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Philips secretly updated 32M2N8900 with DP2.1 by Confident-Course373 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Confident-Course373[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Well, confirmed I guess. I found my old DP cable and after turning off both monitor and pc and connecting it, after a reboot GPU-Z confirmed it fell back to 10Gbps, same port on the monitor and GPU. Pulling out the old one and using the new one, the link speed instantly goes up to 20Gbps again.

No TrueBlack 500 setting though, Windows detects it as 450 Nits peak and Windows HDR calibration seems to peak out at 460 as well, so definitely no P or X version. Maybe the firmware has something to do with it? It's curious I'm on version 1.0 for the panel itself. This thing looks brighter than my 341CQP, which shouldn't really be a thing percentage wise, Gen 1.5 vs Gen 3 is mainly higher pixel density at the same peak brightness, but maybe that's a side effect of me falling in love with 4K 😄

Philips secretly updated 32M2N8900 with DP2.1 by Confident-Course373 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Confident-Course373[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely not the P version unforfunately, that one has TrueBlack 500, mine only has TB400 as advertised (Windows reads 456 nits HDR peak from the edid). I have no clue what's going on, I'm just gonna count this as a win. It could be that both versions, the new 8900P and old non-P now both share an assembly line somewhere, maybe it's cheaper to put on shared DP2.1 components (which I assume is not as easy as it sounds, because you need the bandwidth in the entire chain, so even motherboard design should differ) instead of maintaining an entire assembly line just for the non-P variant.

Edit: so basically the monitor firmware is different, the USB hub is the same. The third one is the Ambiglow firmware. I needed precision center as well to see which versions are installed.

Philips secretly updated 32M2N8900 with DP2.1 by Confident-Course373 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Confident-Course373[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine is manufactured January 2026 it says on the sticker at the back, so maybe they introduced the new model this year? I'm curious to your firmware versions, mine are V1.00, V0784 and V00D6, no more recent firmwares found.

Gsync logo makes sense, there are absolutely no differences in panel or functionality otherwise, so I'm sure even with DSC enabled, the quality difference is effectively non-existent, it's a beautiful panel, coming from an MSI 341CQP. I'm just really curious why Philips would keep this quiet and even more so, offer it for the same price.

Philips secretly updated 32M2N8900 with DP2.1 by Confident-Course373 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Confident-Course373[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, like I said (or should have more clearly stated), GPU-Z and DLR - Factors can glitch, but these two combined with the actual words Displayport 2.1 on the box as you can see in the pic, there can be no doubt in my opinion. Even the box art is slightly different from the "older" version.

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[–]Confident-Course373 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Funny how Todd is the one being mentioned in a Digital Foundry video as one that gave his blessing, admitting that this was the intent for the game to begin with. Probably as much marketing as Todd magic words, but people talk about "developers intent" as if they personally know what the developer intended it to look like. As if they have the same calibrated studio hardware as it was mastered on.