How does 1080p gaming look on 4k screen?

[ANGRY MALICE]

Greetings,

Since I want a new thing in my life, the idea is to upgrade my current 24' 1080p 144hz panel to 28' 4k 144hz panel. I am looking at Gigabyte M28U. And use the current monitor as secondary when needed.
Thing is: right now I only have GTX 1070ti. I am thinking about upgrading to something like RTX 4070/80. But got to live and see when they will even come out and how much they will cost and what my financial situation will be, etc.
Either way, is there a big visual difference between running a game @1080p on a 1080p monitor vs running the game @1080p on 4k screen? I'd imagine they would be a bit blurrier because the screen would be larger.
So running games like that would be a temporary thing.

I have also looked at 1440p screens, but the thing is, I need to upgrade my GPU anyway and I figured if I bought a high end card, 4k would be nicer to have.

I hope you understand what I mean.

Thanks!

Oh, and if you're curious, the rest of my PC is:
11600k
2x16 RAM

[Jamebonds1]

Автор сообщения: ANGRY MALICE

You probably are not sitting right next to a 50+ inch screen and using it as a monitor, no?
There is a difference between a monitor and a tv.

No. 8 ft away from my TV.

[SlowClick]

I have a Dell 24" P2415Q 4K monitor but because it's aimed at photography it has a 60FPS max refresh rate. But because of my low end GPU I play most games at 1080p set to full screen, and it looks fine to me.
Snowrunner, Half-Life2, Metro Exodus all look fine to me. 4k looks a bit sharper, but the fps is woeful!

[r.linder]

Автор сообщения: SlowClick

I have a Dell 24" P2415Q 4K monitor but because it's aimed at photography it has a 60FPS max refresh rate. But because of my low end GPU I play most games at 1080p set to full screen, and it looks fine to me.
Snowrunner, Half-Life2, Metro Exodus all look fine to me. 4k looks a bit sharper, but the fps is woeful!

24 inches is very common for 1080p monitors, more recently they've come up with 27+ inch 1080p monitors which are just terrible in comparison to 27" 1440p.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Below 30 inches is not very good for 4K. While images when viewed at proper native res are very crisp; text for various apps and even the OS as a whole will be very tiny and hard to read. Increasing DPI Scaling would be a must when viewing native 4K on such smaller screens such as ones below 30 inches or so. Problem is that you can't apply DPI scaling to everything and many games don't have such a setting to help change the sizing of in-game text.

1080p tends to scale very well on 4K screens though if needing to do that.

[ANGRY MALICE]

Yeah, I am looking at 32inch screens atm. Still need to wait till payday anyway, so I have some time to do more research.

[Jamebonds1]

Автор сообщения: r.linder

Автор сообщения: SlowClick

I have a Dell 24" P2415Q 4K monitor but because it's aimed at photography it has a 60FPS max refresh rate. But because of my low end GPU I play most games at 1080p set to full screen, and it looks fine to me.
Snowrunner, Half-Life2, Metro Exodus all look fine to me. 4k looks a bit sharper, but the fps is woeful!

24 inches is very common for 1080p monitors, more recently they've come up with 27+ inch 1080p monitors which are just terrible in comparison to 27" 1440p.

24 inch 1080p for my work isn't bad. It help me reading better. I have 3 sometime 4 monitors.

[r.linder]

Автор сообщения: Jamebonds1

Автор сообщения: r.linder

24 inches is very common for 1080p monitors, more recently they've come up with 27+ inch 1080p monitors which are just terrible in comparison to 27" 1440p.

24 inch 1080p for my work isn't bad. It help me reading better. I have 3 sometime 4 monitors.

ya, 1080p 24" is a little bit less crisp than 1440p 27", it's not bad at all. Used to play 1080p 24" 240Hz before moving to 1440

[Pocahawtness]

I would not buy 4K just for games. I did and I somewhat regret it. The problem is that 4K is still difficult to run with any graphics card and games are forever coming out that demand more and more power. You can use NVIDIA Scaling and it works very well, but for the moment I would honestly save money and buy 1440P.

[Agent]

I'd scratch the idea of 4k unless you want to pay for high-end GPU's all the time. 1440p is a good middle ground.

[Jamebonds1]

Автор сообщения: ☠️Pocahawtness

I would not buy 4K just for games. I did and I somewhat regret it. The problem is that 4K is still difficult to run with any graphics card and games are forever coming out that demand more and more power. You can use NVIDIA Scaling and it works very well, but for the moment I would honestly save money and buy 1440P.

4K monitor doesn't restricted games to 4K resolutions. So you can just adjust game resolutions to find correct one.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

1080p and 720p will look fine because the pixels will double properly in an integer fashion.

If you tried 1440p it would look blurred and stretched because integer scaling wouldn't be correct.

[Jamebonds1]

Автор сообщения: Hardʬare Hero

1080p and 720p will look fine because the pixels will double properly in an integer fashion.

If you tried 1440p it would look blurred and stretched because integer scaling wouldn't be correct.

Depend on sit length and screen size.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

This much better to do and I highly suggest it. Instead of using a single 4K Display. Use the 4K Display on systems that can't handle 4K Gaming well enough, as a Secondary Display. Then use a Primary Display that has a native Screen Res that all your games can handle such as 1080p or 1440p; at 144Hz or higher. Just know that using a Display with Refresh above 144 would greatly impact overall CPU usage and might do well on a kid range system, such as ones with Ryzen 5 series or i5 class of CPUs or lower. 4K screens are helpful as a secondary since it can Display 4X as many things (your various app windows and such at one time) compared to 1080p.

[MonkehMaster]

Автор сообщения: Hardʬare Hero

1080p and 720p will look fine because the pixels will double properly in an integer fashion.

If you tried 1440p it would look blurred and stretched because integer scaling wouldn't be correct.

720p looks horrible on any monitor/tv, wouldnt even suggest that res lol.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Автор сообщения: MonkehMaster

Автор сообщения: Hardʬare Hero

1080p and 720p will look fine because the pixels will double properly in an integer fashion.

If you tried 1440p it would look blurred and stretched because integer scaling wouldn't be correct.

720p looks horrible on any monitor/tv, wouldnt even suggest that res lol.

That means nothing for scaling which is what this topic is about. What you say is opinion and nothing more.