BOE teases 31.5-inch 8K 120Hz monitor, gearing up for 2025 release, will require RTX 7090

BOE of China is the world's largest panel maker in the world, teasing its new 31.5-inch LCD monitor rocking a native 8K resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. Check it out:

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The new BOE 31.5-inch 8K 120Hz monitor wasn't the only thing shown off at the SID Display Week (DW 2025) with Bob Raikes writing for the 8K Association, reporting that there were a bunch of TVs, other 8K products, and more at the event. The BOE 8K 120Hz monitor was just one of them, and it definitely isn't the first... I reported on Sharp teasing a 31.5-inch 8K 120Hz HDR monitor and 8K AIO PC back in April 2019... years later, and we're getting closer to that 8K 120Hz reality.

At last year's event, the CEO of TCL/CSOT (the panel-making division of the TCL TV company) talked about their plans of developing inkjet printing (IJP) of OLEDs, as well as their own research, the company got the technology when it acquired JOLED, a Japanese company that had been developing some inkjet-printed OLED displays. At the event, TCL showed off a 65-inch TV with an 8K resolution, created with IJP.

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Another interesting product at the show was an interesting 9:8 aspect ratio display that had a native 4320 x 3840 resolution, measuring 85 inches diagonal. Inside of the booth, two of the panels were "spliced together" to create an ultra-huge LCD. We'd normally have an annoying visible black line down the center, but at the show the company used a strip of transparent material embedded into the mini-LEDs that was showing from the original image, concealing the gap.

Raikes writes: "From a distance and with the right content, the join was barely visible. The writer first saw this kind of technology from a company called Pallas LCD back in 2013 and it wouldn't surprise us if this technology was developed by or with that firm, although the last activity we could find on the web by Pallas was from İSE in 2018".

BOE's next-gen 31.5-inch 8K 120Hz monitor would require some serious GPU horsepower, with NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 not offering enough power to drive 8K at 120FPS and beyond. I doubt the next-gen RTX 6090 would handle it, so we might be waiting until the next-next-gen RTX 7090 is here before 8K @ 120FPS gaming is a reality.