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Random Question: What Demands more Power?

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In that case they're pretty similar. The thing with 120fps is that it can be held back by cpu (for example) when 60 on a 1440p wouldn't be.

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What demands more power? Playing at 1440P or playing the same game at 120Hz?

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You mean 1080p 120Hz right? If so I would say 1440p.

 

The 7xx and the AMD 79xx cards can run most modern games 1080p maxed out with decent frame rates, about 80-100. However 1440p is too demanding especially when you put on AA.

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1440p, you have power more more pixels at once.

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Yeah, 120Hz at 1080p guys. I just marked nite's answer as best solved so you guys would know...

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2560*1440= 3,686,400 pixels*60fps=   221,184,000

1920*1080= 2,073,600 pixels*120fps= 248,832,000

 

1080p at 120hz requires more gpu processing power. But not by much. Just shows you how many more pixels (56.25%) a 1440p screen has over a 1080p

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120Hz easily. 2560X1440 is easy to get because you just set the resolution settings but if you have 120Hz monitor then your card and game could never reach it. That is why I don't see the point in getting a 120Hz monitor as 60Hz is sometimes hard to achieve (if you play the games I do, they are all really poorly optimized).

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This question makes little sense to me.

 

120hz is not any more taxing than 60hz except in the gpu's idle state, where it may incur a high idle base clock  (although so does a higher res). This applies to nvidia cards (6xx and up I have tested).

 

120hz just lifts the 60hz restriction from the GPU. It is no longer 'held back'.

 

 

Now if you mean playing at 1440p or playing at 120FPS then that depends on lots of factors, including game, gpu grunt, gpu memory speed + bandwidth, cpu performance etc.

 

However, the benefit of 120hz monitors is in the pixel response time and the ability to use the lightboost strobing hack, not in the availability of 120FPS.

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I guess I'll reword the question.

What will demand more from your gpu? Playing at 60 fps on 1440p, or playing the same game at 120 fps on a 1080p monitor?

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