Upgrade from 1440p to 4K

JMSOG · August 24, 2019

Strangely, I cannot find a lot of opinions about this precise question. Or maybe I suck at googling.

I currently have a decent 1440p monitor. I'm considering making my final big tech purchase for the next several years a decent 4k monitor.

So, for those of you who've upgraded from 1440p to 4K in the past...how noticeable is it? can you really appreciate the difference?

Keep in mind: I know about the differences in refresh rate. I know how much more horsepower it takes to run something at 4k vs 1440p. I know about response time, I know the size of the monitor matters, I know ultrawide exists, ETC. I'm asking about, in a vacuum, how noticeable, appreciable, and useful the upgrade in resolution BY ITSELF is.

Thoughts?

xhackforeverxdx · August 24, 2019

I use a acer nitro xv273kp 4k 144Hz i am pretty close to it so for me its a big diff between that and 1440p especially text looks alot sharper smaller icons look better etc the hole image just looks idk cleaner cause its almost impossible to see any pixel even on text etc

jones177 · August 24, 2019

At 4k you will be doing 60hz gaming. If that is ok with you go for it.

Also your Titan X must perform at least as good as a 1080 ti to play modern AAA games with settings that will look better than 1440 ultra. This is because the textures in most games don't benefit from 4k since they were designed for 1080p.

My 4k gaming computer is to play my modded games that use higher resolution textures than vanilla. For vanilla games I use a 3840 X 1600 ultra wide monitor. That resolution is much easier to run than 4k but does not have blurry text like 1440.

PaulTechno · August 24, 2019

I noticed games are sharper and that's with a bigger monitor at 32" 4k upgrade from my 27" 1440 monitor. The ppi stats indicate that I noticed more sharpness & detail. The ppi is close to 111 for a 27" 1440 x 2560 monitor and the ppi is close to 140 for a 32" 4k (2160 x 3840) monitor.

Never tried a 27" 4k monitor so I imagine the detail would be even more noticeable than on my 32" 4k.

Ok and for the big screen effect if anyone is interested. On another PC system I play games on a 40" 4k (2160 x 3840) tv. The detail is about the same as on the 27" 1440 monitor. And the ppi happens to be close to the same at 110. And I can live with no increase in detail on the big screen because the big size is more immersive. And I'm not dwelling on the immersion of bigger screens because I do realize you already know about size affecting immersion and other things.