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[GamerJ]

I saw the linus tech tips video about super-sampling and was wandering how much of an impact does this take on the graphics card?

[bgibbz]

13 minutes ago, GamerJ said:

I saw the linus tech tips video about super-sampling and was wandering how much of an impact does this take on the graphics card?

A fairly significant impact. You are essentially playing a game at a higher resolution. Supersampling aside, games will run much worse when plaing at 4k vs 1080p.

 

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Take a look at the above benchmarks, fallout 4 plays about twice as well at 1080p. Of course, you dont necessarily have to super sample to 4k. You can just super sample to the highest resolution you can reach while maintaining 60FPS

[GamerJ]

1 minute ago, bgibbz said:

A fairly significant impact. You are essentially playing a game at a higher resolution. Supersampling aside, games will run much worse when plaing at 4k vs 1080p.

 

Ok, so it depends on the resolution you scale to. So if I scale to quad HD on an HD monitor, the impact wouldn't be that much?

[bgibbz]

Just now, GamerJ said:

Ok, so it depends on the resolution you scale to. So if I scale to quad HD on an HD monitor, the impact wouldn't be that much?

No. If you scale to quad hd (4k) on a 1080p monitor, the performance imapact would be huge. As i said, disregard the output monitor. The only meaningful part of the equation is the scaled resolution. If you scale a game to 4k, it would be no different from playing a game at 4k, which is difficult for even the newest GPUs to do.

[GamerJ]

1 minute ago, bgibbz said:

No. If you scale to quad hd (4k) on a 1080p monitor, the performance imapact would be huge. As i said, disregard the output monitor. The only meaningful part of the equation is the scaled resolution. If you scale a game to 4k, it would be no different from playing a game at 4k, which is difficult for even the newest GPUs to do.

Oh. Ok thanks.