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This must be for commercial displays where it is beneficial for installation to have power and data over a single cable.
I can't think why I would want power delivery to my PC monitor over the display cable. It would just put extra thermal load on the GPU.
I think it's aimed at TVs in general, not computer monitors. Many people mount their TVs to the wall, and having a single cable to run hidden in the wall would be awesome.
I wonder what the use case is for 480W though. Gigantic 80" screens generally draw something like 120W. If you're going bigger than that, I would think the mounting/installation would require enough hardware and labor that running out a normal outlet/receptacle would be trivial.
In HDR mode they can draw a lot more than that for short peaks
My 50" 1080p LCD draws over 200w...
Headroom and safety factor. Current screens may draw 120w, but future screens may draw more, and it is much better to be drawing well under the max rated power.
Sound for an 80" screen? Not for home systems.
Projector
Most OLED HDR TVs peak at over 300W.
In wall power cables need to be rated for it to prevent fire risks. This will need to have thick insulation or be made of a fire resistant material.
Nah, it's for powering the 1000w RTX 6090.
The popular use for power delivery through a display cable is charging a laptop from your monitor; it's already very common with Thunderbolt or USB-4 monitors. But 480W seems a bit overkill for that.
Passing power through doesn't have to put noticeable load on the GPU. The main problem I see there is getting even more power to the GPU - Nvidia's top cards are already at the melting point for their power connector.
I specifically said thermal load. Power delivery always causes heat dissipation due to I^2^R losses.
That's what I meant. Compared to the power the GPU is actually using, transmission losses for a pass-through should be negligible. If you have a good way to get it to the card in the first place.
~~Why is that better than usb-c? ~~
Wait... Power the other way. Whoops, I get it.
That already kinda allow this and the actual load is pretty small
Even a big 30 in display is maybe 20 watts
Well, power delivery goes several times that. Laptops are another very useful case for it. It's nice to be able to just have a single display port and power connector
You can do this to an extent, today