Ultrawide monitor- do i have enough graphics horsepower?

[dmtben]

Hi,

 

I am looking at getting one of LGs 29UM65 ultrawide 2160 x 1080p monitors and was wondering whether or not I would still be able to run games at decent settings using my GTX 960 SSC from EVGA?

Thanks for any help

[Wauthar]

Might be cutting it close, I don't think the results would be satisfactory. 

[misthosg]

Hi,

 

I am looking at getting one of LGs 29UM65 ultrawide 2160 x 1080p monitors and was wondering whether or not I would still be able to run games at decent settings using my GTX 960 SSC from EVGA?

Thanks for any help

You will be fine

[Indus Monk]

Nope not enuff power

[jonathanwu607]

Ultrawide or not does not affect the required performance. it's the resolution that counts.

2160x1080 is just slightly higher than FHD, which i believe a 960 should be enough for most cases. (unless you're expecting to max out all the settings)

 

Hi,

 

I am looking at getting one of LGs 29UM65 ultrawide 2160 x 1080p monitors and was wondering whether or not I would still be able to run games at decent settings using my GTX 960 SSC from EVGA?

Thanks for any help

[Br3tt96]

You'll be fine for browsing and doing stuff on the desktop, but gaming will not be that great.

[dmtben]

Im running all my games at a solid 60fps on decent settings on my 16:9 1080p monitor, I was just wondering if the extra horizontal pixels would have too much of an impact?

[misthosg]

Im running all my games at a solid 60fps on decent settings on my 16:9 1080p monitor, I was just wondering if the extra horizontal pixels would have too much of an impact?

Gaming will be fine. It is not much of an increase in pixel amount, so performance in games will be less than FHD, but it would still be a solid 60 fps (unless maxed settings)

[OAcesync]

Hi,

 

I am looking at getting one of LGs 29UM65 ultrawide 2160 x 1080p monitors and was wondering whether or not I would still be able to run games at decent settings using my GTX 960 SSC from EVGA?

Thanks for any help

Wouldn't really recommend it as you may not be getting satisfactory results with a 960. 960 is designed for 1080p it will struggle a bit on 2K

[NeatSquidYT]

Ultrawide or not does not affect the required performance

It does if you want to run native games

[misthosg]

Wouldn't really recommend it as you may not be getting satisfactory results with a 960. 960 is designed for 1080p it will struggle a bit on 2K

It is not 2k, it is 2560x1080p. 2k (1440p) is 1.3 times the amount of pixels as 1080p 21:9. He will be fine playing games (not maxed) as it is not much of a pixel increase from 16:9

[Aniallation]

I am looking at getting one of LGs 29UM65 ultrawide 2160 x 1080p monitors and was wondering whether or not I would still be able to run games at decent settings using my GTX 960 SSC from EVGA?

Thanks for any help

You'll be fine for browsing and doing stuff on the desktop, but gaming will not be that great.

Gaming will be fine. It is not much of an increase in pixel amount, so performance in games will be less than FHD, but it would still be a solid 60 fps (unless maxed settings)

 

What is "gaming" though... A lot of people I know go on their powerful af PCs and play nothing but stuff like League and CS:GO

[don_svetlio]

Let's do some math shall we?
1920x1080 = 2 073 600 pixels

2160x1080 = 2 332 800 pixels

That's about 12% more so you can expect games to perform about 10% worse (assuming you do not exceed the 2 Gig frame buffer)
So that means that a game where you were getting 50fps before will now yield results along the lines of 44fps (give or take)

 

[OAcesync]

It is not 2k, it is 2560x1080p. 2k (1440p) is 1.3 times the amount of pixels as 1080p 21:9. He will be fine playing games (not maxed) as it is not much of a pixel increase from 16:9

Oh if it's just downscaled 2K then it will be fine if doesn't do ultra

[Br3tt96]

What is "gaming" though... A lot of people I know go on their powerful af PCs and play nothing but stuff like League and CS:GO

Good point. I don't play cs:go or league. I never really think about that since those games aren't my cup of tea

[Aniallation]

Good point. I don't play cs:go or league. I never really think about that since those games aren't my cup of tea

Yeah, a good friend of mine has a 3930K and 780 SLI, all he does on his PC is play League, CS:GO and Osu

[Br3tt96]

Yeah, a good friend of mine has a 3930K and 780 SLI, all he does on his PC is play League, CS:GO and Osu

I hope he's atleast at 4k?

[Aniallation]

I hope he's atleast at 4k?

1440

[Br3tt96]

1440

That's still better. If he was at 1080p I'd be a bit annoyed.

[Guest Strangerbob]

Youll be totally fine.

 

But please dont get that one. Get the lg 29um67. Its the same in every way, except its 75hz and has freesync.

 

I know you wont use freesync, but you still get a native 75hz IPS panel instead of 60hz one.

[jonathanwu607]

It does if you want to run native games

apologies if any confusion caused. what i meant was it's the extra pixels that will affect performance, not by the monitor being wider.

(so say if there were two monitor with same res but one being extrawide, the result would still be the same)

 

but i guess extrawide monitors usually have a little more in horizontal pixels.... so my bad... 

[NeatSquidYT]

apologies if any confusion caused. what i meant was it's the extra pixels that will affect performance, not by the monitor being wider.

(so say if there were two monitor with same res but one being extrawide, the result would still be the same)

 

but i guess extrawide monitors usually have a little more in horizontal pixels.... so my bad... 

I do see that, but ultrawide usually means more pixels. 16:9 forced on 21:9 would look horrible