How is 1080p gaming on a 1440p monitor?

[Jaquavius]

Let's say I have a 1080p 27" monitor and a 27" 1440p monitor. Since the aspect ratios are the same:

 

Will the image look exactly the same?

 

EDIT: I mean will 1080p gaming look the same on a 1440p monitor vs. a 1080p monitor.

[Paralectic]

Yes they will, they both are a resolution in the native 16:9 ratio category.

[ShadowCaptain]

Let's say I have a 1080p 27" monitor and a 27" 1440p monitor. Since the aspect ratios are the same:

 

Will the image look exactly the same?

 

pretty much, it is slightly worse than 1080p on a 27" 1080p screen (like the tiniest bit blurry) but for gaming running a game in 1080p on a 1440p monitor it really looks the same.

 

EDIT: Wait do you mean 2 different screens? a 27" 1440 screen is a lot sharper than a 27" 1080p screen

[Anthony10]

PPI is different, so off course the 1440p will (not sure) be noticeably sharper than the 1080p, but I guess scaling will be fine?

[Ciccioo]

Let's say I have a 1080p 27" monitor and a 27" 1440p monitor. Since the aspect ratios are the same:

 

Will the image look exactly the same?

i seriously doubt so, it will probably look like ass

i know that 720p on 1080p is ugly

[helping]

1080p will look noticeably worse if you sit close to your monitor. 1080p is typically only valid up to 24" PPI begins to get too low after that. 

[flibberdipper]

For the most part, yes.

[othertomperson]

Does it not look really bad because 1080 doesn't go into 1440 an integer number of times? I've heard 720p looks a lot better on a 1440p monitor than 1080p does and at face value it makes sense.

[hawaiims]

I don't know what the first couple of people talking about 1080p on a 1440p monitor are smoking because I can definitely tell you that 1080p on 1440p will look terrible because it's not a resolution that is half or double of 1440p. 

 

720p is half the horizontal and vertical pixels of 1440p so it will actually look better than 1080p on a 1440p monitor

[bartekxx12]

Does it not look really bad because 1080 doesn't go into 1440 an integer number of times? I've heard 720p looks a lot better on a 1440p monitor than 1080p does and at face value it makes sense.

Yep, I have a 1440p monitor and high bitrate 720 films can often look as good if not better than 1080p. 

1080p games on it don't look very good, definitely worse than 1080p on a 1080p monitor so I always just play at the native 2560x1440 which looks amazing. I've never tried gaming in 720p but that is an exact integer multiple so that should look like 720p on a 720 monitor. 

The problem is that while they are the same aspect ratio, if you do 2560/1920 you get 1.333... pixels. So every pixel from a 1080p image would become 1.333... pixels on a 1440p monitor... 

 

[Jaquavius]

Yes they will, they both are a resolution in the native 16:9 ratio category.

 

Are you sure? Everyone seems to say different things... One guy said 1080p won't look as good on 1440p monitor as it will on a 1080p monitor because even though aspect rations are the same, 1080p does not go an even amount of times into 1440p.

[Peopie]

I think the word you are looking for is interpolation.

I think each monitor has its own way of dealing with it, and some monitors can handle upscaling a 1080p image to 1440p better than others. I've read that the asus PB278Q is pretty good at displaying 1080p images on its 1440p screen.

[Tr3vor]

It will not scale well if the higher resolution isn't a multiple horizontally and vertically as the game/video's resolution.

[Tam3n]

1080p on 1440p is not too bad.