Seeking Advice: Upgrading to 1440p - Will My Specs Handle High/Ultra Settings?

[Jacki69i]

 

Im currently running a setup with an :

 

- MSI RX5700XT

- R5 3600XT

- 16GB RAM 3200MHz

 

I'm considering making the leap from 1080p to 1440p for a more immersive gaming experience, particularly aiming for 60 fps at high/ultra settings.

 

Before taking the plunge, I'd love to hear from those who have similar specs or expertise in the field. Do you think my current setup can handle gaming at 1440p without a significant drop in performance? I'm a bit concerned about potential hiccups and want to ensure a smooth transition.

 

Any insights, personal experiences, or recommendations for optimizing performance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[BiotechBen]

10 minutes ago, Jacki69i said:

 

Im currently running a setup with an :

 

- MSI RX5700XT

- R5 3600XT

- 16GB RAM 3200MHz

 

I'm considering making the leap from 1080p to 1440p for a more immersive gaming experience, particularly aiming for 60 fps at high/ultra settings.

 

Before taking the plunge, I'd love to hear from those who have similar specs or expertise in the field. Do you think my current setup can handle gaming at 1440p without a significant drop in performance? I'm a bit concerned about potential hiccups and want to ensure a smooth transition.

 

Any insights, personal experiences, or recommendations for optimizing performance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Really depends on the games for ultra/high settings. Ultra on LoL is gonna be significantly less demanding than ultra on a AAA title like Cyberpunk or Forza.

[porina]

Depends on the age of the game but you might have to drop settings below high in newer more demanding games, or make use of FSR to bridge the gap.

 

You could test it out yourself using AMD VSR. See if you can set it to render close to 1440p and show on your 1080p display. At least it'll give an idea.

[podkall]

How's your current smoothness/fps?

 

It's not the best build for 1440p but to say it's the worst is also a lie.

 

Not sure if High/Ultra settings will be realistic, depends on the game really.

 

You gotta understand that 1440p is nearly double the pixel amount 1080p screen has, so the hardware will receive between 120%-180% demand from the game, again, depending on game and settings..

[Hinjima]

12 minutes ago, Jacki69i said:

 

Im currently running a setup with an :

 

- MSI RX5700XT

- R5 3600XT

- 16GB RAM 3200MHz

 

I'm considering making the leap from 1080p to 1440p for a more immersive gaming experience, particularly aiming for 60 fps at high/ultra settings.

 

Before taking the plunge, I'd love to hear from those who have similar specs or expertise in the field. Do you think my current setup can handle gaming at 1440p without a significant drop in performance? I'm a bit concerned about potential hiccups and want to ensure a smooth transition.

 

Any insights, personal experiences, or recommendations for optimizing performance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

It should do alright actually!   Remember that Ultra settings usually hit a lot harder on the performance compared to high without actually looking that much better.

Most if not all games are optimized for high settings while Ultra is just another step for top hardware.

Have a look through this video, all games ran at 1440p Ultra with same specs as you

 

[podkall]

I agree with @Hinjima and others, your PC should by my approximate understanding of 5700 XT's performance, get about consistent 60+fps in like story games, and then maybe in esports titles if you play any you'd have to maybe drop some settings if you have those on high, (looking at the benchmarks some games got consistent 90fps, that's good)

 

try it first, the card might surprise you how much fps it can crank at 1440p.

 

• Additionally, I completely forgot about this, you can run 1440p on your 1080p monitor already, the image will be 1080p, but the game demand and render and everything will be in 1440p. (if your monitor can run at 1440p resolution, which it should, it's just going to downscale it back to 1080p)

[PDifolco]

23 minutes ago, Jacki69i said:

 

Im currently running a setup with an :

 

- MSI RX5700XT

- R5 3600XT

- 16GB RAM 3200MHz

 

I'm considering making the leap from 1080p to 1440p for a more immersive gaming experience, particularly aiming for 60 fps at high/ultra settings.

 

Before taking the plunge, I'd love to hear from those who have similar specs or expertise in the field. Do you think my current setup can handle gaming at 1440p without a significant drop in performance? I'm a bit concerned about potential hiccups and want to ensure a smooth transition.

 

Any insights, personal experiences, or recommendations for optimizing performance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

What are your current performance at 1080p ? Cut them by 40% to have an idea of what to expect at 1440p

But imo you won't have good performance with any recent graphics intensive AAA game, mean like Cyberpunk, LoA, AW2 etc

BG3 may be ok-ish

 

[Holmes108]

I like using this chart to get an idea of relative GPU performance. No benchmarks are perfect, but I think it gives a decent idea. 

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

 

Scroll down to the first chart (which is 1080p Ultra) and click on the arrows to the 3rd image for 1440 Ultra.

 

Across their gaming test suite your GPU performed in between 50-60 fps (with an i9-13900K). The games they used were:

 

Borderlands 3 (DX12)

Far Cry 6 (DX12)

Flight Simulator  (DX12)

Forza Horizon 5 (DX12)H

Horizon Zero Dawn (DX12)

Red Dead Redemption 2 (Vulkan)

Total War Warhammer 3 (DX11)

Watch Dogs Legion (DX12)

 

So there are some demanding games there, and this is at "Ultra". You can also do better with "High", plus many games are far less demanding than say, Flight Sim.