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How much does high resolution effect your games fps

bakes0310

bakes0310

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Basically as title ive always wondered, how much your framerates in games get affected from different size monitors.
Ive got a 19" monitor so i play at 1280x1024, but i used to have a 17" and play at i think 1024x900. And i dont remember there being any fps difference when i went to my monitor i got now the 19".

So whos gone from a 19" say to a 23"+ has your fps really dropped to quite a big scale. Do you regret doing it now some big titles are on the way and you just know that your gonna struggle even if you had a 19".
 
Depends on a mixture of variables.

If your gpu's bottlenecked by your cpu then fps might not change as resolution rises. However, regardless of bottlenecking, frame rates tend to really suffer with a lot of modern games as you approach 1600x1200.

Infact, some of the most recent titles will need two of the most powerful cards on the market to even consider running on the 30" screens @ 2560x1600 - and in some cases even the 1920x1200 screens! :eek:

To answer you 19"-23" question - most 19" are 1280x1024 or 1440x900 and 23" screens (only seen the apple versions) are 1920x1200.

In pixel terms that's quite a jump so fps should drop:

1280x1024 = just over 1.3 million pixels
1440x900 = just under 1.3million pixels
1920x1200 = just over 2.3 million pixels

A simple way to look at that is that it's nearly double the pixels so should nearly halve the performance of the card you have.

General concensus at the moment is that an 8800GTX is the minimum you'd want to run a 1920x1200 screen with recent games.

gt
 
gt_junkie said:
Depends on a mixture of variables.

If your gpu's bottlenecked by your cpu then fps might not change as resolution rises. However, regardless of bottlenecking, frame rates tend to really suffer with a lot of modern games as you approach 1600x1200.

Infact, some of the most recent titles will need two of the most powerful cards on the market to even consider running on the 30" screens @ 2560x1600 - and in some cases even the 1920x1200 screens! :eek:

To answer you 19"-23" question - most 19" are 1280x1024 or 1440x900 and 23" screens (only seen the apple versions) are 1920x1200.

In pixel terms that's quite a jump so fps should drop:

1280x1024 = just over 1.3 million pixels
1440x900 = just under 1.3million pixels
1920x1200 = just over 2.3 million pixels

A simple way to look at that is that it's nearly double the pixels so should nearly halve the performance of the card you have.

General concensus at the moment is that an 8800GTX is the minimum you'd want to run a 1920x1200 screen with recent games.

gt
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cheers for the good read:)

Im gonna stick with my 19" i think at least my graphics cards performance will last longer.
 
Monitors in the 19-22" range with a 1680x1050 resolution are perfect for performance/pretty balance IMO.

I used to use 1280x960 and 1600x1200 on my old CRT, when I switched to a 19" 1440x900 monitor. 1440x900 was good but I found it a little too restricting when it came to strategy games etc. so I went only one inch bigger to go 1680x1050 and couldn't be happier. No performance loss really and the games look superb.

I've no doubt that my framerate would drop with any higher resolutions though, unless I went SLI.
 
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I went from 1280x1024 to 1920x1200 on a 6800gt. Quite noticeable FPS difference due to only having 256MB ram on the card.
 
I have just went from a 17'' to a 19''ws

Playing WiC I used the ingame benchmark for both monitors. The 17'' used a res of 1024 x 768 and I averaged 16FPS

The 19''ws uses 1440 x 900 and managed to get 15FPS average. So not much of a difference even though a big jump in res.

Thats using a x1950xt Gfx Card
 
I have a dell 24" which can do 1920x1200 (and thats what I use for my desktop etc) but I game at 1680x1050 (unscaled, I just have a black border) because a) I find my 8800gtx is untroubled by this res and b) I sit quite close and find 1920x1200 a bit much to take in comfortably :p
 
I have a Dell 24" + single 8800GTX
Not really tryed anything recent with my setup other than UT3 demo (Smooth:D) and bioshock(Smooth in places:() 1920/1200 @ max
I normally play CSS/BF2/BF2142 anyway.
Do I regret getting a high res monitor?...NOPE:D
 
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