1080p or 1440p?

[kodokuj]

All I do is game, video edit 1080p60 videos, and draw in Photoshop. I currently have a GTX 970, an old Dell 1080p that's very color inaccurate, and plan to get a 4070 later this year. Should I get 1080p or is 1440p worth the jump up?

[Poinkachu]

6 minutes ago, kodokuj said:

All I do is game, video edit 1080p60 videos, and draw in Photoshop. I currently have a GTX 970, an old Dell 1080p that's very color inaccurate, and plan to get a 4070 later this year. Should I get 1080p or is 1440p worth the jump up?

For non competitive game 1440p is nice, it gives you more screen real estate in video editing & photoshop too.

I used 1080 for games and photoshop for years, now that I use 1440.... I don't think it'll be easy for me to go back to 1080

[saintlouisbagels]

Absolutely jump to 1440p. You won't be able to go back - it's 77% more pixels but the UI is still "large" enough to keep everything at 100% scaling.

 

Genuinely envy people who are capable of being productive on a 1080p screen. I bought my first 1440p screen back in 2015 when it was still minimum like $700 for a reputable brand and not a B-grade monitor from a Chinese OEM.

[WereCat]

Just now, saintlouisbagels said:

Genuinely envy people who are capable of being productive on a 1080p screen.

1200p is doable but 1080p is just too narrow once you get used to bigger vertical space.

[kodokuj]

Just now, saintlouisbagels said:

Absolutely jump to 1440p. You won't be able to go back - it's 77% more pixels but the UI is still "large" enough to keep everything at 100% scaling.

 

Genuinely envy people who are capable of being productive on a 1080p screen.

It's currently just a "deal with what I got" sort of thing. I started out on a single 1366x768 screen back in 2017, which insane to think about using that nowadays.

[Poinkachu]

2 minutes ago, kodokuj said:

It's currently just a "deal with what I got" sort of thing. I started out on a single 1366x768 screen back in 2017, which insane to think about using that nowadays.

Eh , I still use my ol cheap 1366x768 screen for random stuffs.

Like connecting my samsung phone to it to view a repair tutorial / reference pic when soldering / repairing stuffs

[saintlouisbagels]

39 minutes ago, Poinkachu said:

Eh , I still use my ol cheap 1366x768 screen for random stuffs.

Like connecting my samsung phone to it to view a repair tutorial / reference pic when soldering / repairing stuffs

They gave us Lenovo ThinkPads during my Uni years (2011-2015) with a 1366x768 screen and it was awful trying to juggle more than 1 window for assignments. Needless to say, I would procrastinate a lot of work until I could find time to sit down at my desk with my 25" 1920x1200 monitor  

[Poinkachu]

4 minutes ago, saintlouisbagels said:

They gave us Lenovo ThinkPads during my Uni years (2011-2015) with a 1366x768 screen and it was awful trying to juggle more than 1 Window for assignments. Needless to say, I would procrastinate a lot of work until I could find time to sit down at my desk with my 25" 1920x1200 monitor  

Ah yea, on laptop display it's a nightmare. Bought a cheap smol laptop with that resol once, regret lasts to this day.

My 768 monitor is 18.5" or 20", forgot and cba to measure it right now, back then I couldn't care less about color, and too dumb still about resol.

[Blasty Blosty]

I just recently upgraded to 1440p from 1080p, and holy moly its so much better

 

Text is super crisp and games look phenomenal

[venomtail]

I've got a 1080p 27'' TN. Whilst programming and video editing is doable I wouldn't recommend it as there's not always a compromise but several at once. You could try getting more screens but I prefer to keep everything on one screen with just a way higher resolution. 1440p minimum. Definitely upgrade. I am myself leaving 1080p some day as well as I'm aiming for a 4k but living costs are so insane I can't ever seem to save up.

[Doobeedoo]

In your case 1440p yeah.

[SkilledRebuilds]

1440p Vote, when in doubt or need more fps/performance use DLSS/FSR at Quality or Balanced or NIS in the control panel for Nvidia cards (Nvidia Image scaling if the other two are not available)

Can still look a lot better than 1080p Native with TAA Antialiasing, as FSR2 or DLSS will override TAA with their own algorithm for a cleaner image, even at 1080p upscaled (typically)