There's a Hidden Limit to DisplayPort 2.1 - YouTube Watch On DisplayPort 2.1 GPU connected to DisplayPort 2.1 monitor. Result? DisplayPort 2.1 connect. Right? Apparently not, according to Monitors Unboxed . At least, not always. DisplayPort, of course, optionally uses a form of image compression known as Display Stream Compression or DSC. While it's meant to be visually lossless, there's some debate over the possible downsides of running a monitor with DSC enabled. There have been reports, for instance, of black screen problems with Nvidia GPUs when enabling DSC and also the loss of DLDSR functionality . Anywho, Monitors Unboxed says that, unless you are using the correct cable type, it's "very unlikely" that a DP 2.1 display and GPU combo will actually run with DP 2.1 enabled. Monitors Unboxed demonstrates this with a 32-inch 4K Asus QD-OLED monitor with DP 2.1 support and an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU .…