Any point in shooting for a 4K display for gaming if not gaming at 4K?

Gimpymoo

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I am in the market for a new monitor.

1440p seems where it is at.

Realistically, I will not be gaming at 4K.

My head tells me that 4K at 1080p would not be ideal.

Although is it true that 1080p scales "very well" on 4K displays owing to the arithmetic?

1440p would be more realistic but even then, would it scale 1080p to a playable fashion or would it be fugly?

Many thanks and I hope what I have said makes sense :)
 
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I will run bf4 in 1080p later and report back.

Honestly don't think it will be so bad.

Will try find time tomorrow to try between scaling on gpu and scaling on screen - unless someone does that tonight for you.
 
1080p on 1080p is hard enough to look at once you see games in real 4K or DSR and anything below 4K on a 4K will look equally bad with scaling i think. What i would do is get the Swift or Eizo FG2421 and use Nvdia DSR instead like i have done.


You get the refresh rate bonus and resolution choices. But with a 4K monitor your never going to have the option to up refresh rate or get good blacks or motion clarity. I have only owned the Eizo for a few days and i will not be moving for a fair while. Infact you will struggle to get me off this now until 4K/120 is a proper standard. My jaws been on the floor since i ran L4D2 at 4K/120 and im clocking in 80-100fps with my 980/4770k at stock.


It murdered my old IPS the blacks levels really do pound the ROG Swift into the ground and i can literally now drag windows around in windows with about 5% blur. Hell i can read the text no problems seriously impressed with the way you can now get technology that will not even be here for another year or two thanks to DSR/VSR.
 
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Well I've tried gaming at 1080p and 1440p on my 4K panel and it was way way better than I expected to be honest, especially 1440p on Alien Isolation. I did use CRU on my previous 27" 1080p monitor and thought wow! BUT.....3840X2160, man that's the dogs ********. :D
 
Rofflay said:
anything below 4K on a 4K will look equally bad with scaling i think.
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Not true.

On the Philips 4k 40" 1440p looks great. 1080p looks awful, but that's not a scaling issue, it's just that 1080p is pretty cruddy on a big screen. People are even running superwide resolutions and reporting that it works well.

I'm not sure if that translates to other 4k panels, probably not, but I was really surprised by how playable 1440p is on my monitor.
 
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