Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.

The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve’s Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

  • 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Technically no, it has to specifically have Dual-Mode support (DP++). In practice most of them do, at least in the consumer space.

    If it doesn’t then you need an active adapter.