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with gaming Hardware becoming as powerful as it has we've seen lots of

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players asking about the feasibility of gaming Beyond 4K resolutions whether

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it's on an ultrawide monitor that has more pixels than a standard 4K display

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or something like an 8K monitor that's the equivalent of mashing four 4K

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displays together but just because we can run games at absurdly high

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resolutions now does it mean that we should or are there times where it's

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pointless or even counterproductive a good way to start answering this fairly

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leading question is to Simply consider how far you're usually sitting from your

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screen generally speaking higher resolutions make sense the closer you're

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sitting to a display and the larger that display is as the farther back you get

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and the smaller the display becomes the less you're able to discern individual

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pixels that make sense in fact most people can't even see the individual

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pixels of a typical 27 in or even a 32in

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4K 3840 X 2160 monitor when they're

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sitting approximately 2 ft away from it meaning that even with a typical desk

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setup where you're fairly close to your monitor going past 4K doesn't have much

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of a point but keep this exception in mind even at that same distance you'd be

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gaming Beyond what's often called 4K if

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you're running an ultrawide that has the same 2160 vertical pixels as a standard

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4K screen since you'll obviously be pushing some extra horizontal pixels if

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you're using the display at its native resolution which is nice as that

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ultrawide aspect ratio can help games feel more immersive and increase your

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field of view just remember if you're considering something like a 5120 by

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2160 display check available benchmarks

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to see what kind of performance you can expect with the graphics card you have

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or the one you want to buy but what if you're more of a couch gamer using a

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much larger TV to play your games the same distance from screen logic applies

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as you won't be able to pick out individual pixels on a 60 5 in 4K TV if

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you're sitting just a little more than 4T away in fact we did an episode on our

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sister Channel Linus Tech tips where we had some of our team members try to see

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if they could tell the difference between a 4K and an 8K game feed on an

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88 in 8k display spoiler alert they

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couldn't now does all this mean there's just no point in running your games

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Beyond 4K if you're not sitting super close to a large display but we'll tell

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can make sense to aim for a resolution Beyond 4K is when you're using dlss or

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FSR smart upscaling techniques that render the game at a lower resolution

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and then upscale them to a higher resolution this upscaling makes it far

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easier for your GPU to Output an 8K signal in fact some users have reported

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that the image quality in certain games can be better when the game is set to 8K

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dlss in instead of 4K native even on a

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typical 4K display but remember that with these upscaling techniques your

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visual quality mileage may vary depending on the game and on the subject

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of visual quality it's important to remember that resolution is not a

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synonym for visual quality having more

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pixels on your screen comes at the cost of having nicer looking pixels in other

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words if you're already running your games at 4K you're much more likely to

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have a more pleasing gaming experience by using any extra GPU power to turn up

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other visual settings such as texture quality and Shadow detail assuming doing

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so won't bring down your frame rate too much even if you don't touch your other

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visual settings at all you're also far more likely to have a better experience

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by enjoying the much higher frame rates you'll be getting at 4K rather than

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native 8K in fact High frame rates and

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more consistent frame times which cut down on stuttering are often emphasized

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more these days as vital to a high fidelity gaming experience as many games

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have hit a point of diminishing returns when it comes to visual quality along

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with the aforementioned improvements in upscaling that make the actual

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resolution less important and while it is true that running your games at

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higher resolutions can help cut down on the aliasing or jaggies you see on Sharp

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edges you can always just turn on multi- Sample anti-aliasing to get the same

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effect which increases the resolution only on edges this is much less comput

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Ally expensive than rendering the whole scene in 8k or a similarly ultra high

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resolution so you can give 8K with dlss

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or FSR a try if you'd like but we recommend not running out to buy an

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expensive 8K screen or upgrade your graphics card just so you can try to run

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8K natively heck even an RTX 490 has to

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work hard to run certain titles even at Native 4K when you crank the quality up

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in any event there just isn't enough of a difference for most people and

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although the higher numbers might sound tantalizing you really shouldn't be

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suffering from fomo thanks for watching this video if you liked it check out our

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other video on dss3 and how it uses AI

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to upscale your games what is it doing in there is it alive we don't know