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1440p on a 4K display?

Cycom

Cycom

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Seems like there is a bit of talk about some next gen games running or having an option for 1440p. Per the title, how would this resolution look on a 4K tv?
 
i play alot in 1440p on a 65 inch 4k. It is gorgeaous and runs so much better. the step up in resolution is an order of maginitude more pressure on your hardwar but the benefits do not match up in my opinion. a 1440p pretty game is a really pretty game.
 
My native resolution is 4k, so anything less including 1440p doesn't look very sharp with noticeable jaggies. But still playable and after a few minutes of gaming I don't even notice anymore.
 
Cycom said:
Seems like there is a bit of talk about some next gen games running or having an option for 1440p. Per the title, how would this resolution look on a 4K tv?
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Like it does now with many games on a Pro/XBX. You can't see the differences in most cases i.e. a TV from normal sitting distance. You might notice on a monitor that is a 12" from your eyes. This gen has proved that diminishing returns are real, 4k is a marketing term and means little and most developers will use the horsepower for other things rather than just more pixels.
 
Many of the games on PS4 Pro are 1440p. It looks great on its own. But when you jump to a native 4k game, or one that uses checkerboard rendering, the difference in resolution is very obvious.
 
Depends on your tv's scaler. Cheaper 4k tv's tend to butcher 1440p and you end up with a picture that is blurrier then 1080p.
 
yurqqa said:
Who in their right mind needs 8K then ?

Maybe 100'' and higher for people who live in the houses from 60s SciFi books...
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Way back it was said that 1080p was useless on sub 40 inch screens. but my 1080p 15 inch laptop is ofcourse better than my old 720p. 1440p looks great on my S5E.

I think its because you're close to these screens. When I get close to my TV I can see the benefits of native 4K, pixels and artefacts are hardly visible.
 
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yurqqa said:
Who in their right mind needs 8K then ?

Maybe 100'' and higher for people who live in the houses from 60s SciFi books...
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I thought one of the reasons for 8k is 1440p looks better on 8k than 4k because 8k evenly divides into 1440p. What I mean is that 8k is 3x as many pixels in either direction than 1440p where 4k is 1.5 pixels. That means to display 1440p on an 8k screen you just take a 3x3 group of pixels to make one 1440p pixels vs trying to take "1.5 pixels" on a 4k screen to do 1440p which in theory means 1440p on 4k is blurry than 1440p on 8k. No idea how true this is in practice.
 
Bare in mind that this 1440p will most definitely be upscaled to 4K like it already does on Pro/1X, so it wont be nowhere near as bad as native 1440p.
 
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It looks good enough.

also depends on the game, some games just have that sperm smeared look in their code (sometimes you can fix this on pc)
 
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ironDUKE said:
i play alot in 1440p on a 65 inch 4k. It is gorgeaous and runs so much better. the step up in resolution is an order of maginitude more pressure on your hardwar but the benefits do not match up in my opinion. a 1440p pretty game is a really pretty game.
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Completely agreed. Honestly, 1440p brings a really good image quality, specially when you have some render technics. Rather have a game more fluid, higher fps and with extra special effects than native 4k.
 
I always look for a 4K TV that supports 1440p natively, I currently have an LG that does that, and it looks really good.
 
If you sit 9-10'+ from a 4K display you likely won't be able to tell the difference between 1440p and 4K. From 5-6' and under 1440p is noticeably softer looking (the degree of which varies with TAA implementation). The blurring effects of TAA are a great equalizer.
 
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scraz said:
Now if i can just find a 3080FE....
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Consoles do quite a good job at making sub native images look good on TV's. It's one of the advantages over PC's. I'm sure it will look fine and the trade off for having a game that doesn't feel like it's broken will be well worth it. 30fps is jank as fuck.
 
skneogaf said:
Better than 1080p on a 4k tv
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Well ... that's a fact :)

1440p looks quite good on a 4k TV. But it always depends on the content. A game can have a 4k resolution but look like shit and another have 720p and looks great.
General speaking, I hope that 1440p is more or less the lowest res for xbox series x and PS5 as there was already a PS4 Pro and a xbox one x that had normally higher resolutions (I would exclude the series s here, because this targets a different audience). But resolution is only one modifier to get a great looking game. High pixelcounts are not a guarantee for good games.
 
Not as good as 4k but increase the sharpening a bit and it still looks great. Upscaling is way, way better on TVs than on monitors.
 
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