run at 2,038MHz on the core, combined with a Core i7-6950X CPU and 64GB of DDR4 memory to run The Witcher III at 8k resolution with all settings maxed out.
Not only that though, it used a second PC running four GTX 1080 Tis, a Core i7-3970X and 32GB of DDR3 memory, just to record the footage.
You can get a rough idea of what it looks like in the Youtube video above, but be aware that your system will probably even struggle to run the video at that resolution. It is gorgeous though [thanks Kotaku].
