Is 4k worth it?

[TheEvanFactor]

Is 4k worth the price?

I know it is probably very future proof, 

but it is also expensive and I have heard that lower resolutions will cause blurriness.

 

I just want to know others thoughts.

 

[r2724r16]

If you're just using your PC for Facebook and web surfing, then a 4K monitor is not worth it but if you're doing any kind of serious work on your monitor like content creation, then it's probably worth it. 

[Shimejii]

No 4k is not worth it for most people.

[Christophe Corazza]

If you’re planning for the future, buying a 4K monitor now is a very good idea, as long as you can also get a GPU that can run games in at least 2K. If you’re prioritizing performance, a 1080p monitor is still a better choice.

[PlayStation 2]

Honestly, even for straight gaming, 1440p is a more practical and much cheaper option.

However, if you're doing things that could easily make use of the 2160p real estate, like graphics editing, video editing and other things of that sort, then it could be of some consideration.

[Cyanara]

As the above posts highlight, it really depends on what you want out of a monitor.

 

If you're looking to play modern games on 4K, you'd probably also want G-Sync/FreeSync so that the lower frame rates on current video cards aren't as troublesome. Even the next gen video cards are likely to be only approx 25% faster going on past history.

 

There was a lot of assumption originally that 4K would downsample perfectly to 1080p as required, due to having exactly twice the height and width in pixels. Apparently that's not the case though. It's explained in the Display Technology FAQ / Mythbuster sticky at the top of the Monitors forum.

[jones177]

I go along with 1440 being more practical.

 

I bought my first 4k monitor in 2015. At the time I had a GTX 980. I could play modern games at 1440(2015 vintage). I could only play old games(2007 vintage) at 4k.

Things didn't change much with a GTX 980 ti. Frame rates got higher. It is only since I got a GTX 1080 ti that my 4k gaming rig is truly 4k.

 

I have owned 3 4k monitors. All of them are terrible displaying 1080p. All of them are excellent at 1440.

My son is using my 4k ASUS 28" monitor in the middle of his 2 ASUS 1440 27" monitors. He has it set to 1440 & the display looks the same as the 1440 monitors.

 

Any 4k monitor that is under 32" is not worth buying. I had to run windows at 1440 because I could not read the text on apps that don't scale. On some games I had to change the resolution to back 4k to play.

 

None of my 4k monitors have been G-Sync. I have never needed it.  

 

My advice is if you don't have a 1080 ti or 2x 980 ti/1070 don't bother with 4k. You will only get frustrated.

 

My main gaming monitor is a 3440 X 1440 60hz VA. There is'nt a big visual difference between it & 4k. Not like there is between 1440 & 1080. 

   

 

 

 

 

[Ezechiel]

Well, most of it has been said, but me and my brother upgraded to 4k TV with low input lag (around 12 to 17ms for mine and 20 for his). It's really great to look at films or play if you have the hardware which follow. As said, you'll need some 1080ti/Vega64 (1080ti is still better) or a sli/crossfire of lighter cards as said just above.

I also do some CAD design sometimes and it's a real pleasure, but you'll need a pretty good PC to use it or else it'll be a really bad experience.