Video Cards and resolution question

[kuroba]

Hello guys, 

I recently bought a LG 34u87b monitor that I found a great deal on.

Currently I have a GTX 970 that has little issues handling this resolution. However, as the new GTX series came out, I'm sitting here trying to figure out what to get as my next upgrade (waiting for partners cards) to get the most of I can from this monitor. So here is the question:

In almost every review the setting for both the new gtx cards have been done in 1080, 1440 and 4k. While I'm clear on the 1080 and 4k resolutions, the 1440 confuse me to no end as I'll take it that they are almost always talking about 2560x1440 but how about 3440x1440???

how does 3440x1440 affect the tests and how hard it is to run such resolution compare to 4k?

 

Thanks for your time

[DioOmicida]

Probably slightly less than 4k and slightly more than 2k. 

[Railgun]

basically

1080p = 1920 x 1080

1440p (ALSO known as 2k) is 2560 x 1440

4k is 3840 x 2160

 

higher resolutions require more powerful cards to run games on

[LabRat]

link the monitor......... i come up with a 55" 1080p tv.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Well, consider that 4K (well, 3840 x 2160, not technically 4K) is around 8.3 million pixels. 3440 x 1440 is about 5 million. Not too much over half of 4K  and quite a bit more than 1440p (2560 x 1440 = 3.7 million). 

 

Basically, the performance at 2560 x 1440 is going to be (theoretically) about 20% better/easier than 3440 x 1440 and 4K is going to be about 80% worse/harder. 

[GlassBomb]

2 minutes ago, Railgun said:

basically

1080p = 1920 x 1080

1440p (ALSO known as 2k) is 2560 x 1440

4k is 3840 x 2160

 

higher resolutions require more powerful cards to run games on

I don't know why 2560x1440 started being known as "2k", when 1920x1080 is the one that should be called 2k, since it's half the height/width of 4k.

 

2560x1440 should really be called 2.5k, if anything.

 

But back to the question. 3440x1440 will be just in between a 1440p and 4k monitor in terms of how hard it will to drive all those pixels.

[Bananasplit_00]

think 3K ish for preformance, so between 2K and 4K

[kuroba]

20 minutes ago, LabRat said:

link the monitor......... i come up with a 55" 1080p tv.

http://www.lg.com/us/commercial/21-9-ultrawide-monitors/lg-34UC87M-B

[Railgun]

21 minutes ago, GlassBomb said:

I don't know why 2560x1440 started being known as "2k", when 1920x1080 is the one that should be called 2k, since it's half the height/width of 4k.

 

2560x1440 should really be called 2.5k, if anything.

 

But back to the question. 3440x1440 will be just in between a 1440p and 4k monitor in terms of how hard it will to drive all those pixels.

yeah I've always wondered that