Forcing 1440p on a 1080p monitor

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Had the temptation to purchase a new monitor, my friend has all the top hardware inside his rig and he has the ASUS ROG SWIFT PG278QR monitor so I can assume that thats up there too.

I recently stumbled across the AMD control panel settings though that lets you force higher than supported resolutions on your monitor, Virtual Super Resolution and GPU Scaling.

I am now running my monitor successfully in 2560x1440 @ 100hz

My monitor is the Acer GD245HQ 24" 120hz
GPU is R9 290 as well.

My questions are:

Am I really at that resolution or what exactly is going on?
If I am, is this any different to if I was actually using a 1440p monitor?
If no or not really much different, then is it actually worth it spending £500 for a new monitor?
 
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