FullHD games on 2k laptop screen

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Hello
Im going to buy Lenovo Legion 5 Pro and I have question about resolution. Laptop resolution is 2560x1600 on 16" display, but I want to to set the games resolution to fullHD to reach more fps (its RTX 3060 model).

Is the screen going to be worse (blur, pixels etc)? I dont know how scaling will work. I read some articles and theres no clear answer for me, some ppls says that quality will be worse, then another says that on laptop display it does not matter that much and there should't be difference.

Any advices?


Thanks for replies.
 
I can't see a difference. Eyes past their prime though. I rarely use the laptop screen for games. I usually run mine on an attached 24" FullHD screen.
 
Depends on the scaling used/possible and whether the image is 1:1 pixels with black borders or scaled to the full display. If stretched to fill the display it will look slightly softer than native res - you'd be better off in games which support DLSS just using native res and dropping DLSS to balanced or auto instead.

EDIT: If at all possible I'd say stretch your budget to a laptop with a 130-140 watt 3070 or an equivalent 4000 series, the gaming performance will be much better.
 
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jrwagh333 said:
Not sure how that helps the OP in the slightest
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What people see is subjective. I gave my subjective opinion that I can't see a difference. When I've run them on the laptop screen. But I qualified that by saying I'm not a user who is chasing 4k.

4k v FullHD on a decent TV and source material. Definitely. In a fast moving game on 15" screen. Nope. I deliberately picked the Legion Pro for the brighter and better screen for productivity. Games were a lower priority. Hence I got the 3060.

If you want uncompromising game quality and performance you wouldn't be picking a 3060 anyway. You also wouldn't be running in FullHD. If you are a hardcore uncompromising gamer you wouldn't be using a laptop either.
 
Rroff said:
Depends on the scaling used/possible and whether the image is 1:1 pixels with black borders or scaled to the full display. If stretched to fill the display it will look slightly softer than native res - you'd be better off in games which support DLSS just using native res and dropping DLSS to balanced or auto instead.

EDIT: If at all possible I'd say stretch your budget to a laptop with a 130-140 watt 3070 or an equivalent 4000 series, the gaming performance will be much better.
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Agree with this although another good option is the Asus Strix G15 with its Ryzen 5900H CPU and 6800M XT GPU. Can be had for around £1300 (or less for a refurb with 1 yr warranty).

Equivalent 4000 series will be interesting as there are a staggeringly small amount of reviews available for anything lower than the 4080 mobile based laptops. The 4070 @ max TGP is already known to perform roughly on par with a max TGP 3070Ti (san DLSS3) so the 4060 may get close to a 3070 albeit not a Max TGP variant. The 4000 series is a bit of a mish mash tbh. The 4080 and 4090 are good, if expensive, whilst the 4050 and 4070 are hampered big time by their weak memory bus. The 4050 especially (96bit bus) looks good in synthetics then falls apart in actual gaming scenarios with poor frame times (even if the overall averages are better than the 3050Ti it replaces).

Interestingly enough, and I am going a little off topic here, I found a quick CP2077 performance run down of the new Legion 7i (13900HX / 4080 150-175w TGP) which I was able to compare to my 5800H / 3080 150-165w Legion. With a bit of a bump in clocks on my Legion (no where near max OC) the 4080 equipped model was ~30% ahead at 1080p but only 20~ ahead at 1440p. I would guess this would drop further at 1440p UW and 4K but there were no data points available. Factoring in the faster CPU (CP2077 loves a fast CPU) and pushing the clocks more I reckon I could get the 1440p gap down to ~10% or so. Not bad for the "old girl". :)

On that note I also now have a Flow Z13 with a 12900H and the (max TGP) 3080 in the XG Mobile. Will be interesting to see how close I can get with that as well.
 
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