What kind of performance hit will I experience on a ultrawide?

[FineVisionz]

Hello,

I currently have a 16:9 1440p monitor and I'm looking at getting the aw3423dw 21:9 monitor.

What kind of a performance hit can I expect now that I will have to power the extra horizontal pixles?

 

To keep things simple lets say that I get 100fps on my 16:9 1440p monitor, what would you estimate the frames i'd get on a 21:9 1440p monitor?

 

Is it as simple as doing some basic math to just get an idea?  The ultawide has about 34% more pixels than the 16:9.  So I could expect ~66fps (if i was getting 100fps before)?

Or am I just overthinking it, haha.

 

Thanks!

[Glenwing]

It has 1.34 times as many pixels, so there will be 1.34 times as much GPU load per frame. Therefore you can expect 1/1.34 times as many frames (75% as many) if you are GPU-limited.

[Dedayog]

54 minutes ago, FineVisionz said:

Hello,

I currently have a 16:9 1440p monitor and I'm looking at getting the aw3423dw 21:9 monitor.

What kind of a performance hit can I expect now that I will have to power the extra horizontal pixles?

 

To keep things simple lets say that I get 100fps on my 16:9 1440p monitor, what would you estimate the frames i'd get on a 21:9 1440p monitor?

 

Is it as simple as doing some basic math to just get an idea?  The ultawide has about 34% more pixels than the 16:9.  So I could expect ~66fps (if i was getting 100fps before)?

Or am I just overthinking it, haha.

 

Thanks!

You going to run a 1440p UW on that 970?

[FineVisionz]

10 hours ago, Dedayog said:

You going to run a 1440p UW on that 970?

No, I really need to update that.  I currently have a Titan X Pascal, but I plan to upgrade to 7900xtx on December 13... hopefully.... lol

[Gamer Schnitzel]

I had ultrawide for a year and then just gave it to my little brother and went back to my 16:9 monitor. You literally look at those pixels on the side and your monitor will only look good on Instagram. I will never ever buy an ultrawide ever again no matter how badly I want an OLED monitor. LG is releasing a 16:9 1440p OLED monitor this year so I rather wait for that. If you want to see your game performance on ultrawide just look at 4k benchmarks as they are nearly the same amount of pixels.

[BuzzingBee]

5 hours ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

If you want to see your game performance on ultrawide just look at 4k benchmarks as they are nearly the same amount of pixels.

Not even close, 4k has 1.67x more pixels than 3440x1440. But I noticed I'm not getting 1.67x performance loss in FPS as it could vary between games. When I compared with Borderlands 3 it was more like 1.4-1.45x drop.