Can You Actually Game in 8K? (RTX 3090 Gameplay!) 

FINALLY 8K

Damn, why is the smoke too realistic, I could smell it too Oh shi- It's my PC

Marques: This doesn't look like 8K. Me watching at 1080p: YeAh tHiS deFinIteLy doEsn'T loOk liKe 8k.

I can definitely see the transitions between 1440p and 8k on my 1080p monitor

I first watched this video 2 years ago on a small 1080p screen. Today I came back to it, and after 2 years of hard work I'm watching you on a brand new 8K TV with an RTX 4090. I finally made it!

This video is 8k RU-vid: 1080 take it or leave it

Most gamers: I wish my game looked as good as the cutscenes. 8k gamers: I wish my cutscenes looked as good as my game.

This video is really just a testament to how good 1080 was, and is.

Me watching 8k gameplay in 240p

Marques: Plays in 8k RU-vid Compression: I'm going to pretend I didn't see that

8:45 "it's very clear when 8K turns back on" Me in 480p: yeah definitely

The "intense straight line concentration" moment was the best for me. His face was super funny as he concentrated on driving in a straight line hahahahahaha loved it!!

Anyone here from 2024?

Me watching from my 720p screen: "Everything checks out here"

Marques be like, "You can really tell when 8K kicks in." Me watching in 1080p be like, "You can really tell when RU-vid compression kicks in."

Even watching this at 2160p I can’t imagine how good 8k really looks

Marques's face @ 13:20 just had me cracking up for some reason, guess I never seen him in that state EVER!🤣🤣🤣

Marques: "You can see the reflection of the world on the water drops" Me watching the video at 240p: "Ah yes I see it"

Me watching in 480p : "Yes, that's insane"

the 4090 is about to come out, it would be good to re do this video with it and see how much we can do with it

Trust me I render scenes in flight simulators at 4k, you need to look at the little things, like leaves moving, blowing in the wind, the tree's swaying, and the shadows of those trees also swaying, magazine ejecting from the gun, and possibly the recoil of that weapon, and other such stuff, shadows are a good give away. it's the little things that move if they don't it's not 4 or 8k. Our simulator at work is true 4k running 9 monitors for a Boeing 737-800NG, and it has 6 computers sharing 4x RTX 8000 grade graphic cards in it just to make it work.

Marques: It's 8K RU-vid: Lol K

Marques: playing in 8K YT: Max settings 1080p Me: Yeah, I see the difference

Marques you should do more 8k gaming. I would watch all day long. You could be my new favorite gaming youtuber

This is a very professionally made video. This is how games journalism should be, and yet you aren't even a game's journalist. Loved the video.

*Video has 8K option* My PC: "Don't even think about it"

Marques: Look at these 8k snow flakes and leaves. Me watching this in 240p: Ah right, looks good.

Really enjoyed yr reaction as you transition into some action in Control.🤣😎

8k looks amazing! havent found a actual 8k video from a creator to watch before haha.

Him playing in 8K: "You can see every little detail" Me watching in 1080p: "Yes very apparant"

"The cutscene is not 8k.... when it cuts back to the game, there's the 8k" Me, on a 1080p screen: Hmm yes, there's the 8k

There is a certain calm "I know what I am dealing with" kinda touch to his voice and I love it

Marques casually seeing the exact moment the screen switches from 8k to 4k and the reverse... that's just insane because i'd be stunned only with the size of the tv LOL

"This whole video is gonna be 8k" Me on my 1080p phone screen: 👁👄👁

Gameplay: 8K RU-vid: 4k Monitor : 1080p Wifi: 360p Me: 144p Hotel: trivago

Wait the 3090 was 3 years ago 😭

It would be cool to have some zoom ins for us on smaller resolution screens but still a nice review!

Marques: “now it’s 8k” RU-vid compression: nah fam we good

"I could see the leaves in the trees" Me watching at 360p: *visible confusion*

Me from the future watching trying to watch this blurry video at 32K

That MKBHD logo on the desktop is really nice

MKBHD : "This video gonna be 8K" *7 Hours later* Highest option still 1080p (checked on PC) RU-vid : "I'm doing my best.. Just sit back and 8K will be ready in few days."

Him: That doesn’t look 8K. Me: I don’t even know what 4K looks like.

Thank God we have 4K on RU-vid out in 2024... Finally saw some unique textures.

It's a tradition to come back to this every once in a while..

Marques: You can tell when it switches to 8k RU-vid: 1080p

This is the first time I’ve seen WORSE cutscenes and BETTER gameplay. That’s astonishing.

Technically it would be difficult to keep the transitions smooth without the prerendered vids, since they are used for transitions between maps

Wow, it's been two years, what a ride it's been

MKBHD playing 8K: “you can see every detail the developers intended” Me watching 360p on my phone: “yeah I see it”

We've come to a point where the in-game graphics could be better than the pre-rendered cut scenes. Wow!

Closest we’ll get to a MKBHD gaming channel

Key MKBHD don't feel bad, I watched your video on 8k resolution and there are few other people who did 👍🏻

0:16 Marques: “This video is gonna be in 8K” RU-vid: “Hol up”

Marques: You can tell when it switches to 8k Me in 360p: YeAh

Awesome video. Is there any reason why the video is rendered at what looks like 30 fps? Is it just because a lot of the time the frame rate was under 60?

Wait, please correct me if i’m wrong but 8k is around 30-32 million pixels if I remember correctly, and he’s running at a smooth 8k 60, so does this mean the gpu is processing 1.8 billion pixels per second?

MKBHD: You guys want to see 8k gaming? RU-vid compression: No

RU-vid compression be like: I'm about to end this cards whole career

I had no idea who you were when i clicked on this video but then i realized i was subscribed and binged watched your channel all week

I am jealous of you even getting 60fps, I can't even get 60fps in 1080p so you have a luxury.

RU-vid: We've been processing this video for about two weeks now...

"that's 8k" me, on my 1080p screen: ah yes. 8k

Lovely. Would love to play in 8k soon :)

Irealise its quality when you started in forest, the green on the trees in the forest is so similar to actual forest green when sunlihjt falls on them its definerely immersive.

Title in 8k, watch in 360p

Marques - "Watch in 8K" RU-vid - "Watch in 0.8K"

I can't wait for the 3090 ti to come out or even the 4090 to come out so you can see if running 5k render resolution on control is possible because holy moly the render resolution upgrade was insane and 8k gaming and 5k render resolution was literally real life

Finally, a video that allows me to justify buying an 85” 8k Samsung TV. Totally immersed as a viewer when he was playing the driving game. Incredible.

congratulations to the one who can actually watch this in 8k.

Can't believe this is already 2 years ago. Was blown away that card this powerful could push 33 million pixels and doing it 30x per second! Now that 4090 is out, 8K 120fps could be possible. Still blows my mind around that sentence!

@mkbhd .... that one was 3 years ago Me watching this one 3 years later" 6 years for me"

Imagine a world where the game looks better than the cutscenes.

The day has finally come where the gameplay is now better than the cinematics

i tried watching this in 8k, now my pc is in 8 pieces

The second I switched the video to 8k, my fans went full throttle, the cpu spikked to 85° and I got blue screen of death within a minute. Congrats!!!

Me watching at 480p : "Yeah! That looks cool"

Game: 8K RU-vid: 4K My WiFi: 144p laggy

Dude what camera was that , you used even at 2160P 4k I can still see every little detail of the light on your skin and every granular detail of the chair your sat on... something tells me if this had been recorded at 4k I wouldn't of seen those details at the distance you are from the camera but like Linus said when you record a video at a higher resolution than the final render it does wonders for the quality! my current build is gateway 4k but I'm planning on getting an RTX3070 in the new ROG STRIX pc i'm slowly building part by part (saving for each component individually!) and apparently the 3070 is at least 8k capable from a media standpoint may be not so much in gaming so maybe I can at least re-run this video in 8k (when the ultrafast FTTP reaches my door that is, i'm planning on the 500mb/s package which should handle viewing 8k), now I know that my 4k monitor isn't 8k one but when I changed from 1080p to 2160p before I got this 4k monitor on my old 1080p monitor I still noticed a clarity difference even though it felt like looking through I mosquito net on real life that was the difference lower resolutions feel like a digital screen made up of pixels but the higher the res of the screen and the video the more it starts to feel like your looking through a window! which is why i'm hoping for a new technology (potentially from Microsoft after all they do own windows and it would be ironic, not to mention their augmented reality glasses technology) so I propose an idea I call the Microsoft Window Monitor or MWM for short a display that not only is 8k but has a special feature that would be unique... using their sensor technologies (which I know Microsoft has)! The feature I speak of would be a monitor with sensor around the frame that detects the users position... i've seen Bruce Dell and his company in Australia use a similar technology in a special pair of 3d glasses so it's not beyond our current capabilities and certainly not Microsoft basically the sensor detects where you are an adjusts the positioning of what's on the screen depending where the user is and calculating the angles based in Realtime, This combined with a layer similar to those 3d glasses but on the screen itself and the 8k resolution would literally give the person at the screen a sense that they are looking into a Window as they move their head the environment be it 3d game or real life (taken with special cameras) would provide an alternative to those not as interested in vr! the technology for higher resolution VR has proven difficult thus far and highly expensive for both consumers and the companies that make them even today the price doesn't appear to be coming down but tv's are a static object they do not need to move and the sensors would be detecting the viewer instead of the surrounding area and 8k technology is easier to make for a screen than a VR set... I do propose another option should Microsoft not be interested... the Portal Monitor based off the popular video game franchise perhaps even with the option of lights to be adjusted for an orange or light blue colour to give a similar effect (but rectangular ofc) some of you might find it stupid but who knows maybe not every body does, I know full well it's possible and if it turns out to be easier to manufacture than high res vr then who knows it might end up being a cheaper alternative in the future, but i'm getting ahead of myself rome wasn't built in a day I know theres technologies out there that do something similar I did see linus test such a 3d tv but that didn't use the method I mentioned! i'm talking about the digital side doing the work running a predictive algorithm to calculate the correct angle of the room and objects displayed on the screen not the same as the one Linus got to see which was more of a physical solution which involved a multilayer glass that went into the more holographic direction!

I love that they have a view like you are a character in the Cars movie

MKBHD: Yeah, this video is 8k. RU-vid: Well yes, but no.

You are killing it, Marques!. lovee uuuu 🤩🤗. Even if u aren't the best gamer, you are The Best RU-vidr.

This amount of frames in 8k is insane, i just cant imagine these and other games at 8k with a 4090!!

"This doesn't look like 8k yet" *Yeah, I'm watching at 480p.*

I've never seen a 4k video in my whole life and this guy is gonna play in 8k

i never got so many chills just by watching someone play a car game

Hi Marques. Do you play ultimate, (I'm guessing because of the shirt. Also, nice first AUDL title if you do play) and if so are you a cutter or a handler.

Not even available in 4K like normal :-(

marques: "its almost 8k..... yeah now its 8k" me watching in 144p: "hmm...yes.....ah yes"

Marques plugging in the other RU-vidrs, gotta love it.

Marques: this entire video will be in 8k RU-vid: Dream on.

2020: “it doesn’t look 8K” 2003: me all gangsta running GTA vice city at 8 FPS, 640x480

Watching this at a 1080p TV with the 4K encoding (for better quality), even I could detect the switches back and forth to 8K. Not saying that a real 8K monitor wouldn't be even more of a difference, only that it still looks a bit crisper even on an 1920x1080 70" TV.

Watching an 8k gameplay, that is currently being able to be watched in 4K, that is now being watched from 480p

max res 1080 on youtube, gg

Marques wasn't lying when he said the 8K video processing would take a while

watching this in 8k brings me straight back to 2001 -- buffering, buffering, buffering...2042 is gonna be nuts.

1:58 my man playing oldschool runescape what a legend.

MKBHD: “There is a lot of detail in 8K “ Me watching at 480p : yes

20 hours later, 4k not even available on the vid.