People are forgetting about another big issue with 8k, the HDMI foundation doesn't an available 8k120 standard and they wouldn't allow displayports that can theoretically handle it to be placed on a TV with a port that supports 4k120 or higher. There are plenty of games I play that would benefit from 8k120 on a large format display, but they simply don't exist yet.
I bought a 65" 4k120 TV the moment they became available and I've been waiting for my "dream display" which is a and ~85-90" 8k120 display.
Playing civilization, Warhammer, or being in massive space battles in EvE on a large display does incredible things. But I have a unique use case as my PC is also my home theater.
The low DPI of a 4k65" TV makes using it in desktop a bit of a pain and I've been waiting for 8k for a very long time. The thing is, I'm not paying $10,000 for 60hz.
As far as other games go, I have a a rolling keyboard stand that I position about 4-5 feet away from my desk when playing FPS games and I have the couch 10 feet away for watching movies and content consumption.
And before anyone asks, I'm divorced without kids
Speaking of warhammer: Space marine 2, according to TPU, averages 149 FPS at 1080p, and only 81 FPS at 4k, on a 4090. at 8k I'd be surprised if it could maintain 40. Even worse, step down 1 tier tot he 4080, and you go from 147 FPS all the way to 60, and at 8k I doubt it could maintain a constant 25. Those are $1000 GPUs in theory.
You might be a decade at least away from GPUs that could even push 8k120, setting aside that node improvements have slowed to a crawl.
There's no media to begin with to really take advantage of 8K.
Do you see Netflix, Youtube or any other popular streaming app capable of handling up to 8K?
Likely there's barely any difference to be seen unless you look at details compared to 4K and 8K.
That's because you are using streaming services. Youtube and Netflix's 4k streams have worse bitrates then a 1080p blu ray. They are true smear-o-vision.
If I compare a 4k stream vs a 1080p blu ray, I can tell the difference almost immediately. and yeah, a 4k blu ray looks amazing on my 85" TV. I'm sure that 8k woudl be better, but given how terribly 4k blu ray was handled, and the move away from physical media, true 8k is 50 years away at least.
8K has one use, 4K 3D. 4K to each eye.
That's not 8k, that's 2x4k. 8k is 4x the pixel count of 4k.
2x4k is feasible, depending on the software used, on GPUs like the 4090.
I bet 8k cheap TVs are the easier step. Proper 8k content however wont be there anytime soon. I cannot imagine a reason why even richest streaming companies would offer 8k content.
Same goes for sport pros. It would be insanely expensive to update to 8 to stream.
And many more reason such as GPUs that are too expensive, people living in rural areas on mobile internet.
Streaming will never truly catch up. Displayport 2 peaks at 80Gbps bandwidth for a reason, even with gigabit internet you cannot stream native 1080p, let alone 4k or 8k. Any 8k content you can stream today is so bit crushed that you may as well go back to arial TV on a tube box.
