Hey, so I know you guys have had a good look at a few 4K monitors and I was wondering what 1080p looks like on a 4K monitor with up scaling and all? The reason I ask is that thousunds of games won't run at 4K and due to 1080p fitting into 4K it would be the best choice.
Also, what graphics cards would be best for 4K gaming at medium-ish settings (because max isn't even slightly possible).
Cheers.
I'd probably go with two R9 290xs. When you lower the detail settings at 4k, 780 Tis will be fairly comparable, but on high the R9s will beat them. And if you want to see some benchmarks comparing the two from Anandtech (although you will have to sift through them to just get the 4k benches): http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1057?vs=1073
1080p should look roughly the same upscaled to 4K as it would @ native 1080p on a similarly sized monitor (say, comparing a 1920x1080 27" to a 3840x2160 27") since it's the same aspect ratio with just 4 times the pixel density. You might notice SOME loss in clarity compared to a native 1080p monitor, but I doubt it would be much.
Oh cool! I would probably buy a Nvidia card though due to some of the features they have that i find more useful. Wouldn't a 780ti lack in the Vram perspective? I was wondering about SLI 780 6GB model?
Yeah, I've been looking around the internet and everyone seems to have mixed opinions (confusing) yet no one seems to have actually tested it. I'm hoping that you're right though.
I don't own one and haven't done any extensive testing, but I have seen a 1080p video on a 4K screen and it's nearly indistinguishable from 1080p on a 1920x1080 screen of the same size and panel type (obviously there are differences between panels etc, so it's tough to tell if the SLIGHT difference is down to the resolution or the panel). I'm sure you'll be happy with 1080p on a 4K monitor, assuming it's a decent monitor to begin with that is.
Ohk well that's good to know :) Thanks!
If you mean PhysX, G-Sync and CUDA by "features" then you need to rethink your priorities because all of those are either useless or have alternatives.
Really the R9 290Xs would be better.
Yes the VRAM may be an issue. Any benefit you'd get by having the 6GB on the 780s would be outweighed by their lower performance compared to an R9 290X or a 780 Ti.
Nope, nope and nope. Mainly just shadowplay and the fps counter and the easy nicer looking interface of the Geforce experience thing. I founf out on another thread that getting 2 780tis would be the best thing to do
There are other alternatives to that as well, I wouldn't rule out half the market for those reasons, especially considering AMD has higher Vram which is imporant for high resoloutions.
Yeah I know, but a 780TI is more powerful than an 290x and if I already have one then I may as well stick with Nvidia. According to benchmarks, the Vram doesn't make much difference, with games today.
It'll look like
Try fullscreen the image to really see the difference. Oh btw your desktop is gonna a lot of fun at 4k resolution. Be prepared to have the screen as close as possible. :D
I opened the picture of the girl from bioshock and shit, it looks no different! So you have a 4K screen and took a screenshot of the game running at 1080p?
Practically it's half the resolution so it's going to be noticeable. I think current 4k monitors are not worth the hassle. In 1-2 years maybe they're viable and performance will be up to the task.
It depends on what kind of panel you are going for. An IPS 4K panel with 1080p won't look too different from a native 1080p monitor, but a TN panel will appear slightly distorted, sort of like looking at 1366X768 on a 1080P monitor, but not quite as bad.
What has that to do with colors? The difference between TN and IPS are the colors and viewing angles. How has that anything to do with how the image will look outside of color and from what angle you are looking at the display?
TN and IPS are two completely different panel types that display things differently. Not only do they have different color reproduction and viewing angles, but also different response times. They also handle non-native resolutions differently, since the pixels on the screen are displayed differently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT_LCD#Types
I don't know what kind of monitor you have but try dropping it down into a non-native resolution and I am sure you will notice that things may not display quite as clearly,
It's actually a quarter of the resolution, half the vertical/horizontal resolution. Since the resolutions are perfectly divisible, that means that it will upscale quite well. You'll have exactly 4 pixels for every 1 pixel, so up scaling distortion should be fairly minimal (for reference, 720p isn't directly perfectly divisible to 1080p, 2.11 pixels for every 1 pixel, so distortion is more pronounced as you have to account for the overlap). So on similar sized monitors (with similar panels and all other things being equal), 1080p video should look pretty similar on a 4K monitor as it does on a native 1080p monitor.
I have a 1080p TN iiyama display. The colors are pretty good and so far I love it. When I play a game on 720p in fullscreen. It doesn't look that weird imo, ofcourse it looks a bit weird but that is because it is upscaled. But when I put my pc on 720p or 900p it does look really vague. Very interesting actualy. Is this with a IPS panel not then?
The effect is still there on an IPS panel, but it is less pronounced. I am not exactly sure why, I believe it has something to do with the pixel angle (this has nothing to do with viewing angle) I remember doing some research into this very thing a while back when the 4K craze and hype was up.
