1080 or 1440?

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So I'm building a PC and I was wondering what resolution monitor I should get, a 1080p or 1440p. The price is not really what concerns me but more the compatibility. I know my GPU can support both resolutions so that's fine, but does it matter when playing games? For example, would the game screen be stretched out since the monitor is 1440p? Or would it not make a difference since it's still using the 16:9 ratio? Also, I have another question. If I were watching a 1080p youtube video on a 1440p screen, would the video stretch or not take up the whole screen?

Thank you for your time.

Edit: Sorry for the confusing thread, but thank you for your helpful answers. :)

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Games you will need to change the resolution, all good ports support this. and watching 1080p youtube on a 1440p screen is like watching 720p on a 1080p screen, your a good to go

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Which gpu do you have?
And which particular games you like to play?

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Typically you could have a 1080p eyrfinity setup for the price of a solid 1440p monitor. It depends.

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Might as well go 1440p, it doesn't take too much more to run than 1080p, and it's a lot easier to work with if you're running with a single monitor.

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I asked myself this same question a few months ago. I went with dual 1080p monitors cause both of them together were the same price as the 1440p monitor I wanted.

I'm happy with my decision. Dual monitors are very efficient in getting work done.

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1440p is great, assuming of course you have a card that can drive it for the next year or two. If you aren't afraid of korean monitors or refurbished there's this, all the reviews i've seen say it's a good refurbish i will be getting one soon.


1440p for the price of 1080p.

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Another option, is go straight to 4K, the A399U monitor is quite good 60hz, and because it's 4k, it scales 1080p perfectly. The only downside (???) is that it's a 40" monitor. Editing Video on that monitor was insane!

if you only have the one monitor, if you have your games set to 1080, you get a really well scaled 40" 1080 display.

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As long as you have something like a 380/960 or higher then you'll be fine.

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nothing about a 960 is even fine for 1080p. It was outdated hardware at launch better suited for WoW and such.

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They did make a 4GB version, but at that price the AMD counterpart is better.

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You can get a 1080p IPS display for around 120 though

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You should definitely go to 1440p! i have been a 1080p and 1200p user for a long time,
now that i switched to 1440p it is a hell of a lot better!! on a Asus Swift (PG278Q)
pixel density is a lot smaller + in most game's you wont need MSAA or all that filtering anymore
(just bacause of that pixel density)

It is up to you, also this won't require that much more processing power of the GPU (if filtering is off)

Hope that helped out :)

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Everything about it makes it a perfect 1080p card. It runs games at 1080p ultra. There's nothing wrong with the card. It's a card for 1080p and 1440p I don't understand how you can deny its performance and value.

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I'd rather not derail this thread further, if you want to discuss more, we can PM or create a new thread.

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Don't a lot of 4K monitors have issues down-scaling to 1080p? Just curious because I've been trying to figure out what monitor to by myself for a while now.

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1440p is basically the inbetween res that will never catch on, like what HDREADY 720p was to FULLHD1080p did because 4k will be the next big thing. There are a lot of great 1080p monitors, few good 1440p monitors, unless you really want more screen real estate (for which I recommend going with a 16:10 screen or directly with 4K for 2d use and a 1080p screen for gaming), 1080p is best.

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not that I've seen.

4k monitors basically look like this.

1080-1080
1080-1080 <--- it's a perfect 2x2 upscale.

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But with a much higher DPI.

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144hz 1440 > 60hz UHD

1080p was a resolution made for televisions so there are a lot of panels around so PC's got the run-off from that tech, not ideal in any way.
Defending 1080p for PC gaming is being a chump.

If you can get a UHD with variable refresh rates per resolution (not fixed at 60hz) for a decent price that would be good.