with gaming Hardware becoming as powerful as it has we've seen lots of
players asking about the feasibility of gaming Beyond 4K resolutions whether
it's on an ultrawide monitor that has more pixels than a standard 4K display
or something like an 8K monitor that's the equivalent of mashing four 4K
displays together but just because we can run games at absurdly high
resolutions now does it mean that we should or are there times where it's
pointless or even counterproductive a good way to start answering this fairly
leading question is to Simply consider how far you're usually sitting from your
screen generally speaking higher resolutions make sense the closer you're
sitting to a display and the larger that display is as the farther back you get
and the smaller the display becomes the less you're able to discern individual
pixels that make sense in fact most people can't even see the individual
pixels of a typical 27 in or even a 32in
4K 3840 X 2160 monitor when they're
sitting approximately 2 ft away from it meaning that even with a typical desk
setup where you're fairly close to your monitor going past 4K doesn't have much
of a point but keep this exception in mind even at that same distance you'd be
gaming Beyond what's often called 4K if
you're running an ultrawide that has the same 2160 vertical pixels as a standard
4K screen since you'll obviously be pushing some extra horizontal pixels if
you're using the display at its native resolution which is nice as that
ultrawide aspect ratio can help games feel more immersive and increase your
field of view just remember if you're considering something like a 5120 by
2160 display check available benchmarks
to see what kind of performance you can expect with the graphics card you have
or the one you want to buy but what if you're more of a couch gamer using a
much larger TV to play your games the same distance from screen logic applies
as you won't be able to pick out individual pixels on a 60 5 in 4K TV if
you're sitting just a little more than 4T away in fact we did an episode on our
sister Channel Linus Tech tips where we had some of our team members try to see
if they could tell the difference between a 4K and an 8K game feed on an
88 in 8k display spoiler alert they
couldn't now does all this mean there's just no point in running your games
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
FSR smart upscaling techniques that render the game at a lower resolution
and then upscale them to a higher resolution this upscaling makes it far
easier for your GPU to Output an 8K signal in fact some users have reported
that the image quality in certain games can be better when the game is set to 8K
dlss in instead of 4K native even on a
typical 4K display but remember that with these upscaling techniques your
visual quality mileage may vary depending on the game and on the subject
of visual quality it's important to remember that resolution is not a
synonym for visual quality having more
pixels on your screen comes at the cost of having nicer looking pixels in other
words if you're already running your games at 4K you're much more likely to
have a more pleasing gaming experience by using any extra GPU power to turn up
other visual settings such as texture quality and Shadow detail assuming doing
so won't bring down your frame rate too much even if you don't touch your other
visual settings at all you're also far more likely to have a better experience
by enjoying the much higher frame rates you'll be getting at 4K rather than
native 8K in fact High frame rates and
more consistent frame times which cut down on stuttering are often emphasized
more these days as vital to a high fidelity gaming experience as many games
have hit a point of diminishing returns when it comes to visual quality along
with the aforementioned improvements in upscaling that make the actual
resolution less important and while it is true that running your games at
higher resolutions can help cut down on the aliasing or jaggies you see on Sharp
edges you can always just turn on multi- Sample anti-aliasing to get the same
effect which increases the resolution only on edges this is much less comput
Ally expensive than rendering the whole scene in 8k or a similarly ultra high
resolution so you can give 8K with dlss
or FSR a try if you'd like but we recommend not running out to buy an
expensive 8K screen or upgrade your graphics card just so you can try to run
8K natively heck even an RTX 490 has to
work hard to run certain titles even at Native 4K when you crank the quality up
in any event there just isn't enough of a difference for most people and
although the higher numbers might sound tantalizing you really shouldn't be
suffering from fomo thanks for watching this video if you liked it check out our
other video on dss3 and how it uses AI
to upscale your games what is it doing in there is it alive we don't know